Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core:

   - Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
     to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.

   - Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.

   - Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
     describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
     Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.

   - Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.

   - Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
     boot.

   - Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.

   - Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.

   - Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.

  Protocols:

   - Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).

   - Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
     on socket by socket basis.

   - Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.

   - Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
     manager.

   - IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
     collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).

   - Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).

   - ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.

   - Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.

   - Remove static WEP support.

   - Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
     reporting.

   - WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).

  BPF:

   - Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
     precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
     kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.

   - Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
     timestamp metadata.

   - Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
     better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
     metadata.

   - Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.

   - Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
     bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.

   - Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
     kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.

   - Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
     livepatch and BPF.

   - Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
     programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
     different time intervals.

   - Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.

   - Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.

   - Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.

   - Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
     memory accounting for container environments.

  Netfilter:

   - Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
     years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
     /proc interface installed by this target.

   - Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
     existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
     referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.

  Driver API:

   - Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
     IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.

   - Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.

   - Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.

   - Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
     Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
     shared medium Ethernet.

   - Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
     preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.

   - Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.

   - Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
     de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
     multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
     factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.

   - Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).

   - Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
     messages with notifications for debug.

   - Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.

   - Add support for per action HW stats in TC.

   - Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
     a specific point in the action chain).

   - Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
     modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
     Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
     using nl80211 interface instead.

   - Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
     error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
     including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
     CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.

  New hardware / drivers:

   - Ethernet:
      - nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
      - Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
      - Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
      - onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
      - Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
      - Amlogic gxl MDIO mux

   - WiFi:
      - RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
      - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)

   - CAN:
      - Renesas R-Car V4H

  Drivers:

   - Bluetooth:
      - Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Intel (1G, igc):
         - support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
      - Intel (100G, ice):
         - use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
         - multi-buffer XDP support
         - extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
         - implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
         - TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
         - more efficient crypto key management method
         - multi-port eswitch support
      - Netronome/Corigine:
         - add DCB IEEE support
         - support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
      - Freescale/NXP (enetc):
         - support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
         - improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
         - support MAC Merge layer
      - Other NICs:
         - sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
         - ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
         - bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
         - r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
         - cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
         - cpts: support pulse-per-second output
         - ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
         - usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
         - r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
         - amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
         - virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
         - virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
         - tsnep: XDP support

   - Ethernet high-speed switches:
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
         - add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
      - Microchip (sparx5):
         - separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
           the implicit rules always active
         - add support for egress DSCP rewrite
         - IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
         - IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
           etc.)
         - ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
         - support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
           8.6.5.1)

   - Ethernet embedded switches:
      - Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
         - add MAB (port auth) offload support
         - enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
      - NXP (ocelot):
         - support MAC Merge layer
         - support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
      - Microchip:
         - lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
         - lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
         - lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
         - lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
         - ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
      - other:
         - qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
         - rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy

   - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
      - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
      - STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
        on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
        BIOS to the firmware.

   - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
      - IPQ5018 support
      - Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
      - channel 177 support

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
      - per-PHY LED support
      - mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
      - Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
      - switch to using page pool allocator

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
      - support new version of Bluetooth co-existance

   - Mobile:
      - rmnet: support TX aggregation"

* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
  page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
  net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
  ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
  xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
  sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
  selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
  net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
  net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
  net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
  net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
  net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
  net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
  net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
  net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
  net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
  sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
  sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
  net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
  net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
  net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
  ...

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diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt
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+
+Performance Counters for Linux
+------------------------------
+
+Performance counters are special hardware registers available on most modern
+CPUs. These registers count the number of certain types of hw events: such
+as instructions executed, cachemisses suffered, or branches mis-predicted -
+without slowing down the kernel or applications. These registers can also
+trigger interrupts when a threshold number of events have passed - and can
+thus be used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
+
+The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of these
+hardware capabilities. It provides per task and per CPU counters, counter
+groups, and it provides event capabilities on top of those.  It
+provides "virtual" 64-bit counters, regardless of the width of the
+underlying hardware counters.
+
+Performance counters are accessed via special file descriptors.
+There's one file descriptor per virtual counter used.
+
+The special file descriptor is opened via the sys_perf_event_open()
+system call:
+
+   int sys_perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *hw_event_uptr,
+			     pid_t pid, int cpu, int group_fd,
+			     unsigned long flags);
+
+The syscall returns the new fd. The fd can be used via the normal
+VFS system calls: read() can be used to read the counter, fcntl()
+can be used to set the blocking mode, etc.
+
+Multiple counters can be kept open at a time, and the counters
+can be poll()ed.
+
+When creating a new counter fd, 'perf_event_attr' is:
+
+struct perf_event_attr {
+        /*
+         * The MSB of the config word signifies if the rest contains cpu
+         * specific (raw) counter configuration data, if unset, the next
+         * 7 bits are an event type and the rest of the bits are the event
+         * identifier.
+         */
+        __u64                   config;
+
+        __u64                   irq_period;
+        __u32                   record_type;
+        __u32                   read_format;
+
+        __u64                   disabled       :  1, /* off by default        */
+                                inherit        :  1, /* children inherit it   */
+                                pinned         :  1, /* must always be on PMU */
+                                exclusive      :  1, /* only group on PMU     */
+                                exclude_user   :  1, /* don't count user      */
+                                exclude_kernel :  1, /* ditto kernel          */
+                                exclude_hv     :  1, /* ditto hypervisor      */
+                                exclude_idle   :  1, /* don't count when idle */
+                                mmap           :  1, /* include mmap data     */
+                                munmap         :  1, /* include munmap data   */
+                                comm           :  1, /* include comm data     */
+
+                                __reserved_1   : 52;
+
+        __u32                   extra_config_len;
+        __u32                   wakeup_events;  /* wakeup every n events */
+
+        __u64                   __reserved_2;
+        __u64                   __reserved_3;
+};
+
+The 'config' field specifies what the counter should count.  It
+is divided into 3 bit-fields:
+
+raw_type: 1 bit   (most significant bit)	0x8000_0000_0000_0000
+type:	  7 bits  (next most significant)	0x7f00_0000_0000_0000
+event_id: 56 bits (least significant)		0x00ff_ffff_ffff_ffff
+
+If 'raw_type' is 1, then the counter will count a hardware event
+specified by the remaining 63 bits of event_config.  The encoding is
+machine-specific.
+
+If 'raw_type' is 0, then the 'type' field says what kind of counter
+this is, with the following encoding:
+
+enum perf_type_id {
+	PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE		= 0,
+	PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE		= 1,
+	PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT		= 2,
+};
+
+A counter of PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE will count the hardware event
+specified by 'event_id':
+
+/*
+ * Generalized performance counter event types, used by the hw_event.event_id
+ * parameter of the sys_perf_event_open() syscall:
+ */
+enum perf_hw_id {
+	/*
+	 * Common hardware events, generalized by the kernel:
+	 */
+	PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES		= 0,
+	PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS		= 1,
+	PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES		= 2,
+	PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES		= 3,
+	PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS	= 4,
+	PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES		= 5,
+	PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES		= 6,
+	PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND	= 7,
+	PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND	= 8,
+	PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES		= 9,
+};
+
+These are standardized types of events that work relatively uniformly
+on all CPUs that implement Performance Counters support under Linux,
+although there may be variations (e.g., different CPUs might count
+cache references and misses at different levels of the cache hierarchy).
+If a CPU is not able to count the selected event, then the system call
+will return -EINVAL.
+
+More hw_event_types are supported as well, but they are CPU-specific
+and accessed as raw events.  For example, to count "External bus
+cycles while bus lock signal asserted" events on Intel Core CPUs, pass
+in a 0x4064 event_id value and set hw_event.raw_type to 1.
+
+A counter of type PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE will count one of the available
+software events, selected by 'event_id':
+
+/*
+ * Special "software" counters provided by the kernel, even if the hardware
+ * does not support performance counters. These counters measure various
+ * physical and sw events of the kernel (and allow the profiling of them as
+ * well):
+ */
+enum perf_sw_ids {
+	PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK		= 0,
+	PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK	= 1,
+	PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS	= 2,
+	PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES	= 3,
+	PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS	= 4,
+	PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MIN	= 5,
+	PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MAJ	= 6,
+	PERF_COUNT_SW_ALIGNMENT_FAULTS	= 7,
+	PERF_COUNT_SW_EMULATION_FAULTS	= 8,
+};
+
+Counters of the type PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT are available when the ftrace event
+tracer is available, and event_id values can be obtained from
+/debug/tracing/events/*/*/id
+
+
+Counters come in two flavours: counting counters and sampling
+counters.  A "counting" counter is one that is used for counting the
+number of events that occur, and is characterised by having
+irq_period = 0.
+
+
+A read() on a counter returns the current value of the counter and possible
+additional values as specified by 'read_format', each value is a u64 (8 bytes)
+in size.
+
+/*
+ * Bits that can be set in hw_event.read_format to request that
+ * reads on the counter should return the indicated quantities,
+ * in increasing order of bit value, after the counter value.
+ */
+enum perf_event_read_format {
+        PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED  =  1,
+        PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING  =  2,
+};
+
+Using these additional values one can establish the overcommit ratio for a
+particular counter allowing one to take the round-robin scheduling effect
+into account.
+
+
+A "sampling" counter is one that is set up to generate an interrupt
+every N events, where N is given by 'irq_period'.  A sampling counter
+has irq_period > 0. The record_type controls what data is recorded on each
+interrupt:
+
+/*
+ * Bits that can be set in hw_event.record_type to request information
+ * in the overflow packets.
+ */
+enum perf_event_record_format {
+        PERF_RECORD_IP          = 1U << 0,
+        PERF_RECORD_TID         = 1U << 1,
+        PERF_RECORD_TIME        = 1U << 2,
+        PERF_RECORD_ADDR        = 1U << 3,
+        PERF_RECORD_GROUP       = 1U << 4,
+        PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN   = 1U << 5,
+};
+
+Such (and other) events will be recorded in a ring-buffer, which is
+available to user-space using mmap() (see below).
+
+The 'disabled' bit specifies whether the counter starts out disabled
+or enabled.  If it is initially disabled, it can be enabled by ioctl
+or prctl (see below).
+
+The 'inherit' bit, if set, specifies that this counter should count
+events on descendant tasks as well as the task specified.  This only
+applies to new descendents, not to any existing descendents at the
+time the counter is created (nor to any new descendents of existing
+descendents).
+
+The 'pinned' bit, if set, specifies that the counter should always be
+on the CPU if at all possible.  It only applies to hardware counters
+and only to group leaders.  If a pinned counter cannot be put onto the
+CPU (e.g. because there are not enough hardware counters or because of
+a conflict with some other event), then the counter goes into an
+'error' state, where reads return end-of-file (i.e. read() returns 0)
+until the counter is subsequently enabled or disabled.
+
+The 'exclusive' bit, if set, specifies that when this counter's group
+is on the CPU, it should be the only group using the CPU's counters.
+In future, this will allow sophisticated monitoring programs to supply
+extra configuration information via 'extra_config_len' to exploit
+advanced features of the CPU's Performance Monitor Unit (PMU) that are
+not otherwise accessible and that might disrupt other hardware
+counters.
+
+The 'exclude_user', 'exclude_kernel' and 'exclude_hv' bits provide a
+way to request that counting of events be restricted to times when the
+CPU is in user, kernel and/or hypervisor mode.
+
+Furthermore the 'exclude_host' and 'exclude_guest' bits provide a way
+to request counting of events restricted to guest and host contexts when
+using Linux as the hypervisor.
+
+The 'mmap' and 'munmap' bits allow recording of PROT_EXEC mmap/munmap
+operations, these can be used to relate userspace IP addresses to actual
+code, even after the mapping (or even the whole process) is gone,
+these events are recorded in the ring-buffer (see below).
+
+The 'comm' bit allows tracking of process comm data on process creation.
+This too is recorded in the ring-buffer (see below).
+
+The 'pid' parameter to the sys_perf_event_open() system call allows the
+counter to be specific to a task:
+
+ pid == 0: if the pid parameter is zero, the counter is attached to the
+ current task.
+
+ pid > 0: the counter is attached to a specific task (if the current task
+ has sufficient privilege to do so)
+
+ pid < 0: all tasks are counted (per cpu counters)
+
+The 'cpu' parameter allows a counter to be made specific to a CPU:
+
+ cpu >= 0: the counter is restricted to a specific CPU
+ cpu == -1: the counter counts on all CPUs
+
+(Note: the combination of 'pid == -1' and 'cpu == -1' is not valid.)
+
+A 'pid > 0' and 'cpu == -1' counter is a per task counter that counts
+events of that task and 'follows' that task to whatever CPU the task
+gets schedule to. Per task counters can be created by any user, for
+their own tasks.
+
+A 'pid == -1' and 'cpu == x' counter is a per CPU counter that counts
+all events on CPU-x. Per CPU counters need CAP_PERFMON or CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+privilege.
+
+The 'flags' parameter is currently unused and must be zero.
+
+The 'group_fd' parameter allows counter "groups" to be set up.  A
+counter group has one counter which is the group "leader".  The leader
+is created first, with group_fd = -1 in the sys_perf_event_open call
+that creates it.  The rest of the group members are created
+subsequently, with group_fd giving the fd of the group leader.
+(A single counter on its own is created with group_fd = -1 and is
+considered to be a group with only 1 member.)
+
+A counter group is scheduled onto the CPU as a unit, that is, it will
+only be put onto the CPU if all of the counters in the group can be
+put onto the CPU.  This means that the values of the member counters
+can be meaningfully compared, added, divided (to get ratios), etc.,
+with each other, since they have counted events for the same set of
+executed instructions.
+
+
+Like stated, asynchronous events, like counter overflow or PROT_EXEC mmap
+tracking are logged into a ring-buffer. This ring-buffer is created and
+accessed through mmap().
+
+The mmap size should be 1+2^n pages, where the first page is a meta-data page
+(struct perf_event_mmap_page) that contains various bits of information such
+as where the ring-buffer head is.
+
+/*
+ * Structure of the page that can be mapped via mmap
+ */
+struct perf_event_mmap_page {
+        __u32   version;                /* version number of this structure */
+        __u32   compat_version;         /* lowest version this is compat with */
+
+        /*
+         * Bits needed to read the hw counters in user-space.
+         *
+         *   u32 seq;
+         *   s64 count;
+         *
+         *   do {
+         *     seq = pc->lock;
+         *
+         *     barrier()
+         *     if (pc->index) {
+         *       count = pmc_read(pc->index - 1);
+         *       count += pc->offset;
+         *     } else
+         *       goto regular_read;
+         *
+         *     barrier();
+         *   } while (pc->lock != seq);
+         *
+         * NOTE: for obvious reason this only works on self-monitoring
+         *       processes.
+         */
+        __u32   lock;                   /* seqlock for synchronization */
+        __u32   index;                  /* hardware counter identifier */
+        __s64   offset;                 /* add to hardware counter value */
+
+        /*
+         * Control data for the mmap() data buffer.
+         *
+         * User-space reading this value should issue an rmb(), on SMP capable
+         * platforms, after reading this value -- see perf_event_wakeup().
+         */
+        __u32   data_head;              /* head in the data section */
+};
+
+NOTE: the hw-counter userspace bits are arch specific and are currently only
+      implemented on powerpc.
+
+The following 2^n pages are the ring-buffer which contains events of the form:
+
+#define PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL          (1 << 0)
+#define PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER            (1 << 1)
+#define PERF_RECORD_MISC_OVERFLOW        (1 << 2)
+
+struct perf_event_header {
+        __u32   type;
+        __u16   misc;
+        __u16   size;
+};
+
+enum perf_event_type {
+
+        /*
+         * The MMAP events record the PROT_EXEC mappings so that we can
+         * correlate userspace IPs to code. They have the following structure:
+         *
+         * struct {
+         *      struct perf_event_header        header;
+         *
+         *      u32                             pid, tid;
+         *      u64                             addr;
+         *      u64                             len;
+         *      u64                             pgoff;
+         *      char                            filename[];
+         * };
+         */
+        PERF_RECORD_MMAP                 = 1,
+        PERF_RECORD_MUNMAP               = 2,
+
+        /*
+         * struct {
+         *      struct perf_event_header        header;
+         *
+         *      u32                             pid, tid;
+         *      char                            comm[];
+         * };
+         */
+        PERF_RECORD_COMM                 = 3,
+
+        /*
+         * When header.misc & PERF_RECORD_MISC_OVERFLOW the event_type field
+         * will be PERF_RECORD_*
+         *
+         * struct {
+         *      struct perf_event_header        header;
+         *
+         *      { u64                   ip;       } && PERF_RECORD_IP
+         *      { u32                   pid, tid; } && PERF_RECORD_TID
+         *      { u64                   time;     } && PERF_RECORD_TIME
+         *      { u64                   addr;     } && PERF_RECORD_ADDR
+         *
+         *      { u64                   nr;
+         *        { u64 event, val; }   cnt[nr];  } && PERF_RECORD_GROUP
+         *
+         *      { u16                   nr,
+         *                              hv,
+         *                              kernel,
+         *                              user;
+         *        u64                   ips[nr];  } && PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN
+         * };
+         */
+};
+
+NOTE: PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN is arch specific and currently only implemented
+      on x86.
+
+Notification of new events is possible through poll()/select()/epoll() and
+fcntl() managing signals.
+
+Normally a notification is generated for every page filled, however one can
+additionally set perf_event_attr.wakeup_events to generate one every
+so many counter overflow events.
+
+Future work will include a splice() interface to the ring-buffer.
+
+
+Counters can be enabled and disabled in two ways: via ioctl and via
+prctl.  When a counter is disabled, it doesn't count or generate
+events but does continue to exist and maintain its count value.
+
+An individual counter can be enabled with
+
+	ioctl(fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0);
+
+or disabled with
+
+	ioctl(fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE, 0);
+
+For a counter group, pass PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP as the third argument.
+Enabling or disabling the leader of a group enables or disables the
+whole group; that is, while the group leader is disabled, none of the
+counters in the group will count.  Enabling or disabling a member of a
+group other than the leader only affects that counter - disabling an
+non-leader stops that counter from counting but doesn't affect any
+other counter.
+
+Additionally, non-inherited overflow counters can use
+
+	ioctl(fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_REFRESH, nr);
+
+to enable a counter for 'nr' events, after which it gets disabled again.
+
+A process can enable or disable all the counter groups that are
+attached to it, using prctl:
+
+	prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_ENABLE);
+
+	prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE);
+
+This applies to all counters on the current process, whether created
+by this process or by another, and doesn't affect any counters that
+this process has created on other processes.  It only enables or
+disables the group leaders, not any other members in the groups.
+
+
+Arch requirements
+-----------------
+
+If your architecture does not have hardware performance metrics, you can
+still use the generic software counters based on hrtimers for sampling.
+
+So to start with, in order to add HAVE_PERF_EVENTS to your Kconfig, you
+will need at least this:
+	- asm/perf_event.h - a basic stub will suffice at first
+	- support for atomic64 types (and associated helper functions)
+
+If your architecture does have hardware capabilities, you can override the
+weak stub hw_perf_event_init() to register hardware counters.
+
+Architectures that have d-cache aliassing issues, such as Sparc and ARM,
+should select PERF_USE_VMALLOC in order to avoid these for perf mmap().