linux/tools
Linus Torvalds b0c79f49c3 Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Introduce the ORC unwinder, which can be enabled via
   CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.

   The ORC unwinder is a lightweight, Linux kernel specific debuginfo
   implementation, which aims to be DWARF done right for unwinding.
   Objtool is used to generate the ORC unwinder tables during build, so
   the data format is flexible and kernel internal: there's no
   dependency on debuginfo created by an external toolchain.

   The ORC unwinder is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the
   (out of tree) DWARF unwinder - which is important for perf call graph
   profiling. It is also significantly simpler and is coded defensively:
   there has not been a single ORC related kernel crash so far, even
   with early versions. (knock on wood!)

   But the main advantage is that enabling the ORC unwinder allows
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS to be turned off - which speeds up the kernel
   measurably:

   With frame pointers disabled, GCC does not have to add frame pointer
   instrumentation code to every function in the kernel. The kernel's
   .text size decreases by about 3.2%, resulting in better cache
   utilization and fewer instructions executed, resulting in a broad
   kernel-wide speedup. Average speedup of system calls should be
   roughly in the 1-3% range - measurements by Mel Gorman [1] have shown
   a speedup of 5-10% for some function execution intense workloads.

   The main cost of the unwinder is that the unwinder data has to be
   stored in RAM: the memory cost is 2-4MB of RAM, depending on kernel
   config - which is a modest cost on modern x86 systems.

   Given how young the ORC unwinder code is it's not enabled by default
   - but given the performance advantages the plan is to eventually make
   it the default unwinder on x86.

   See Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for more details.

 - Remove lguest support: its intended role was that of a temporary
   proof of concept for virtualization, plus its removal will enable the
   reduction (removal) of the paravirt API as well, so Rusty agreed to
   its removal. (Juergen Gross)

 - Clean up and fix FSGS related functionality (Andy Lutomirski)

 - Clean up IO access APIs (Andy Shevchenko)

 - Enhance the symbol namespace (Jiri Slaby)

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug
  x86/entry/64: Use ENTRY() instead of ALIGN+GLOBAL for stub32_clone()
  x86/fpu/math-emu: Add ENDPROC to functions
  x86/boot/64: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_64()
  x86/boot/32: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_32()
  x86/lguest: Remove lguest support
  x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch()
  objtool: Fix objtool fallthrough detection with function padding
  x86/xen/64: Fix the reported SS and CS in SYSCALL
  objtool: Track DRAP separately from callee-saved registers
  objtool: Fix validate_branch() return codes
  x86: Clarify/fix no-op barriers for text_poke_bp()
  x86/switch_to/64: Rewrite FS/GS switching yet again to fix AMD CPUs
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBASE correctly in core dumps
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common
  x86/asm: Fix UNWIND_HINT_REGS macro for older binutils
  x86/asm/32: Fix regs_get_register() on segment registers
  x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries
  x86/asm/32: Remove a bunch of '& 0xffff' from pt_regs segment reads
  ...
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accounting
arch tools headers: Sync cpu features kernel ABI headers with tooling headers 2017-08-28 16:44:46 -03:00
build tools build tests: Don't hardcode gcc name 2017-08-28 16:44:44 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio gpio-hammer: fix make consumer_label suitable to work on gpio-nails 2017-01-26 16:29:09 +01:00
hv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-07-05 12:31:59 -07:00
iio iio: tools: generic_buffer: increase trigger length 2017-05-07 16:08:04 +01:00
include perf tools: Add support for printing new mem_info encodings 2017-08-22 12:30:25 -03:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: add '-f help' to get the available event list 2017-07-26 19:04:53 +02:00
laptop
leds tools/leds: Add led_hw_brightness_mon program 2017-02-14 22:20:23 +01:00
lib perf tools: Robustify detection of clang binary 2017-08-28 16:44:46 -03:00
net tools: bpf_jit_disasm: Handle large images. 2017-06-14 15:03:22 -04:00
nfsd
objtool objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug 2017-08-30 10:48:41 +02:00
pci tools: PCI: Add sample test script to invoke pcitest 2017-04-28 10:23:20 -05:00
pcmcia
perf perf symbols: Fix plt entry calculation for ARM and AARCH64 2017-08-29 11:41:27 -03:00
power ACPI updates for v4.13-rc1 2017-07-04 14:16:49 -07:00
scripts perf tools: Robustify detection of clang binary 2017-08-28 16:44:46 -03:00
spi spi: spidev_test: add option to continuously transfer data 2017-03-21 18:44:40 +00:00
testing Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-04 09:52:57 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb usb: changes for v4.13 merge window 2017-06-20 11:39:34 +08:00
virtio tools/virtio: fix spelling mistake: "wakeus" -> "wakeups" 2017-05-09 16:43:24 +03:00
vm tools/vm: add missing Makefile rules 2017-02-22 16:41:26 -08:00
Makefile x86/lguest: Remove lguest support 2017-08-24 09:57:28 +02:00