Merge branch 'sparc-perf-events-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'sparc-perf-events-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel

Merge branch 'sparc-perf-events-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'sparc-perf-events-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
mm, perf_event: Make vmalloc_user() align base kernel virtual address to SHMLBA
perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing

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Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc3'

Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' into for-2.6.33

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core

Merge reason: Upcoming patch is dependent on a fix in perf/urgent.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing

Some architectures such as Sparc, ARM and MIPS (basically
everything with flush_dcache_page()) need to deal with dcache
aliases by carefully placin

perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing

Some architectures such as Sparc, ARM and MIPS (basically
everything with flush_dcache_page()) need to deal with dcache
aliases by carefully placing pages in both kernel and user maps.

These architectures typically have to use vmalloc_user() for this.

However, on other architectures, vmalloc() is not needed and has
the downsides of being more restricted and slower than regular
allocations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1254830228.21044.272.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core

Merge reason: Pick up latest fixes and update to latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge branch 'master' into next

Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/

Conflicts:
drivers/staging/Kconfig
drivers/staging/Makefile
drivers/staging/cpc-usb/TODO
drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc-usb_drv.c
drivers/st

Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/

Conflicts:
drivers/staging/Kconfig
drivers/staging/Makefile
drivers/staging/cpc-usb/TODO
drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc-usb_drv.c
drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc.h
drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc_int.h
drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpcusb.h

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Merge branch 'origin' into for-linus

Conflicts:
MAINTAINERS

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent

Merge reason: Queueing up dependent early-printk fix.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge commit 'linus/master' into tracing/kprobes

Conflicts:
kernel/trace/Makefile
kernel/trace/trace.h
kernel/trace/trace_event_types.h
kernel/trace/trace_export.c

Merge reason:
Sync with late

Merge commit 'linus/master' into tracing/kprobes

Conflicts:
kernel/trace/Makefile
kernel/trace/trace.h
kernel/trace/trace_event_types.h
kernel/trace/trace_export.c

Merge reason:
Sync with latest significant tracing core changes.

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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:
drivers/power/wm97xx_battery.c

Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip

Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Tidy up after the big rename
perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_event
perf_counter: Rename list_entry -> group_entry, counter_list -> group_list

Manually resolved some fairly trivial conflicts with the tracing tree in
include/trace/ftrace.h and kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c.

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perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events

Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
ini

perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events

Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

sed -i \
-e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
-e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
-e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
-e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
-e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
-e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
$FILES

for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
mv $N $M
done

FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

sed -i \
-e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
-e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
-e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
-e 's/counter/event/g' \
-e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
$FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Merge branch 'dmaengine' into async-tx-next

Conflicts:
crypto/async_tx/async_xor.c
drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.h
drivers/dma/ioat/pci.c
drivers/md/raid5.c

Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc1' into dmaengine

Merge branch 'topic/asoc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 into upstream/wm8711

Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' into mxc

Conflicts:
sound/soc/Makefile

Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc4' into next

Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc3'; commit 'tip/oprofile' into oprofile/core

Conflicts:
drivers/oprofile/oprofile_stats.c
drivers/usb/otg/Kconfig
drivers/usb/otg/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <

Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc3'; commit 'tip/oprofile' into oprofile/core

Conflicts:
drivers/oprofile/oprofile_stats.c
drivers/usb/otg/Kconfig
drivers/usb/otg/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

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Merge branch 'master' into next

Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints

Conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
arch/x86/power/cpu.c
arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c
kernel/Makefile

Semantic conflict:
arch/x86/k

Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints

Conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
arch/x86/power/cpu.c
arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c
kernel/Makefile

Semantic conflict:
arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, move from put_cpu_no_sched() to
put_cpu() in arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent

Merge reason: pull in latest to fix a bug in it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge commit 'linus/master' into HEAD

Conflicts:
MAINTAINERS

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>