Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.14-2025-01-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf-tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"There are a lot of changes in the perf tools

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.14-2025-01-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf-tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"There are a lot of changes in the perf tools in this cycle.

build:

- Use generic syscall table to generate syscall numbers on supported
archs

- This also enables to get rid of libaudit which was used for syscall
numbers

- Remove python2 support as it's deprecated for years

- Fix issues on static build with libzstd

perf record:

- Intel-PT supports "aux-action" config term to pause or resume
tracing in the aux-buffer. Users can start the intel_pt event as
"started-paused" and configure other events to control the Intel-PT
tracing:

# perf record --kcore -e intel_pt/aux-action=start-paused/ \
-e syscalls:sys_enter_newuname/aux-action=resume/ \
-e syscalls:sys_exit_newuname/aux-action=pause/ -- uname

This requires kernel support (which was added in v6.13)

perf lock:

- 'perf lock contention' command has an ability to symbolize locks in
dynamically allocated objects using slab cache name when it runs
with BPF. Those dynamic locks would have "&" prefix in the name to
distinguish them from ordinary (static) locks

# perf lock con -abl -E 5 sleep 1
contended total wait max wait avg wait address symbol

2 1.95 us 1.77 us 975 ns ffff9d5e852d3498 &task_struct (mutex)
1 1.18 us 1.18 us 1.18 us ffff9d5e852d3538 &task_struct (mutex)
4 1.12 us 354 ns 279 ns ffff9d5e841ca800 &kmalloc-cg-512 (mutex)
2 859 ns 617 ns 429 ns ffffffffa41c3620 delayed_uprobe_lock (mutex)
3 691 ns 388 ns 230 ns ffffffffa41c0940 pack_mutex (mutex)

This also requires kernel/BPF support (which was added in v6.13)

perf ftrace:

- 'perf ftrace latency' command gets a couple of options to support
linear buckets instead of exponential. Also it's possible to
specify max and min latency for the linear buckets:

# perf ftrace latency -abn -T switch_mm_irqs_off --bucket-range=100 \
--min-latency=200 --max-latency=800 -- sleep 1
# DURATION | COUNT | GRAPH |
0 - 200 ns | 186 | ### |
200 - 300 ns | 256 | ##### |
300 - 400 ns | 364 | ####### |
400 - 500 ns | 223 | #### |
500 - 600 ns | 111 | ## |
600 - 700 ns | 41 | |
700 - 800 ns | 141 | ## |
800 - ... ns | 169 | ### |

# statistics (in nsec)
total time: 2162212
avg time: 967
max time: 16817
min time: 132
count: 2236

- As you can see in the above example, it nows shows the statistics
at the end so that users can see the avg/max/min latencies easily

- 'perf ftrace profile' command has --graph-opts option like 'perf
ftrace trace' so that it can control the tracing behaviors in the
same way. For example, it can limit the function call depth or
threshold

perf script:

- Improve physical memory resolution in 'mem-phys-addr' script by
parsing /proc/iomem file

# perf script mem-phys-addr -- find /
...
Event: mem_inst_retired.all_loads:P
Memory type count percentage
---------------------------------------- ---------- ----------
100000000-85f7fffff : System RAM 8929 69.7
547600000-54785d23f : Kernel data 1240 9.7
546a00000-5474bdfff : Kernel rodata 490 3.8
5480ce000-5485fffff : Kernel bss 121 0.9
0-fff : Reserved 3860 30.1
100000-89c01fff : System RAM 18 0.1
8a22c000-8df6efff : System RAM 5 0.0

Others:

- 'perf test' gets --runs-per-test option to run the test cases
repeatedly. This would be helpful to see if it's flaky

- Add 'parse_events' method to Python perf extension module, so that
users can use the same event parsing logic in the python code. One
more step towards implementing perf tools in Python. :)

- Support opening tracepoint events without libtraceevent. This will
be helpful if it won't use the tracing data like in 'perf stat'

- Update ARM Neoverse N2/V2 JSON events and metrics"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.14-2025-01-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (176 commits)
perf test: Update event_groups test to use instructions
perf bench: Fix undefined behavior in cmpworker()
perf annotate: Prefer passing evsel to evsel->core.idx
perf lock: Rename fields in lock_type_table
perf lock: Add percpu-rwsem for type filter
perf lock: Fix parse_lock_type which only retrieve one lock flag
perf lock: Fix return code for functions in __cmd_contention
perf hist: Fix width calculation in hpp__fmt()
perf hist: Fix bogus profiles when filters are enabled
perf hist: Deduplicate cmp/sort/collapse code
perf test: Improve verbose documentation
perf test: Add a runs-per-test flag
perf test: Fix parallel/sequential option documentation
perf test: Send list output to stdout rather than stderr
perf test: Rename functions and variables for better clarity
perf tools: Expose quiet/verbose variables in Makefile.perf
perf config: Add a function to set one variable in .perfconfig
perf test perftool_testsuite: Return correct value for skipping
perf test perftool_testsuite: Add missing description
perf test record+probe_libc_inet_pton: Make test resilient
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perf tools: Create generic syscall table support

Currently each architecture in perf independently generates syscall
headers.

Adapt the work that has gone into unifying syscall header
implementatio

perf tools: Create generic syscall table support

Currently each architecture in perf independently generates syscall
headers.

Adapt the work that has gone into unifying syscall header
implementations in the kernel to work with perf tools.

Introduce this framework with riscv at first. riscv previously relied on
libaudit, but with this change, perf tools for riscv no longer needs
this external dependency.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108-perf_syscalltbl-v6-1-7543b5293098@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge tag 'v5.18'

Linux 5.18

Merge branches 'fixes' and 'misc' into for-linus

Merge branch 'for-5.18/amd-sfh' into for-linus

- dead code elimination (Christophe JAILLET)

Merge tag 'v5.17-rc4' into for-linus

Merge with mainline to get the Intel ASoC generic helpers header and
other changes.

Merge tag 'v5.17-rc4' into next

Sync up with mainline to get the latest changes in HID subsystem.

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next

First backmerge into drm-misc-next. Required for more helpers backmerged,
and to pull in 5.17 (rc2).

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next

First backmerge into drm-misc-next. Required for more helpers backmerged,
and to pull in 5.17 (rc2).

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

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Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-5.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm64 fixes for 5.17, take #2

- A couple of fixes when handling an exception while a SEr

Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-5.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm64 fixes for 5.17, take #2

- A couple of fixes when handling an exception while a SError has been
delivered

- Workaround for Cortex-A510's single-step[ erratum

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Backmerge to bring in 5.17-rc2 to introduce a common baseline
to merge i915_regs changes from drm-intel-next.

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtin

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Backmerge to bring in 5.17-rc2 to introduce a common baseline
to merge i915_regs changes from drm-intel-next.

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catch-up with 5.17-rc2 and trying to align with drm-intel-gt-next
for a possible topic branch for merging the split of i915_regs...

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Viv

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catch-up with 5.17-rc2 and trying to align with drm-intel-gt-next
for a possible topic branch for merging the split of i915_regs...

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

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Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Backmerging drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes for v5.17-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v5.17-2022-01-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux

Pull perf tool updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
"New features:

- Add 'trace' subcom

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v5.17-2022-01-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux

Pull perf tool updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
"New features:

- Add 'trace' subcommand for 'perf ftrace', setting the stage for
more 'perf ftrace' subcommands. Not using a subcommand yields the
previous behaviour of 'perf ftrace'.

- Add 'latency' subcommand to 'perf ftrace', that can use the
function graph tracer or a BPF optimized one, via the -b/--use-bpf
option.

E.g.:

$ sudo perf ftrace latency -a -T mutex_lock sleep 1
# DURATION | COUNT | GRAPH |
0 - 1 us | 4596 | ######################## |
1 - 2 us | 1680 | ######### |
2 - 4 us | 1106 | ##### |
4 - 8 us | 546 | ## |
8 - 16 us | 562 | ### |
16 - 32 us | 1 | |
32 - 64 us | 0 | |
64 - 128 us | 0 | |
128 - 256 us | 0 | |
256 - 512 us | 0 | |
512 - 1024 us | 0 | |
1 - 2 ms | 0 | |
2 - 4 ms | 0 | |
4 - 8 ms | 0 | |
8 - 16 ms | 0 | |
16 - 32 ms | 0 | |
32 - 64 ms | 0 | |
64 - 128 ms | 0 | |
128 - 256 ms | 0 | |
256 - 512 ms | 0 | |
512 - 1024 ms | 0 | |
1 - ... s | 0 | |

The original implementation of this command was in the bcc tool.

- Support --cputype option for hybrid events in 'perf stat'.

Improvements:

- Call chain improvements for ARM64.

- No need to do any affinity setup when profiling pids.

- Reduce multiplexing with duration_time in 'perf stat' metrics.

- Improve error message for uncore events, stating that some event
groups are can only be used in system wide (-a) mode.

- perf stat metric group leader fixes/improvements, including arch
specific changes to better support Intel topdown events.

- Probe non-deprecated sysfs path first, i.e. try the path
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/topology/thread_siblings first, then
the old /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/topology/core_cpus.

- Disable debuginfod by default in 'perf record', to avoid stalls on
distros such as Fedora 35.

- Use unbuffered output in 'perf bench' when pipe/tee'ing to a file.

- Enable ignore_missing_thread in 'perf trace'

Fixes:

- Avoid TUI crash when navigating in the annotation of recursive
functions.

- Fix hex dump character output in 'perf script'.

- Fix JSON indentation to 4 spaces standard in the ARM vendor event
files.

- Fix use after free in metric__new().

- Fix IS_ERR_OR_NULL() usage in the perf BPF loader.

- Fix up cross-arch register support, i.e. when printing register
names take into account the architecture where the perf.data file
was collected.

- Fix SMT fallback with large core counts.

- Don't lower case MetricExpr when parsing JSON files so as not to
lose info such as the ":G" event modifier in metrics.

perf test:

- Add basic stress test for sigtrap handling to 'perf test'.

- Fix 'perf test' failures on s/390

- Enable system wide for metricgroups test in 'perf test´.

- Use 3 digits for test numbering now we can have more tests.

Arch specific:

- Add events for Arm Neoverse N2 in the ARM JSON vendor event files

- Support PERF_MEM_LVLNUM encodings in powerpc, that came from a
single patch series, where I incorrectly merged the kernel bits,
that were then reverted after coordination with Michael Ellerman
and Stephen Rothwell.

- Add ARM SPE total latency as PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT.

- Update AMD documentation, with info on raw event encoding.

- Add support for global and local variants of the "p_stage_cyc" sort
key, applicable to perf.data files collected on powerpc.

- Remove duplicate and incorrect aux size checks in the ARM CoreSight
ETM code.

Refactorings:

- Add a perf_cpu abstraction to disambiguate CPUs and CPU map
indexes, fixing problems along the way.

- Document CPU map methods.

UAPI sync:

- Update arch/x86/lib/mem{cpy,set}_64.S copies used in 'perf bench
mem memcpy'

- Sync UAPI files with the kernel sources: drm, msr-index,
cpufeatures.

Build system

- Enable warnings through HOSTCFLAGS.

- Drop requirement for libstdc++.so for libopencsd check

libperf:

- Make libperf adopt perf_counts_values__scale() from tools/perf/util/.

- Add a stat multiplexing test to libperf"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v5.17-2022-01-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux: (115 commits)
perf record: Disable debuginfod by default
perf evlist: No need to do any affinity setup when profiling pids
perf cpumap: Add is_dummy() method
perf metric: Fix metric_leader
perf cputopo: Fix CPU topology reading on s/390
perf metricgroup: Fix use after free in metric__new()
libperf tests: Update a use of the new cpumap API
perf arm: Fix off-by-one directory path
tools arch x86: Sync the msr-index.h copy with the kernel sources
tools headers cpufeatures: Sync with the kernel sources
tools headers UAPI: Update tools's copy of drm.h header
tools arch: Update arch/x86/lib/mem{cpy,set}_64.S copies used in 'perf bench mem memcpy'
perf pmu-events: Don't lower case MetricExpr
perf expr: Add debug logging for literals
perf tools: Probe non-deprecated sysfs path 1st
perf tools: Fix SMT fallback with large core counts
perf cpumap: Give CPUs their own type
perf stat: Correct first_shadow_cpu to return index
perf script: Fix flipped index and cpu
perf c2c: Use more intention revealing iterator
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tools build: Enable warnings through HOSTCFLAGS

The tools build system uses KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS symbol for obvious purposes.

However this is not set for anything under tools/

As such, host tools app

tools build: Enable warnings through HOSTCFLAGS

The tools build system uses KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS symbol for obvious purposes.

However this is not set for anything under tools/

As such, host tools apps built have no compiler warnings enabled.

Declare HOSTCFLAGS for perf tools build, and also use that symbol in
declaration of host_c_flags. HOSTCFLAGS comes from EXTRA_WARNINGS, which
is independent of target platform/arch warning flags.

Suggested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1635525041-151876-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 5.15 merge window.

Merge tag 'v5.13' into next

Sync up with the mainline to get the latest parport API.

Merge tag 'v5.13-rc3' into asoc-5.13

Linux 5.13-rc3

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Pulling in -rc2 fixes and TTM changes that next upcoming patches depend
on.

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

Merge tag 'v5.13-rc2' into spi-5.13

Linux 5.13-rc2

Merge branch 'fixes-rc1' into fixes

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Time to get back in sync...

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get v5.12 fixes. Requested for vmwgfx.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Start this new release drm-misc-fixes branch

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

- Evaluate $(call cc-option,...) etc. only for build targ

Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

- Evaluate $(call cc-option,...) etc. only for build targets

- Add CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP to generate .map file when linking vmlinux

- Remove unnecessary --gcc-toolchains Clang flag because the --prefix
flag finds the toolchains

- Do not pass Clang's --prefix flag when using the integrated as

- Check the assembler version in Kconfig time

- Add new CONFIG options, AS_VERSION, AS_IS_GNU, AS_IS_LLVM to clean up
some dependencies in Kconfig

- Fix invalid Module.symvers creation when building only modules
without vmlinux

- Fix false-positive modpost warnings when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is
set, but there is no module to build

- Refactor module installation Makefile

- Support zstd for module compression

- Convert alpha and ia64 to use generic shell scripts to generate the
syscall headers

- Add a new elfnote to indicate if the kernel was built with LTO, which
will be used by pahole

- Flatten the directory structure under include/config/ so CONFIG
options and filenames match

- Change the deb source package name from linux-$(KERNELRELEASE) to
linux-upstream

* tag 'kbuild-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (42 commits)
kbuild: Add $(KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS) to 'has_libelf' test
kbuild: deb-pkg: change the source package name to linux-upstream
tools: do not include scripts/Kbuild.include
kbuild: redo fake deps at include/config/*.h
kbuild: remove TMPO from try-run
MAINTAINERS: add pattern for dummy-tools
kbuild: add an elfnote for whether vmlinux is built with lto
ia64: syscalls: switch to generic syscallhdr.sh
ia64: syscalls: switch to generic syscalltbl.sh
alpha: syscalls: switch to generic syscallhdr.sh
alpha: syscalls: switch to generic syscalltbl.sh
sysctl: use min() helper for namecmp()
kbuild: add support for zstd compressed modules
kbuild: remove CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS
kbuild: merge scripts/Makefile.modsign to scripts/Makefile.modinst
kbuild: move module strip/compression code into scripts/Makefile.modinst
kbuild: refactor scripts/Makefile.modinst
kbuild: rename extmod-prefix to extmod_prefix
kbuild: check module name conflict for external modules as well
kbuild: show the target directory for depmod log
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tools: do not include scripts/Kbuild.include

Since commit 57fd251c7896 ("kbuild: split cc-option and friends to
scripts/Makefile.compiler"), some kselftests fail to build.

The tools/ directory opte

tools: do not include scripts/Kbuild.include

Since commit 57fd251c7896 ("kbuild: split cc-option and friends to
scripts/Makefile.compiler"), some kselftests fail to build.

The tools/ directory opted out Kbuild, and went in a different
direction. People copied scripts and Makefiles to the tools/ directory
to create their own build system.

tools/build/Build.include mimics scripts/Kbuild.include, but some
tool Makefiles include the Kbuild one to import a feature that is
missing in tools/build/Build.include:

- Commit ec04aa3ae87b ("tools/thermal: tmon: use "-fstack-protector"
only if supported") included scripts/Kbuild.include from
tools/thermal/tmon/Makefile to import the cc-option macro.

- Commit c2390f16fc5b ("selftests: kvm: fix for compilers that do
not support -no-pie") included scripts/Kbuild.include from
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile to import the try-run macro.

- Commit 9cae4ace80ef ("selftests/bpf: do not ignore clang
failures") included scripts/Kbuild.include from
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile to import the .DELETE_ON_ERROR
target.

- Commit 0695f8bca93e ("selftests/powerpc: Handle Makefile for
unrecognized option") included scripts/Kbuild.include from
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/Makefile to import the
try-run macro.

Copy what they need into tools/build/Build.include, and make them
include it instead of scripts/Kbuild.include.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/86dadf33-70f7-a5ac-cb8c-64966d2f45a1@linux.ibm.com/
Fixes: 57fd251c7896 ("kbuild: split cc-option and friends to scripts/Makefile.compiler")
Reported-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>

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