From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 09:20:01 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.20-20180919' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux... 
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.20-20180919' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

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

perf test improvements:

- Add watchpoint entry (Ravi Bangoria)

Build fixes:

- Initialize perf_data_file fd field to fix building the CTF (trace format)
  converter with with gcc 4.8.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 (Jérémie Galarneau)

- Use -Wno-redundant-decls to build with PYTHON=python3 to
  build the python binding, fixing the build in systems such
  as Clear Linux (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Hardware tracing improvements:

- Suppress AUX/OVERWRITE records (Alexander Shishkin)

Infrastructure changes:

- Adopt PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO from the kernel and use it in
  the bpf-loader instead of open coded equivalent (Ding Xiang)

- Improve the event ordering code to make it clear and fix
  a bug related to freeing of events when using pipe mode
  from 'record' to 'inject' (Jiri Olsa)

- Some prep work to facilitate per-cpu threads to write
  record data to per-cpu files (Jiri Olsa)

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