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    Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 7e92daae
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull perf update from Ingo Molnar:
     "Lots of changes in this cycle as well, with hundreds of commits from
      over 30 contributors.  Most of the activity was on the tooling side.
    
      Higher level changes:
    
       - New 'perf kvm' analysis tool, from Xiao Guangrong.
    
       - New 'perf trace' system-wide tracing tool
    
       - uprobes fixes + cleanups from Oleg Nesterov.
    
       - Lots of patches to make perf build on Android out of box, from
         Irina Tirdea
    
       - Extend ftrace function tracing utility to be more dynamic for its
         users.  It allows for data passing to the callback functions, as
         well as reading regs as if a breakpoint were to trigger at function
         entry.
    
         The main goal of this patch series was to allow kprobes to use
         ftrace as an optimized probe point when a probe is placed on an
         ftrace nop.  With lots of help from Masami Hiramatsu, and going
         through lots of iterations, we finally came ...
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