Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo-5.5-20191216' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent

Pull perf/urgent fixes:

perf top:

 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

 - Do not bail out when perf_env__read_cpuid() returns ENOSYS, which
   has been reported happening on aarch64.

perf metricgroup:

  Kajol Jain:

  - Fix printing event names of metric group with multiple events

vendor events:

x86:

  Ravi Bangoria:

  - Fix Kernel_Utilization metric.

s390:

  Ed Maste:

  - Fix counter long description for DTLB1_GPAGE_WRITES and L1D_RO_EXCL_WRITES.

perf header:

  Michael Petlan:

  - Fix false warning when there are no duplicate cache entries

libtraceevent:

  Sudip Mukherjee:

  - Allow custom libdir path

API headers:

  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

  - Sync linux/kvm.h with the kernel sources.

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

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 09f759228e3f..3adcb39fa6f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -348,8 +348,7 @@ int __must_check kstrtoll(const char *s, unsigned int base, long long *res);
  * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
  *
  * Returns 0 on success, -ERANGE on overflow and -EINVAL on parsing error.
- * Used as a replacement for the obsolete simple_strtoull. Return code must
- * be checked.
+ * Used as a replacement for the simple_strtoull. Return code must be checked.
 */
 static inline int __must_check kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long *res)
 {
@@ -377,8 +376,7 @@ static inline int __must_check kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsign
  * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
  *
  * Returns 0 on success, -ERANGE on overflow and -EINVAL on parsing error.
- * Used as a replacement for the obsolete simple_strtoull. Return code must
- * be checked.
+ * Used as a replacement for the simple_strtoull. Return code must be checked.
  */
 static inline int __must_check kstrtol(const char *s, unsigned int base, long *res)
 {
@@ -454,7 +452,18 @@ static inline int __must_check kstrtos32_from_user(const char __user *s, size_t
 	return kstrtoint_from_user(s, count, base, res);
 }
 
-/* Obsolete, do not use.  Use kstrto<foo> instead */
+/*
+ * Use kstrto<foo> instead.
+ *
+ * NOTE: simple_strto<foo> does not check for the range overflow and,
+ *	 depending on the input, may give interesting results.
+ *
+ * Use these functions if and only if you cannot use kstrto<foo>, because
+ * the conversion ends on the first non-digit character, which may be far
+ * beyond the supported range. It might be useful to parse the strings like
+ * 10x50 or 12:21 without altering original string or temporary buffer in use.
+ * Keep in mind above caveat.
+ */
 
 extern unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
 extern long simple_strtol(const char *,char **,unsigned int);