Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"Perf event/metric description:

Unify all

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"Perf event/metric description:

Unify all event and metric descriptions in JSON format. Now event
parsing and handling is greatly simplified by that.

From users point of view, perf list will provide richer information
about hardware events like the following.

$ perf list hw

List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M):

legacy hardware:
branch-instructions
[Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branches]. Unit: cpu]
branch-misses
[Mispredicted branch instructions. Unit: cpu]
branches
[Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branch-instructions]. Unit: cpu]
bus-cycles
[Bus cycles,which can be different from total cycles. Unit: cpu]
cache-misses
[Cache misses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache misses; this is intended to be used in conjunction with the
PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES event to calculate cache miss rates. Unit: cpu]
cache-references
[Cache accesses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache accesses but this may vary depending on your CPU. This may include
prefetches and coherency messages; again this depends on the design of your CPU. Unit: cpu]
cpu-cycles
[Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cycles]. Unit: cpu]
cycles
[Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cpu-cycles]. Unit: cpu]
instructions
[Retired instructions. Be careful,these can be affected by various issues,most notably hardware interrupt counts. Unit: cpu]
ref-cycles
[Total cycles; not affected by CPU frequency scaling. Unit: cpu]

But most notable changes would be in the perf stat. On the right side,
the default metrics are better named and aligned. :)

$ perf stat -- perf test -w noploop

Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop':

11 context-switches # 10.8 cs/sec cs_per_second
0 cpu-migrations # 0.0 migrations/sec migrations_per_second
3,612 page-faults # 3532.5 faults/sec page_faults_per_second
1,022.51 msec task-clock # 1.0 CPUs CPUs_utilized
110,466 branch-misses # 0.0 % branch_miss_rate (88.66%)
6,934,452,104 branches # 6781.8 M/sec branch_frequency (88.66%)
4,657,032,590 cpu-cycles # 4.6 GHz cycles_frequency (88.65%)
27,755,874,218 instructions # 6.0 instructions insn_per_cycle (89.03%)
TopdownL1 # 0.3 % tma_backend_bound
# 9.3 % tma_bad_speculation (89.05%)
# 9.7 % tma_frontend_bound (77.86%)
# 80.7 % tma_retiring (88.81%)

1.025318171 seconds time elapsed

1.013248000 seconds user
0.012014000 seconds sys

Deferred unwinding support:

With the kernel support (commit c69993ecdd4d: "perf: Support deferred
user unwind"), perf can use deferred callchains for userspace stack
trace with frame pointers like below:

$ perf record --call-graph fp,defer ...

This will be transparent to users when it comes to other commands like
perf report and perf script. They will merge the deferred callchains
to the previous samples as if they were collected together.

ARM SPE updates

- Extensive enhancements to support various kinds of memory
operations including GCS, MTE allocation tags, memcpy/memset,
register access, and SIMD operations.

- Add inverted data source filter (inv_data_src_filter) support to
exclude certain data sources.

- Improve documentation.

Vendor event updates:

- Intel: Updated event files for Sierra Forest, Panther Lake, Meteor
Lake, Lunar Lake, Granite Rapids, and others.

- Arm64: Added metrics for i.MX94 DDR PMU and Cortex-A720AE
definitions.

- RISC-V: Added JSON support for T-HEAD C920V2.

Misc:

- Improve pointer tracking in data type profiling. It'd give better
output when the variable is using container_of() to convert type.

- Annotation support for perf c2c report in TUI. Press 'a' key to
enter annotation view from cacheline browser window. This will show
which instruction is causing the cacheline contention.

- Lots of fixes and test coverage improvements!"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (214 commits)
libperf: Use 'extern' in LIBPERF_API visibility macro
perf stat: Improve handling of termination by signal
perf tests stat: Add test for error for an offline CPU
perf stat: When no events, don't report an error if there is none
perf tests stat: Add "--null" coverage
perf cpumap: Add "any" CPU handling to cpu_map__snprint_mask
libperf cpumap: Fix perf_cpu_map__max for an empty/NULL map
perf stat: Allow no events to open if this is a "--null" run
perf test kvm: Add some basic perf kvm test coverage
perf tests evlist: Add basic evlist test
perf tests script dlfilter: Add a dlfilter test
perf tests kallsyms: Add basic kallsyms test
perf tests timechart: Add a perf timechart test
perf tests top: Add basic perf top coverage test
perf tests buildid: Add purge and remove testing
perf tests c2c: Add a basic c2c
perf c2c: Clean up some defensive gets and make asan clean
perf jitdump: Fix missed dso__put
perf mem-events: Don't leak online CPU map
perf hist: In init, ensure mem_info is put on error paths
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perf build: Remove NO_AUXTRACE build option

The NO_AUXTRACE build option was used when the __get_cpuid feature
test failed or if it was provided on the command line. The option no
longer avoids a de

perf build: Remove NO_AUXTRACE build option

The NO_AUXTRACE build option was used when the __get_cpuid feature
test failed or if it was provided on the command line. The option no
longer avoids a dependency on a library and so having the option is
just adding complexity to the code base. Remove the option
CONFIG_AUXTRACE from Build files and HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT by assuming
it is always defined.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

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

We need
4ba4f1afb6a9 ("perf: Generic hotplug support for a PMU with a scope")
in order to land a i915 PMU simplification and a fix. That landed in 6.12
and

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

We need
4ba4f1afb6a9 ("perf: Generic hotplug support for a PMU with a scope")
in order to land a i915 PMU simplification and a fix. That landed in 6.12
and we are stuck at 6.9 so lets bump things forward.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>

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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mm, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.14 merge window.

Merge branch 'for-6.14/constify-bin-attribute' into for-linus

- constification of 'struct bin_attribute' in various HID driver (Thomas Weißschuh)

Merge tag 'v6.13-rc3' into next

Sync up with the mainline.

Merge remote-tracking branch 'pm/opp/linux-next' into HEAD

Merge pm/opp tree to get dev_pm_opp_get_bw()

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

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

Catching up with 6.13-rc2.

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

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

A backmerge to get the PMT preparation work for
merging the BMG PMT support.

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

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

Kickstart 6.14 cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v6.13-rc1' into perf/core, to refresh the branch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.13-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.13

A few small fixes for v6.13, all system specific - the biggest t

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.13-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.13

A few small fixes for v6.13, all system specific - the biggest thing is
the fix for jack handling over suspend on some Intel laptops.

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Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.13-2024-11-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"perf record:

- Enable leader sampling fo

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.13-2024-11-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"perf record:

- Enable leader sampling for inherited task events. It was supported
only for system-wide events but the kernel started to support such
a setup since v6.12.

This is to reduce the number of PMU interrupts. The samples of the
leader event will contain counts of other events and no samples
will be generated for the other member events.

$ perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}:S' ${MYPROG}

perf report:

- Fix --branch-history option to display more branch-related
information like prediction, abort and cycles which is available
on Intel machines.

$ perf record -bg -- perf test -w brstack

$ perf report --branch-history
...
#
# Overhead Source:Line Symbol Shared Object Predicted Abort Cycles IPC [IPC Coverage]
# ........ ........................ .............. .................... ......... ..... ...... ....................
#
8.17% copy_page_64.S:19 [k] copy_page [kernel.kallsyms] 50.0% 0 5 - -
|
---xas_load xarray.h:171
|
|--5.68%--xas_load xarray.c:245 (cycles:1)
| xas_load xarray.c:242
| xas_load xarray.h:1260 (cycles:1)
| xas_descend xarray.c:146
| xas_load xarray.c:244 (cycles:2)
| xas_load xarray.c:245
| xas_descend xarray.c:218 (cycles:10)
...

perf stat:

- Add HWMON PMU support.

The HWMON provides various system information like CPU/GPU
temperature, fan speed and so on. Expose them as PMU events so that
users can see the values using perf stat commands.

$ perf stat -e temp_cpu,fan1 true

Performance counter stats for 'true':

60.00 'C temp_cpu
0 rpm fan1

0.000745382 seconds time elapsed

0.000883000 seconds user
0.000000000 seconds sys

- Display metric threshold in JSON output.

Some metrics define thresholds to classify value ranges. It used to
be in a different color but it won't work for JSON.

Add "metric-threshold" field to the JSON that can be one of "good",
"less good", "nearly bad" and "bad".

# perf stat -a -M TopdownL1 -j true
{"counter-value" : "18693525.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "TOPDOWN.SLOTS", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "43.226002", "metric-unit" : "% tma_backend_bound", "metric-threshold" : "bad"}
{"metric-value" : "29.212267", "metric-unit" : "% tma_frontend_bound", "metric-threshold" : "bad"}
{"metric-value" : "7.138972", "metric-unit" : "% tma_bad_speculation", "metric-threshold" : "good"}
{"metric-value" : "20.422759", "metric-unit" : "% tma_retiring", "metric-threshold" : "good"}
{"counter-value" : "3817732.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "topdown-retiring", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, }
{"counter-value" : "5472824.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "topdown-fe-bound", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, }
{"counter-value" : "7984780.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "topdown-be-bound", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, }
{"counter-value" : "1418181.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "topdown-bad-spec", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, }
...

perf sched:

- Add -P/--pre-migrations option for 'timehist' sub-command to track
time a task waited on a run-queue before migrating to a different
CPU.

$ perf sched timehist -P
time cpu task name wait time sch delay run time pre-mig time
[tid/pid] (msec) (msec) (msec) (msec)
--------------- ------ ------------------------------ --------- --------- --------- ---------
585940.535527 [0000] perf[584885] 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
585940.535535 [0000] migration/0[20] 0.000 0.002 0.008 0.000
585940.535559 [0001] perf[584885] 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
585940.535563 [0001] migration/1[25] 0.000 0.001 0.004 0.000
585940.535678 [0002] perf[584885] 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
585940.535686 [0002] migration/2[31] 0.000 0.002 0.008 0.000
585940.535905 [0001] <idle> 0.000 0.000 0.342 0.000
585940.535938 [0003] perf[584885] 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
585940.537048 [0001] sleep[584886] 0.000 0.019 1.142 0.001
585940.537749 [0002] <idle> 0.000 0.000 2.062 0.000
...

Build:

- Make libunwind opt-in (LIBUNWIND=1) rather than opt-out.

The perf tools are generally built with libelf and libdw which has
unwinder functionality. The libunwind support predates it and no
need to have duplicate unwinders by default.

- Rename NO_DWARF=1 build option to NO_LIBDW=1 in order to clarify
it's using libdw for handling DWARF information.

Internals:

- Do not set exclude_guest bit in the perf_event_attr by default.

This was causing a trouble in AMD IBS PMU as it doesn't support the
bit. The bit will be set when it's needed later by the fallback
logic. Also update the missing feature detection logic to make sure
not clear supported bits unnecessarily.

- Run perf test in parallel by default and mark flaky tests
"exclusive" to run them serially at the end. Some test numbers are
changed but the test can complete in less than half the time.

JSON vendor events:

- Add AMD Zen 5 events and metrics.

- Add i.MX91 and i.MX95 DDR metrics

- Fix HiSilicon HIP08 Topdown metric name.

- Support compat events on PowerPC"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.13-2024-11-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (232 commits)
perf tests: Fix hwmon parsing with PMU name test
perf hwmon_pmu: Ensure hwmon key union is zeroed before use
perf tests hwmon_pmu: Remove double evlist__delete()
perf/test: fix perf ftrace test on s390
perf bpf-filter: Return -ENOMEM directly when pfi allocation fails
perf test: Correct hwmon test PMU detection
perf: Remove unused del_perf_probe_events()
perf pmu: Move pmu_metrics_table__find and remove ARM override
perf jevents: Add map_for_cpu()
perf header: Pass a perf_cpu rather than a PMU to get_cpuid_str
perf header: Avoid transitive PMU includes
perf arm64 header: Use cpu argument in get_cpuid
perf header: Refactor get_cpuid to take a CPU for ARM
perf header: Move is_cpu_online to numa bench
perf jevents: fix breakage when do perf stat on system metric
perf test: Add missing __exit calls in tool/hwmon tests
perf tests: Make leader sampling test work without branch event
perf util: Remove kernel version deadcode
perf test shell trace_exit_race: Use --no-comm to avoid cases where COMM isn't resolved
perf test shell trace_exit_race: Show what went wrong in verbose mode
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perf arm: Remove dwarf-regs.c

The file just provides the function get_arch_regstr, however, if in
the only caller get_dwarf_regstr EM_HOST is used for the EM_NONE case
the function can never be call

perf arm: Remove dwarf-regs.c

The file just provides the function get_arch_regstr, however, if in
the only caller get_dwarf_regstr EM_HOST is used for the EM_NONE case
the function can never be called. So remove as dead code. Tidy up the
EM_NONE cases for arm in dwarf-regs.c.

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong@bytedance.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Shenlin Liang <liangshenlin@eswincomputing.com>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Cc: Guilherme Amadio <amadio@gentoo.org>
Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@google.com>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Cc: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Chen Pei <cp0613@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Cc: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241108234606.429459-10-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

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perf build: Rename CONFIG_DWARF to CONFIG_LIBDW

In Makefile.config for unwinding the name dwarf implies either
libunwind or libdw. Make it clearer that CONFIG_DWARF is really just
defined when libdw

perf build: Rename CONFIG_DWARF to CONFIG_LIBDW

In Makefile.config for unwinding the name dwarf implies either
libunwind or libdw. Make it clearer that CONFIG_DWARF is really just
defined when libdw is present by renaming to CONFIG_LIBDW.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong@bytedance.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Shenlin Liang <liangshenlin@eswincomputing.com>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Cc: Guilherme Amadio <amadio@gentoo.org>
Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@google.com>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Cc: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Chen Pei <cp0613@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Cc: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241017001354.56973-12-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.12 merge window.

Merge branch 'ib/6.11-rc6-matrix-keypad-spitz' into next

Bring in changes removing support for platform data from matrix-keypad
driver.

Merge tag 'v6.11-rc1' into clk-meson-next

Linux 6.11-rc1

Merge tag 'v6.11-rc3' into trace/ring-buffer/core

The "reserve_mem" kernel command line parameter has been pulled into
v6.11. Merge the latest -rc3 to allow the persistent ring buffer memory to
be a

Merge tag 'v6.11-rc3' into trace/ring-buffer/core

The "reserve_mem" kernel command line parameter has been pulled into
v6.11. Merge the latest -rc3 to allow the persistent ring buffer memory to
be able to be mapped at the address specified by the "reserve_mem" command
line parameter.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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Merge tag 'v6.11-rc1' into for-6.12

Linux 6.11-rc1

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Get drm-xe-next on v6.11-rc2 and synchronized with drm-intel-next for
the display side. This resolves the current conflict for the
enable_display module parameter

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Get drm-xe-next on v6.11-rc2 and synchronized with drm-intel-next for
the display side. This resolves the current conflict for the
enable_display module parameter and allows further pending refactors.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>

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

Get drm-misc-next to the state of v6.11-rc2.

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

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

Sync with v6.11-rc1 in general, and specifically get the new
BACKLIGHT_POWER_ constants for power states.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mm

Bring x86 and selftests up to date