Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (106 commits)
  perf kvm: Fix copy & paste error in description
  perf script: Kill script_spec__delete
  perf top: Fix a memory leak
  perf stat: Introduce get_ratio_color() helper
  perf session: Remove impossible condition check
  perf tools: Fix feature-bits rework fallout, remove unused variable
  perf script: Add generic perl handler to process events
  perf tools: Use for_each_set_bit() to iterate over feature flags
  perf tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature section
  perf report: Accept fifos as input file
  perf tools: Moving code in some files
  perf tools: Fix out-of-bound access to struct perf_session
  perf tools: Continue processing header on unknown features
  perf tools: Improve macros for struct feature_ops
  perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two.
  perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM.
  perf tools: Fix truncated annotation
  perf script: look up thread using tid instead of pid
  perf tools: Look up thread names for system wide profiling
  perf tools: Fix comm for processes with named threads
  ...

Author: torvalds

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -1885,6 +1885,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
 				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
 				CPU specific event set.
+			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
+				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
+				for generic hr timer mode)
+				[s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
+                                (report cpu_type "timer")
 
 	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
 			process, but there is a small probability of

Documentation/trace/events.txt

@@ -191,8 +191,6 @@ And for string fields they are:
 
 Currently, only exact string matches are supported.
 
-Currently, the maximum number of predicates in a filter is 16.
-
 5.2 Setting filters
 -------------------
 

arch/Kconfig

@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
 config HAVE_OPROFILE
 	bool
 
+config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
+	def_bool y
+	depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
+
 config KPROBES
 	bool "Kprobes"
 	depends on MODULES

arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler.c

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <asm/irq.h>
 
 #include "hwsampler.h"
+#include "op_counter.h"
 
 #define MAX_NUM_SDB 511
 #define MIN_NUM_SDB 1
@@ -896,21 +897,25 @@ static void add_samples_to_oprofile(unsigned int cpu, unsigned long *sdbt,
 		if (sample_data_ptr->P == 1) {
 			/* userspace sample */
 			unsigned int pid = sample_data_ptr->prim_asn;
+			if (!counter_config.user)
+				goto skip_sample;
 			rcu_read_lock();
 			tsk = pid_task(find_vpid(pid), PIDTYPE_PID);
 			if (tsk)
 				regs = task_pt_regs(tsk);
 			rcu_read_unlock();
 		} else {
 			/* kernelspace sample */
+			if (!counter_config.kernel)
+				goto skip_sample;
 			regs = task_pt_regs(current);
 		}
 
 		mutex_lock(&hws_sem);
 		oprofile_add_ext_hw_sample(sample_data_ptr->ia, regs, 0,
 				!sample_data_ptr->P, tsk);
 		mutex_unlock(&hws_sem);
-
+	skip_sample:
 		sample_data_ptr++;
 	}
 }