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

Pull perf updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Kernel:
   - Improve kallsyms coverage
   - Add x86 entry trampolines to kcore
   - Fix ARM SPE handling
   - Correct PPC event post processing

  Tools:
   - Make the build system more robust
   - Small fixes and enhancements all over the place
   - Update kernel ABI header copies
   - Preparatory work for converting libtraceevnt to a shared library
   - License cleanups"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (100 commits)
  tools arch: Update arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S copy used in 'perf bench mem memcpy'
  tools arch x86: Update tools's copy of cpufeatures.h
  perf python: Fix pyrf_evlist__read_on_cpu() interface
  perf mmap: Store real cpu number in 'struct perf_mmap'
  perf tools: Remove ext from struct kmod_path
  perf tools: Add gzip_is_compressed function
  perf tools: Add lzma_is_compressed function
  perf tools: Add is_compressed callback to compressions array
  perf tools: Move the temp file processing into decompress_kmodule
  perf tools: Use compression id in decompress_kmodule()
  perf tools: Store compression id into struct dso
  perf tools: Add compression id into 'struct kmod_path'
  perf tools: Make is_supported_compression() static
  perf tools: Make decompress_to_file() function static
  perf tools: Get rid of dso__needs_decompress() call in __open_dso()
  perf tools: Get rid of dso__needs_decompress() call in symbol__disassemble()
  perf tools: Get rid of dso__needs_decompress() call in read_object_code()
  tools lib traceevent: Change to SPDX License format
  perf llvm: Allow passing options to llc in addition to clang
  perf parser: Improve error message for PMU address filters
  ...

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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 917e36fde6d8..474a4941f65d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -477,6 +477,15 @@ include::itrace.txt[]
 	Display monitored tasks stored in perf data. Displaying pid/tid/ppid
 	plus the command string aligned to distinguish parent and child tasks.
 
+--percent-type::
+	Set annotation percent type from following choices:
+	  global-period, local-period, global-hits, local-hits
+
+	The local/global keywords set if the percentage is computed
+	in the scope of the function (local) or the whole data (global).
+	The period/hits keywords set the base the percentage is computed
+	on - the samples period or the number of samples (hits).
+
 include::callchain-overhead-calculation.txt[]
 
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