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

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main kernel side changes in this cycle were:

   - Various Intel-PT updates and optimizations (Alexander Shishkin)

   - Prohibit kprobes on Xen/KVM emulate prefixes (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - Add support for LSM and SELinux checks to control access to the
     perf syscall (Joel Fernandes)

   - Misc other changes, optimizations, fixes and cleanups - see the
     shortlog for details.

  There were numerous tooling changes as well - 254 non-merge commits.
  Here are the main changes - too many to list in detail:

   - Enhancements to core tooling infrastructure, perf.data, libperf,
     libtraceevent, event parsing, vendor events, Intel PT, callchains,
     BPF support and instruction decoding.

   - There were updates to the following tools:

        perf annotate
        perf diff
        perf inject
        perf kvm
        perf list
        perf maps
        perf parse
        perf probe
        perf record
        perf report
        perf script
        perf stat
        perf test
        perf trace

   - And a lot of other changes: please see the shortlog and Git log for
     more details"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (279 commits)
  perf parse: Fix potential memory leak when handling tracepoint errors
  perf probe: Fix spelling mistake "addrees" -> "address"
  libtraceevent: Fix memory leakage in copy_filter_type
  libtraceevent: Fix header installation
  perf intel-bts: Does not support AUX area sampling
  perf intel-pt: Add support for decoding AUX area samples
  perf intel-pt: Add support for recording AUX area samples
  perf pmu: When using default config, record which bits of config were changed by the user
  perf auxtrace: Add support for queuing AUX area samples
  perf session: Add facility to peek at all events
  perf auxtrace: Add support for dumping AUX area samples
  perf inject: Cut AUX area samples
  perf record: Add aux-sample-size config term
  perf record: Add support for AUX area sampling
  perf auxtrace: Add support for AUX area sample recording
  perf auxtrace: Move perf_evsel__find_pmu()
  perf record: Add a function to test for kernel support for AUX area sampling
  perf tools: Add kernel AUX area sampling definitions
  perf/core: Make the mlock accounting simple again
  perf report: Jump to symbol source view from total cycles view
  ...

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
index d5cc15e651cf..f50ca0fef0a4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
@@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ OPTIONS
         diff.compute config option.  See COMPARISON METHODS section for
         more info.
 
+--cycles-hist::
+	Report a histogram and the standard deviation for cycles data.
+	It can help us to judge if the reported cycles data is noisy or
+	not. This option should be used with '-c cycles'.
+
 -p::
 --period::
         Show period values for both compared hist entries.