mirror of
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
synced 2026-05-07 19:49:33 -04:00
82119cbe8e
Pull perf/core improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: User visible changes: - Beautifiers for the 'cmd' arg of several ioctl types, including: sound, DRM, KVM, vhost virtio and perf_events. This was done by using scripts that extract the information from the UAPI headers, generating string tables that are then used in the 'perf trace' syscall argument ioctl beautifier. More work needed to further use it, for instance, to use the _IOC_DIR value where it is used sanely to suppress the third argument, to set formatters for non-pointer values and ultimately for using eBPF + pahole-like code to collect + beautify structs in the third arg. Using the current scheme of having tools/ copies of kernel headers we'll make sure tooling stays working when changes are made to the kernel ABI headers and will be notified when they get changed, reducing the time for 'perf trace' to support new ABIs and allowing the tools/perf/ codebase to have the definitions it needs to build in dozens of distros/versions, as routinely tested using containers for, at this time, 47 environments. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Infrastructure changes: - Clarify header version warning message (Ingo Molnar) - Sync kernel ABI headers with tooling headers (Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.