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

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Kernel improvements:

   - watchdog driver improvements by Li Zefan
   - Power7 CPI stack events related improvements by Sukadev Bhattiprolu
   - event multiplexing via hrtimers and other improvements by Stephane
     Eranian
   - kernel stack use optimization by Andrew Hunter
   - AMD IOMMU uncore PMU support by Suravee Suthikulpanit
   - NMI handling rate-limits by Dave Hansen
   - various hw_breakpoint fixes by Oleg Nesterov
   - hw_breakpoint overflow period sampling and related signal handling
     fixes by Jiri Olsa
   - Intel Haswell PMU support by Andi Kleen

  Tooling improvements:

   - Reset SIGTERM handler in workload child process, fix from David
     Ahern.
   - Makefile reorganization, prep work for Kconfig patches, from Jiri
     Olsa.
   - Add automated make test suite, from Jiri Olsa.
   - Add --percent-limit option to 'top' and 'report', from Namhyung
     Kim.
   - Sorting improvements, from Namhyung Kim.
   - Expand definition of sysfs format attribute, from Michael Ellerman.

  Tooling fixes:

   - 'perf tests' fixes from Jiri Olsa.
   - Make Power7 CPI stack events available in sysfs, from Sukadev
     Bhattiprolu.
   - Handle death by SIGTERM in 'perf record', fix from David Ahern.
   - Fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message, from David Ahern.
   - Handle realloc failures in 'perf kvm', from David Ahern.
   - Fix divide by 0 in variance, from David Ahern.
   - Save parent pid in thread struct, from David Ahern.
   - Handle JITed code in shared memory, from Andi Kleen.
   - Fixes for 'perf diff', from Jiri Olsa.
   - Remove some unused struct members, from Jiri Olsa.
   - Add missing liblk.a dependency for python/perf.so, fix from Jiri
     Olsa.
   - Respect CROSS_COMPILE in liblk.a, from Rabin Vincent.
   - No need to do locking when adding hists in perf report, only 'top'
     needs that, from Namhyung Kim.
   - Fix alignment of symbol column in in the hists browser (top,
     report) when -v is given, from NAmhyung Kim.
   - Fix 'perf top' -E option behavior, from Namhyung Kim.
   - Fix bug in isupper() and islower(), from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
   - Fix compile errors in bp_signal 'perf test', from Sukadev
     Bhattiprolu.

  ... and more things"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (102 commits)
  perf/x86: Disable PEBS-LL in intel_pmu_pebs_disable()
  perf/x86: Fix shared register mutual exclusion enforcement
  perf/x86/intel: Support full width counting
  x86: Add NMI duration tracepoints
  perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow
  x86: Warn when NMI handlers take large amounts of time
  hw_breakpoint: Introduce "struct bp_cpuinfo"
  hw_breakpoint: Simplify *register_wide_hw_breakpoint()
  hw_breakpoint: Introduce cpumask_of_bp()
  hw_breakpoint: Simplify the "weight" usage in toggle_bp_slot() paths
  hw_breakpoint: Simplify list/idx mess in toggle_bp_slot() paths
  perf/x86/intel: Add mem-loads/stores support for Haswell
  perf/x86/intel: Support Haswell/v4 LBR format
  perf/x86/intel: Move NMI clearing to end of PMI handler
  perf/x86/intel: Add Haswell PEBS support
  perf/x86/intel: Add simple Haswell PMU support
  perf/x86/intel: Add Haswell PEBS record support
  perf/x86/intel: Fix sparse warning
  perf/x86/amd: AMD IOMMU Performance Counter PERF uncore PMU implementation
  perf/x86/amd: Add IOMMU Performance Counter resource management
  ...

1 files changed, 40 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index ccd42589e124..ab7d16efa96b 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -70,12 +70,12 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
 - shmall
 - shmmax                      [ sysv ipc ]
 - shmmni
-- softlockup_thresh
 - stop-a                      [ SPARC only ]
 - sysrq                       ==> Documentation/sysrq.txt
 - tainted
 - threads-max
 - unknown_nmi_panic
+- watchdog_thresh
 - version
 
 ==============================================================
@@ -427,6 +427,32 @@ This file shows up if CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW is enabled.
 
 ==============================================================
 
+perf_cpu_time_max_percent:
+
+Hints to the kernel how much CPU time it should be allowed to
+use to handle perf sampling events.  If the perf subsystem
+is informed that its samples are exceeding this limit, it
+will drop its sampling frequency to attempt to reduce its CPU
+usage.
+
+Some perf sampling happens in NMIs.  If these samples
+unexpectedly take too long to execute, the NMIs can become
+stacked up next to each other so much that nothing else is
+allowed to execute.
+
+0: disable the mechanism.  Do not monitor or correct perf's
+   sampling rate no matter how CPU time it takes.
+
+1-100: attempt to throttle perf's sample rate to this
+   percentage of CPU.  Note: the kernel calculates an
+   "expected" length of each sample event.  100 here means
+   100% of that expected length.  Even if this is set to
+   100, you may still see sample throttling if this
+   length is exceeded.  Set to 0 if you truly do not care
+   how much CPU is consumed.
+
+==============================================================
+
 
 pid_max:
 
@@ -604,15 +630,6 @@ without users and with a dead originative process will be destroyed.
 
 ==============================================================
 
-softlockup_thresh:
-
-This value can be used to lower the softlockup tolerance threshold.  The
-default threshold is 60 seconds.  If a cpu is locked up for 60 seconds,
-the kernel complains.  Valid values are 1-60 seconds.  Setting this
-tunable to zero will disable the softlockup detection altogether.
-
-==============================================================
-
 tainted:
 
 Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted.  Numeric values, which
@@ -648,3 +665,16 @@ that time, kernel debugging information is displayed on console.
 
 NMI switch that most IA32 servers have fires unknown NMI up, for
 example.  If a system hangs up, try pressing the NMI switch.
+
+==============================================================
+
+watchdog_thresh:
+
+This value can be used to control the frequency of hrtimer and NMI
+events and the soft and hard lockup thresholds. The default threshold
+is 10 seconds.
+
+The softlockup threshold is (2 * watchdog_thresh). Setting this
+tunable to zero will disable lockup detection altogether.
+
+==============================================================