perf/core improvements and fixes:

User visible:
 
 - Finish merging initial SDT (Statically Defined Traces) support, see
   cset comments for details about how it all works (Masami Hiramatsu)
 
 - Support attaching eBPF programs to tracepoints (Wang Nan)
 
 Infrastructure:
 
 - Fix up BITS_PER_LONG setting (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
 
 - Add fallback from ELF_C_READ_MMAP to ELF_C_READ in objtool, fixing
   the build in libelf implementations lacking that elf_begin() cmd,
   such as Alpine Linux's (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
 
 - Avoid checking code drift on busybox's diff in objtool (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
 
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160713' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

User visible changes:

- Finish merging initial SDT (Statically Defined Traces) support, see
  cset comments for details about how it all works (Masami Hiramatsu)

- Support attaching eBPF programs to tracepoints (Wang Nan)

Infrastructure changes:

- Fix up BITS_PER_LONG setting (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Add fallback from ELF_C_READ_MMAP to ELF_C_READ in objtool, fixing
  the build in libelf implementations lacking that elf_begin() cmd,
  such as Alpine Linux's (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Avoid checking code drift on busybox's diff in objtool (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Ingo Molnar 2016-07-14 08:54:13 +02:00
commit b29c657469
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