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 branch 'for-6.19/nintendo' into for-linus

- switch to WQ_PERCPU workaueues (Marco Crivellari)
- reduce potential initialization blocking time of hid-nintendo (Willy Huang)

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next-robclark

Back-merge drm-next to get caught up.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com>

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

Backmerging to bring in 6.18-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>

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

Sync to v6.18-rc1.

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

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

Updating drm-misc-next to the state of v6.18-rc1.

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

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf before 6.18-rc1

Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR.

No conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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

Backmerge in order to get the commit:

048832a3f400 ("drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter")

To drm-intel-gt-next as there are f

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

Backmerge in order to get the commit:

048832a3f400 ("drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter")

To drm-intel-gt-next as there are followup fixes to be applied.

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

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Merge branch 'objtool/core'

Bring in the UDB and objtool data annotations to avoid conflicts while further extending the bug exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Merge commit 'linus' into core/bugs, to resolve conflicts

Resolve conflicts with this commit that was developed in parallel
during the merge window:

8c8efa93db68 ("x86/bug: Add ARCH_WARN_ASM macro

Merge commit 'linus' into core/bugs, to resolve conflicts

Resolve conflicts with this commit that was developed in parallel
during the merge window:

8c8efa93db68 ("x86/bug: Add ARCH_WARN_ASM macro for BUG/WARN asm code sharing with Rust")

Conflicts:
arch/riscv/include/asm/bug.h
arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h

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

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Merge tag 'v6.18-rc6' into for-linus

Sync up with the mainline to bring in definition of
INPUT_PROP_HAPTIC_TOUCHPAD.

spi: Merge up v6.18-rc1

Ensure my CI has a sensible baseline.

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.18-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.18

A moderately large collection of driver specific fixes, plus a f

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.18-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.18

A moderately large collection of driver specific fixes, plus a few new
quirks and device IDs. The NAU8821 changes are a little large but more
in mechanical ways than in ways that are complex.

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

Updating drm-misc-fixes to the state of v6.18-rc1.

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

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

- Extended 'perf annotate' wit

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

- Extended 'perf annotate' with DWARF type information
(--code-with-type) integration in the TUI, including a 'T'
hotkey to toggle it

- Enhanced 'perf bench mem' with new mmap() workloads and control
over page/chunk sizes

- Fix 'perf stat' error handling to correctly display unsupported
events

- Improved support for Clang cross-compilation

- Refactored LLVM and Capstone disasm for modularity

- Introduced the :X modifier to exclude an event from automatic
regrouping

- Adjusted KVM sampling defaults to use the "cycles" event to prevent
failures

- Added comprehensive support for decoding PowerPC Dispatch Trace Log
(DTL)

- Updated Arm SPE tracing logic for better analysis of memory and snoop
details

- Synchronized Intel PMU events and metrics with TMA 5.1 across
multiple processor generations

- Converted dependencies like libperl and libtracefs to be opt-in

- Handle more Rust symbols in kallsyms ('N', debugging)

- Improve the python binding to allow for python based tools to use
more of the libraries, add a 'ilist' utility to test those new
bindings

- Various 'perf test' fixes

- Kan Liang no longer a perf tools reviewer

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (192 commits)
perf tools: Fix arm64 libjvmti build by generating unistd_64.h
perf tests: Don't retest sections in "Object code reading"
perf docs: Document building with Clang
perf build: Support build with clang
perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for unroll loop thread
perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for thread loop
perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for memcpy thread
perf build: Disable thread safety analysis for perl header
perf build: Correct CROSS_ARCH for clang
perf python: split Clang options when invoking Popen
tools build: Align warning options with perf
perf disasm: Remove unused evsel from 'struct annotate_args'
perf srcline: Fallback between addr2line implementations
perf disasm: Make ins__scnprintf() and ins__is_nop() static
perf dso: Clean up read_symbol() error handling
perf dso: Support BPF programs in dso__read_symbol()
perf dso: Move read_symbol() from llvm/capstone to dso
perf llvm: Reduce LLVM initialization
perf check: Add libLLVM feature
perf parse-events: Fix parsing of >30kb event strings
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perf powerpc: Add basic CONFIG_AUXTRACE support for VPA pmu on powerpc

The powerpc PMU collecting Dispatch Trace Log (DTL) entries makes use of
AUX support in perf infrastructure.

The PMU driver ha

perf powerpc: Add basic CONFIG_AUXTRACE support for VPA pmu on powerpc

The powerpc PMU collecting Dispatch Trace Log (DTL) entries makes use of
AUX support in perf infrastructure.

The PMU driver has the functionality to collect trace entries in the aux
buffer.

On the tools side, this data is made available as PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE
records.

This record is generated by "perf record" command.

To enable the creation of PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE, add functions to
initialize auxtrace records ie "auxtrace_record__init()".

Fill in fields for other callbacks like info_priv_size, info_fill, free,
recording options etc.

Define auxtrace_type as PERF_AUXTRACE_VPA_DTL. Add header file to
define vpa dtl pmu specific details.

Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Tejas Manhas <tejas05@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aditya Bodkhe <Aditya.Bodkhe1@ibm.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.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 6.18 merge window.

Merge tag 'v6.17-rc2' into HEAD

Sync up with mainline to bring in changes to include/linux/sprintf.h

Merge branch 'for-6.18/core' into for-linus

- allow HID-BPF to rebind a driver to hid-multitouch (Benjamin
Tissoires)
- Change hid_driver to use a const char* for .name (Rahul Rameshbabu)

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin' into for-6.18/intel-thc-hid

Needed as a basisi for followup support for quicki2c advanced BIOS features.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>

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

Backmerging to drm-misc-next-fixes to get features and fixes from
v6.17-rc6.

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

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

Catching up with some display dependencies.

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

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

Bring v6.17-rc1 to propagate commits from other subsystems, particularly
PCI, which has some new functions needed for SR-IOV integration.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De

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

Bring v6.17-rc1 to propagate commits from other subsystems, particularly
PCI, which has some new functions needed for SR-IOV integration.

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

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

Updating drm-misc-next to the state of v6.17-rc1. Begins a new release
cycle.

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