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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-06 20:02:58 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-06 20:02:58 +0400
commit35b740e4662ef386f0c60e1b60aaf5b44db9914c (patch)
tree502a8f9499bc1b4cb3300d666dab2d01a1921224 /Documentation
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parent9e183426bfb52bb44bf3c443d6587e4d02478603 (diff)
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Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (106 commits) perf kvm: Fix copy & paste error in description perf script: Kill script_spec__delete perf top: Fix a memory leak perf stat: Introduce get_ratio_color() helper perf session: Remove impossible condition check perf tools: Fix feature-bits rework fallout, remove unused variable perf script: Add generic perl handler to process events perf tools: Use for_each_set_bit() to iterate over feature flags perf tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature section perf report: Accept fifos as input file perf tools: Moving code in some files perf tools: Fix out-of-bound access to struct perf_session perf tools: Continue processing header on unknown features perf tools: Improve macros for struct feature_ops perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two. perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM. perf tools: Fix truncated annotation perf script: look up thread using tid instead of pid perf tools: Look up thread names for system wide profiling perf tools: Fix comm for processes with named threads ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/events.txt2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 81c287fad79d..0293fc8daca3 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1885,6 +1885,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
CPU specific event set.
+ timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
+ timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
+ for generic hr timer mode)
+ [s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
+ (report cpu_type "timer")
oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
process, but there is a small probability of
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.txt b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
index b510564aac7e..bb24c2a0e870 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/events.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
@@ -191,8 +191,6 @@ And for string fields they are:
Currently, only exact string matches are supported.
-Currently, the maximum number of predicates in a filter is 16.
-
5.2 Setting filters
-------------------