Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20161114' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel...

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

New features:

 - Allow querying and setting .perfconfig variables (Taeung Song)

 - Show branch information in callchains (predicted, TSX aborts, loop
   iteractions, etc) (Jin Yao)

Infrastructure changes:

 - Support kbuild's CFLAGS_REMOVE_ in tools/build (Jiri Olsa)

 - Plug building jvmti to the main perf Makefile (Jiri Olsa)

Documentation changes:

 - Update Intel PT documentation about context switch events (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

 - Fix 'perf record --call-graph dwarf' help/config in builds not linking
   with a unwind library, mentioning that is a possible record option (Rabin Vincent)

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