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

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle on the kernel side:

   - rework kprobes blacklist handling (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - misc cleanups

  on the tooling side these areas were the main focus:

   - 'perf trace'     enhancements (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - 'perf bench'     enhancements (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - 'perf record'    enhancements (Alexey Budankov)

   - 'perf annotate'  enhancements (Jin Yao)

   - 'perf top'       enhancements (Jiri Olsa)

   - Intel hw tracing enhancements (Adrian Hunter)

   - ARM hw tracing   enhancements (Leo Yan, Mathieu Poirier)

   - ... plus lots of other enhancements, cleanups and fixes"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (171 commits)
  tools uapi asm: Update asm-generic/unistd.h copy
  perf symbols: Relax checks on perf-PID.map ownership
  perf trace: Wire up the fadvise 'advice' table generator
  perf beauty: Add generator for fadvise64's 'advice' arg constants
  tools headers uapi: Grab a copy of fadvise.h
  perf beauty mmap: Print mmap's 'offset' arg in hexadecimal
  perf beauty mmap: Print PROT_READ before PROT_EXEC to match strace output
  perf trace beauty: Beautify arch_prctl()'s arguments
  perf trace: When showing string prefixes show prefix + ??? for unknown entries
  perf trace: Move strarrays to beauty.h for further reuse
  perf beauty: Wire up the x86_arch prctl code table generator
  perf beauty: Add a string table generator for x86's 'arch_prctl' codes
  tools include arch: Grab a copy of x86's prctl.h
  perf trace: Show NULL when syscall pointer args are 0
  perf trace: Enclose the errno strings with ()
  perf augmented_raw_syscalls: Copy 'access' arg as well
  perf trace: Add alignment spaces after the closing parens
  perf trace beauty: Print O_RDONLY when (flags & O_ACCMODE) == 0
  perf trace: Allow asking for not suppressing common string prefixes
  perf trace: Add a prefix member to the strarray class
  ...

tools/include/linux/err.h

@@ -59,4 +59,17 @@ static inline int __must_check PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(__force const void *ptr)
 	else
 		return 0;
 }
+
+/**
+ * ERR_CAST - Explicitly cast an error-valued pointer to another pointer type
+ * @ptr: The pointer to cast.
+ *
+ * Explicitly cast an error-valued pointer to another pointer type in such a
+ * way as to make it clear that's what's going on.
+ */
+static inline void * __must_check ERR_CAST(__force const void *ptr)
+{
+	/* cast away the const */
+	return (void *) ptr;
+}
 #endif /* _LINUX_ERR_H */