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Pull perf event updates from Ingo Molnar:
"HW support updates:
- Add uncore support for Intel Comet Lake
- Add RAPL support for Hygon Fam18h
- Add Intel "IIO stack to PMON mapping" support on Skylake-SP CPUs,
which enumerates per device performance counters via sysfs and
enables the perf stat --iiostat functionality
- Add support for Intel "Architectural LBRs", which generalized the
model specific LBR hardware tracing feature into a
model-independent, architected performance monitoring feature.
Usage is mostly seamless to tooling, as the pre-existing LBR
features are kept, but there's a couple of advantages under the
hood, such as faster context-switching, faster LBR reads, cleaner
exposure of LBR features to guest kernels, etc.
( Since architectural LBRs are supported via XSAVE, there's related
changes to the x86 FPU code as well. )
ftrace/perf updates:
- Add support to add a text poke event to record changes to kernel
text (i.e. self-modifying code) in order to support tracers like
Intel PT decoding through jump labels, kprobes and ftrace
trampolines.
Misc cleanups, smaller fixes..."
* tag 'perf-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
perf/x86/rapl: Add Hygon Fam18h RAPL support
kprobes: Remove unnecessary module_mutex locking from kprobe_optimizer()
x86/perf: Fix a typo
perf: <linux/perf_event.h>: drop a duplicated word
perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support XSAVES for arch LBR read
perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support XSAVES/XRSTORS for LBR context switch
x86/fpu/xstate: Add helpers for LBR dynamic supervisor feature
x86/fpu/xstate: Support dynamic supervisor feature for LBR
x86/fpu: Use proper mask to replace full instruction mask
perf/x86: Remove task_ctx_size
perf/x86/intel/lbr: Create kmem_cache for the LBR context data
perf/core: Use kmem_cache to allocate the PMU specific data
perf/core: Factor out functions to allocate/free the task_ctx_data
perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support Architectural LBR
perf/x86/intel/lbr: Factor out intel_pmu_store_lbr
perf/x86/intel/lbr: Factor out rdlbr_all() and wrlbr_all()
perf/x86/intel/lbr: Mark the {rd,wr}lbr_{to,from} wrappers __always_inline
perf/x86/intel/lbr: Unify the stored format of LBR information
perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support LBR_CTL
perf/x86: Expose CPUID enumeration bits for arch LBR
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