perf tools: Do not include PERF-VERSION-FILE to Makefile

When make runs it tries to update the Makefile rules by reading all of
included Makefiles. During the perf build it checks PERF-VERSION-FILE

perf tools: Do not include PERF-VERSION-FILE to Makefile

When make runs it tries to update the Makefile rules by reading all of
included Makefiles. During the perf build it checks PERF-VERSION-FILE
to get the current version number. But it triggers Makefile update so
that make runs again with the update Makefile and, in turn, users will
see duplicate CHK message on the second path.

Running make with -d option for debugging tells me this:

GNU Make 3.82
Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Reading makefile `Makefile'...
Reading makefile `../scripts/Makefile.include' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/utilities.mak' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `PERF-VERSION-FILE' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/feature-tests.mak' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
CHK -fstack-protector-all
CHK -Wstack-protector
CHK -Wvolatile-register-var
...
Updating makefiles....
Considering target file `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
Must remake target `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
Invoking recipe from Makefile:52 to update target `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
Putting child 0x14037a0 (PERF-VERSION-FILE) PID 31925 on the chain.
Live child 0x14037a0 (PERF-VERSION-FILE) PID 31925
PERF_VERSION = 3.8.rc3.gf751db6
Reaping winning child 0x14037a0 PID 31925
Removing child 0x14037a0 PID 31925 from chain.
Successfully remade target file `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
...
Re-executing[1]: make -d <------------ here
GNU Make 3.82
Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Reading makefile `Makefile'...
Reading makefile `../scripts/Makefile.include' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/utilities.mak' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `PERF-VERSION-FILE' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/feature-tests.mak' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
CHK -fstack-protector-all
CHK -Wstack-protector
CHK -Wvolatile-register-var
...

Actually PERF-VERSION-FILE is used only for perf.c to #define
PERF_VERSION macro. So make it like a C header file and include it
during compiling the perf.c file will remove the need of being
included into Makefile. Hench no need to update the Makefile and no
CHK lines anymore.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358337594-10916-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge tag 'v3.8-rc4' into irq/core

Merge Linux 3.8-rc4 before pulling in new commits - we were on an old v3.7 base.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v3.8-rc3' into v4l_for_linus

Linux 3.8-rc3

* tag 'v3.8-rc3': (11110 commits)
Linux 3.8-rc3
mm: reinstante dropped pmd_trans_splitting() check
cred: Remove tgcred pointer from struc

Merge tag 'v3.8-rc3' into v4l_for_linus

Linux 3.8-rc3

* tag 'v3.8-rc3': (11110 commits)
Linux 3.8-rc3
mm: reinstante dropped pmd_trans_splitting() check
cred: Remove tgcred pointer from struct cred
drm/ttm: fix fence locking in ttm_buffer_object_transfer
ARM: clps711x: Fix bad merge of clockevents setup
ARM: highbank: save and restore L2 cache and GIC on suspend
ARM: highbank: add a power request clear
ARM: highbank: fix secondary boot and hotplug
ARM: highbank: fix typos with hignbank in power request functions
ARM: dts: fix highbank cpu mpidr values
ARM: dts: add device_type prop to cpu nodes on Calxeda platforms
drm/prime: drop reference on imported dma-buf come from gem
xen/netfront: improve truesize tracking
ARM: mx5: Fix MX53 flexcan2 clock
ARM: OMAP2+: am33xx-hwmod: Fix wrongly terminated am33xx_usbss_mpu_irqs array
sctp: fix Kconfig bug in default cookie hmac selection
EDAC: Cleanup device deregistering path
EDAC: Fix EDAC Kconfig menu
EDAC: Fix kernel panic on module unloading
ALSA: hda - add mute LED for HP Pavilion 17 (Realtek codec)
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Merge tag 'v3.8-rc2' into next

Sync to Linus' tree.

Linux 3.8-rc2

Merge tag 'v3.8-rc1' into staging/for_v3.9

Linux 3.8-rc1

* tag 'v3.8-rc1': (10696 commits)
Linux 3.8-rc1
Revert "nfsd: warn on odd reply state in nfsd_vfs_read"
ARM: dts: fix duplicated build

Merge tag 'v3.8-rc1' into staging/for_v3.9

Linux 3.8-rc1

* tag 'v3.8-rc1': (10696 commits)
Linux 3.8-rc1
Revert "nfsd: warn on odd reply state in nfsd_vfs_read"
ARM: dts: fix duplicated build target and alphabetical sort out for exynos
dm stripe: add WRITE SAME support
dm: remove map_info
dm snapshot: do not use map_context
dm thin: dont use map_context
dm raid1: dont use map_context
dm flakey: dont use map_context
dm raid1: rename read_record to bio_record
dm: move target request nr to dm_target_io
dm snapshot: use per_bio_data
dm verity: use per_bio_data
dm raid1: use per_bio_data
dm: introduce per_bio_data
dm kcopyd: add WRITE SAME support to dm_kcopyd_zero
dm linear: add WRITE SAME support
dm: add WRITE SAME support
dm: prepare to support WRITE SAME
dm ioctl: use kmalloc if possible
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Conflicts:
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux

The merge is merely to fix conflicts before sending a pull request.

Conflicts:
drivers/power/ab8500_btemp.c
drivers/power/ab8500

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux

The merge is merely to fix conflicts before sending a pull request.

Conflicts:
drivers/power/ab8500_btemp.c
drivers/power/ab8500_charger.c
drivers/power/ab8500_fg.c
drivers/power/abx500_chargalg.c
drivers/power/max8925_power.c

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>

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

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Lots of activity:

211 files changed, 8328 insertions(+), 4116 de

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

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Lots of activity:

211 files changed, 8328 insertions(+), 4116 deletions(-)

most of it on the tooling side.

Main changes:

* ftrace enhancements and fixes from Steve Rostedt.

* uprobes fixes, cleanups and preparation for the ARM port from Oleg
Nesterov.

* UAPI fixes, from David Howels - prepares the arch/x86 UAPI
transition

* Separate perf tests into multiple objects, one per test, from Jiri
Olsa.

* Make hardware event translations available in sysfs, from Jiri
Olsa.

* Fixes to /proc/pid/maps parsing, preparatory to supporting data
maps, from Namhyung Kim

* Implement ui_progress for GTK, from Namhyung Kim

* Add framework for automated perf_event_attr tests, where tools with
different command line options will be run from a 'perf test', via
python glue, and the perf syscall will be intercepted to verify
that the perf_event_attr fields set by the tool are those expected,
from Jiri Olsa

* Add a 'link' method for hists, so that we can have the leader with
buckets for all the entries in all the hists. This new method is
now used in the default 'diff' output, making the sum of the
'baseline' column be 100%, eliminating blind spots.

* libtraceevent fixes for compiler warnings trying to make perf it
build on some distros, like fedora 14, 32-bit, some of the warnings
really pointed to real bugs.

* Add a browser for 'perf script' and make it available from the
report and annotate browsers. It does filtering to find the
scripts that handle events found in the perf.data file used. From
Feng Tang

* perf inject changes to allow showing where a task sleeps, from
Andrew Vagin.

* Makefile improvements from Namhyung Kim.

* Add --pre and --post command hooks in 'stat', from Peter Zijlstra.

* Don't stop synthesizing threads when one vanishes, this is for the
existing threads when we start a tool like trace.

* Use sched:sched_stat_runtime to provide a thread summary, this
produces the same output as the 'trace summary' subcommand of
tglx's original "trace" tool.

* Support interrupted syscalls in 'trace'

* Add an event duration column and filter in 'trace'.

* There are references to the man pages in some tools, so try to
build Documentation when installing, warning the user if that is
not possible, from Borislav Petkov.

* Give user better message if precise is not supported, from David
Ahern.

* Try to find cross-built objdump path by using the session
environment information in the perf.data file header, from Irina
Tirdea, original patch and idea by Namhyung Kim.

* Diplays more output on features check for make V=1, so that one can
figure out what is happening by looking at gcc output, etc. From
Jiri Olsa.

* Add on_exit implementation for systems without one, e.g. Android,
from Bernhard Rosenkraenzer.

* Only process events for vcpus of interest, helps handling large
number of events, from David Ahern.

* Cross compilation fixes for Android, from Irina Tirdea.

* Add documentation on compiling for Android, from Irina Tirdea.

* perf diff improvements from Jiri Olsa.

* Target (task/user/cpu/syswide) handling improvements, from Namhyung
Kim.

* Add support in 'trace' for tracing workload given by command line,
from Namhyung Kim.

* ... and much more."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (194 commits)
uprobes: Use percpu_rw_semaphore to fix register/unregister vs dup_mmap() race
perf evsel: Introduce is_group_member method
perf powerpc: Use uapi/unistd.h to fix build error
tools: Pass the target in descend
tools: Honour the O= flag when tool build called from a higher Makefile
tools: Define a Makefile function to do subdir processing
perf ui: Always compile browser setup code
perf ui: Add ui_progress__finish()
perf ui gtk: Implement ui_progress functions
perf ui: Introduce generic ui_progress helper
perf ui tui: Move progress.c under ui/tui directory
perf tools: Add basic event modifier sanity check
perf tools: Omit group members from perf_evlist__disable/enable
perf tools: Ensure single disable call per event in record comand
perf tools: Fix 'disabled' attribute config for record command
perf tools: Fix attributes for '{}' defined event groups
perf tools: Use sscanf for parsing /proc/pid/maps
perf tools: Add gtk.<command> config option for launching GTK browser
perf tools: Fix compile error on NO_NEWT=1 build
perf hists: Initialize all of he->stat with zeroes
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

* Don't show scripts

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

* Don't show scripts menu for 'perf top', fix from Feng Tang

* Add framework for automated perf_event_attr tests, where tools with
different command line options will be run from a 'perf test', via
python glue, and the perf syscall will be intercepted to verify that
the perf_event_attr fields set by the tool are those expected,
from Jiri Olsa

* Use normalized arch name for searching objdump path. This fixes cases
where the system's objdump (e.g. x86_64) supports the architecture in
the perf.data file (e.g. i686), but is not the same,
fix from Namhyung Kim.

* Postpone objdump check until annotation requested, from Namhyung Kim.

* Add a 'link' method for hists, so that we can have the leader with
buckets for all the entries in all the hists. This new method
is now used in the default 'diff' output, making the sum of the 'baseline'
column be 100%, eliminating blind spots. Now we need to use this
for 'diff' with > 2 perf.data files and for multi event 'report' and
'annotate'.

* libtraceevent fixes for compiler warnings trying to make perf it build
on some distros, like fedora 14, 32-bit, some of the warnings really
pointed to real bugs.

* Remove temp dir on failure in 'perf test', fix from Jiri Olsa.

* Fixes for handling data, stack mmaps, from Namhyung Kim.

* Fix live annotation bug related to recent objdump lookup patches, from
Namhyung Kim

* Don't try to follow jump target on PLT symbols in the annotation browser,
fix from Namhyung Kim.

* Fix leak on hist_entry delete, from Namhyung Kim.

* Fix a CPU_ALLOC related build error on builtin-test, from Zheng Liu.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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perf tools: Handle --version string generation on machines without git

If git is installed we'll have a 'perf --version' output of this form:

$ make -j8 -C tools/perf/ O=/home/acme/git/build/perf i

perf tools: Handle --version string generation on machines without git

If git is installed we'll have a 'perf --version' output of this form:

$ make -j8 -C tools/perf/ O=/home/acme/git/build/perf install
$ perf --version
perf version 3.7.rc3.g3afad6

Now on a machine without git installed:

$ mv /home/acme/bin/git /home/acme/bin/git.OFF
$ make -j8 -C tools/perf/ O=/home/acme/git/build/perf install
$ perf --version
perf version 3.7.0-rc2

That is, no error message due to git not being installed will appear on the
screen and instead the version string in the top level Makefile will be
used.

Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-am6yp6phvxyjmyndxogpunjv@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools: Further speed up the perf build

There's another source of overhead in the perf version string generator:

git update-index -q --refresh

... which will iterate the whole checked out t

perf tools: Further speed up the perf build

There's another source of overhead in the perf version string generator:

git update-index -q --refresh

... which will iterate the whole checked out tree. This can be pretty
slow on NFS volumes, but takes some time even with local SSD disks and a
fully cached kernel tree:

$ perf stat --null --repeat 3 --pre "rm -f PERF-VERSION-FILE" util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
PERF_VERSION = 3.7.rc3.g5399b3b.dirty
PERF_VERSION = 3.7.rc3.g5399b3b.dirty
PERF_VERSION = 3.7.rc3.g5399b3b.dirty

Performance counter stats for 'util/PERF-VERSION-GEN' (3 runs):

0.306999221 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.56% )

So remove the .dirty differentiator as well - it adds little information
because locally patched git trees are common, but seldom are the perf
tools modified.

So a lot of version strings are reported as 'dirty' while in fact they
are pristine perf builds. For example 99% of my perf builds are not
patched but the kernel tree is slightly patched, which adds the .dirty
tag.

Eliminating that tag speeds up version generation by another order of
magnitude:

$ perf stat --null --repeat 3 --sync --pre "rm -f PERF-VERSION-FILE" util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
PERF_VERSION = 3.7.rc3.g4b0bd3
PERF_VERSION = 3.7.rc3.g4b0bd3
PERF_VERSION = 3.7.rc3.g4b0bd3

Performance counter stats for 'util/PERF-VERSION-GEN' (3 runs):

0.021270923 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.94% )

(Also clean up some of the comments around this code.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121030085441.GC8245@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools: Speed up the perf build time by simplifying the perf --version string generation

Building perf is pretty slow on trees that have a lot of commits
relative to the nearest Git tag. This sl

perf tools: Speed up the perf build time by simplifying the perf --version string generation

Building perf is pretty slow on trees that have a lot of commits
relative to the nearest Git tag. This slowness manifests itself during
version string generation:

$ perf stat --null --repeat 3 --sync --pre "rm -f PERF-VERSION-FILE" util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
PERF_VERSION = 3.7.rc3.1458.g5399b3b
PERF_VERSION = 3.7.rc3.1458.g5399b3b
PERF_VERSION = 3.7.rc3.1458.g5399b3b

Performance counter stats for 'util/PERF-VERSION-GEN' (3 runs):

2.857503976 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.22% )

The build can be even slower than that, when one over NFS volumes.

The reason for the slowness is that util/PERF-VERSION-GEN uses "git
describe" to generate the string, which has to count the "number of
commits distance" from the nearest tag - the ".1458." count in the
output above. For that Git had to extract and decompress 1458 Git
objects, which takes time and bandwidth.

But this "number of commits" value is mostly irrelevant in practice. We
either want to know an approximate tag name, or we want to know the
precise sha1.

So this patch simplifies the version string to:

PERF_VERSION = 3.7.rc3.g5399b3b.dirty

which speeds up the version string generation script by an order of
magnitude:

$ perf stat --null --repeat 3 --sync --pre "rm -f PERF-VERSION-FILE" util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
PERF_VERSION = 3.7.rc3.g5399b3b.dirty
PERF_VERSION = 3.7.rc3.g5399b3b.dirty
PERF_VERSION = 3.7.rc3.g5399b3b.dirty

Performance counter stats for 'util/PERF-VERSION-GEN' (3 runs):

0.307633559 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.84% )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121030084600.GB8245@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'wireless-next/master' into iwlwifi-next

Merge tag 'v3.6-rc1' into staging/for_v3.6

Linux 3.6-rc1

* tag 'v3.6-rc1': (18733 commits)
Linux 3.6-rc1
mm: remove node_start_pfn checking in new WARN_ON for now
ARM: mmp: add missing irqs.h

Merge tag 'v3.6-rc1' into staging/for_v3.6

Linux 3.6-rc1

* tag 'v3.6-rc1': (18733 commits)
Linux 3.6-rc1
mm: remove node_start_pfn checking in new WARN_ON for now
ARM: mmp: add missing irqs.h
arm: mvebu: fix typo in .dtsi comment for Armada XP SoCs
ARM: PRIMA2: delete redundant codes to restore LATCHED when timer resumes
libceph: fix crypto key null deref, memory leak
ceph: simplify+fix atomic_open
sh: explicitly include sh_dma.h in setup-sh7722.c
um: Add arch/x86/um to MAINTAINERS
um: pass siginfo to guest process
um: fix ubd_file_size for read-only files
md/dm-raid: DM_RAID should select MD_RAID10
md/raid1: submit IO from originating thread instead of md thread.
raid5: raid5d handle stripe in batch way
raid5: make_request use batch stripe release
um: pull interrupt_end() into userspace()
um: split syscall_trace(), pass pt_regs to it
um: switch UPT_SET_RETURN_VALUE and regs_return_value to pt_regs
MIPS: Loongson 2: Sort out clock managment.
locks: remove unused lm_release_private
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'wireless/master' into mac80211

Merge branch 'for-jens' of git://git.drbd.org/linux-drbd into for-3.6/drivers

Merge branch 'drm-next' of ../main_line/linux-drm into dave-drm-next

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Merge branches 'regulator-core', 'regulator-dt' and 'regulator-dummy' into regulator-next

Merge branches 'regmap-core', 'regmap-irq' and 'regmap-page' into regmap-next

Conflicts (trivial context stuff):
drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
include/linux/regmap.h

Merge branch 'topic/hda' into for-next

This is a large chunk merge for 3.6 HD-audio things

Merge branch 'pl022' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-stericsson into spi-next

Merge tag 'v3.5-rc6' into x86/mce

Merge Linux 3.5-rc6 before merging more code.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge commit 'v3.5-rc5' into next

Merge branch 'topic/hda-beep' into topic/hda

Merge tag 'v3.5-rc4' into drm-intel-next-queued

I want to merge the "no more fake agp on gen6+" patches into
drm-intel-next (well, the last pieces). But a patch in 3.5-rc4 also
adds a new use of dev

Merge tag 'v3.5-rc4' into drm-intel-next-queued

I want to merge the "no more fake agp on gen6+" patches into
drm-intel-next (well, the last pieces). But a patch in 3.5-rc4 also
adds a new use of dev->agp. Hence the backmarge to sort this out, for
otherwise drm-intel-next merged into Linus' tree would conflict in the
relevant code, things would compile but nicely OOPS at driver load :(

Conflicts in this merge are just simple cases of "both branches
changed/added lines at the same place". The only tricky part is to
keep the order correct wrt the unwind code in case of errors in
intel_ringbuffer.c (and the MI_DISPLAY_FLIP #defines in i915_reg.h
together, obviously).

Conflicts:
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c

Signed-Off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

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