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# f4f346c3 02-Aug-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.17-2025-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"Build-ID processing goodies:

Build-IDs

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.17-2025-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"Build-ID processing goodies:

Build-IDs are content based hashes to link regions of memory to ELF
files in post processing. They have been available in distros for
quite a while:

$ file /bin/bash
/bin/bash: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,
BuildID[sha1]=707a1c670cd72f8e55ffedfbe94ea98901b7ce3a,
for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped

It is possible to ask the kernel to get it from mmap executable
backing storage at time they are being put in place and send it as
metadata at that moment to have in perf.data.

Prefer that across the board to speed up 'record' time - it post
processes the samples to find binaries touched by any samples and
to save them with build-ID. It can skip reading build-ID in
userspace if it comes from the kernel.

perf record:

* Make --buildid-mmap default. The kernel can generate MMAP2 events
with a build-ID from ELF header. Use that by default instead of using
inode and device ID to identify binaries. It also can be disabled
with --no-buildid-mmap.

* Use BPF for -u/--uid option to sample processes belong to a user.
BPF can track user processes more accurately and the existing logic
often fails to get the list of processes due to race with reading the
/proc filesystem.

* Generate PERF_RECORD_BPF_METADATA when it profiles BPF programs and
they have variables starting with "bpf_metadata_". This will help to
identify BPF objects used in the profile. This has been supported in
bpftool for some time and allows the recording of metadata such as
commit hashes, versions, etc, that now gets recorded in perf.data as
well.

* Collect list of DSOs touched in the sample callchains as well as in
the sample itself. This would increase the processing time at the end
of record, but can improve the data quality.

perf stat:

* Add a new 'drm' pseudo-PMU support like in 'hwmon'. It can collect
DRM usage stats using fdinfo in /proc.

On my Intel laptop, it shows like below:

$ perf list drm
...

drm:
drm-active-stolen-system0
[Total memory active in one or more engines. Unit: drm_i915]
drm-active-system0
[Total memory active in one or more engines. Unit: drm_i915]
drm-engine-capacity-video
[Engine capacity. Unit: drm_i915]
drm-engine-copy
[Utilization in ns. Unit: drm_i915]
drm-engine-render
[Utilization in ns. Unit: drm_i915]
drm-engine-video
[Utilization in ns. Unit: drm_i915]
...

$ sudo perf stat -a -e drm-engine-render,drm-engine-video,drm-engine-capacity-video sleep 1

Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

48,137,316,988,873 ns drm-engine-render
34,452,696,746 ns drm-engine-video
20 capacity drm-engine-capacity-video

1.002086194 seconds time elapsed

perf list

* Add description for software events. The description is in JSON format
and the event parser now can handle the software events like others
(for example, it's case-insensitive and subject to wildcard matching).

$ perf list software

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

software:
alignment-faults
[Number of kernel handled memory alignment faults. Unit: software]
bpf-output
[An event used by BPF programs to write to the perf ring buffer. Unit: software]
cgroup-switches
[Number of context switches to a task in a different cgroup. Unit: software]
context-switches
[Number of context switches [This event is an alias of cs]. Unit: software]
cpu-clock
[Per-CPU high-resolution timer based event. Unit: software]
cpu-migrations
[Number of times a process has migrated to a new CPU [This event is an alias of migrations]. Unit: software]
cs
[Number of context switches [This event is an alias of context-switches]. Unit: software]
dummy
[A placeholder event that doesn't count anything. Unit: software]
emulation-faults
[Number of kernel handled unimplemented instruction faults handled through emulation. Unit: software]
faults
[Number of page faults [This event is an alias of page-faults]. Unit: software]
major-faults
[Number of major page faults. Major faults require I/O to handle. Unit: software]
migrations
[Number of times a process has migrated to a new CPU [This event is an alias of cpu-migrations]. Unit: software]
minor-faults
[Number of minor page faults. Minor faults don't require I/O to handle. Unit: software]
page-faults
[Number of page faults [This event is an alias of faults]. Unit: software]
task-clock
[Per-task high-resolution timer based event. Unit: software]

perf ftrace:

* Add -e/--events option to perf ftrace latency to measure latency
between the two events instead of a function.

$ sudo perf ftrace latency -ab -e i915_request_wait_begin,i915_request_wait_end --hide-empty -- sleep 1
# DURATION | COUNT | GRAPH |
256 - 512 us | 4 | ###### |
2 - 4 ms | 2 | ### |
4 - 8 ms | 12 | ################### |
8 - 16 ms | 10 | ################ |

# statistics (in usec)
total time: 194915
avg time: 6961
max time: 12855
min time: 373
count: 28

* Add new function graph tracer options (--graph-opts) to display more
info like arguments and return value. They will be passed to the
kernel ftrace directly.

$ sudo perf ftrace -G vfs_write --graph-opts retval,retaddr
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | |
...
5) | mutex_unlock() { /* <-rb_simple_write+0xda/0x150 */
5) 0.188 us | local_clock(); /* <-lock_release+0x2ad/0x440 ret=0x3bf2a3cf90e */
5) | rt_mutex_slowunlock() { /* <-rb_simple_write+0xda/0x150 */
5) | _raw_spin_lock_irqsave() { /* <-rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x4f/0x200 */
5) 0.123 us | preempt_count_add(); /* <-_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x23/0x90 ret=0x0 */
5) 0.128 us | local_clock(); /* <-__lock_acquire.isra.0+0x17a/0x740 ret=0x3bf2a3cfc8b */
5) 0.086 us | do_raw_spin_trylock(); /* <-_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4a/0x90 ret=0x1 */
5) 0.845 us | } /* _raw_spin_lock_irqsave ret=0x292 */
...

Misc:

* Add perf archive --exclude-buildids <FILE> option to skip some binaries.
The format of the FILE should be same as an output of perf buildid-list.

* Get rid of dependency of libcrypto. It was just to get SHA-1 hash so
implement it directly like in the kernel. A side effect is that it
needs -fno-strict-aliasing compiler option (again, like in the kernel).

* Convert all shell script tests to use bash"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.17-2025-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (179 commits)
perf record: Cache build-ID of hit DSOs only
perf test: Ensure lock contention using pipe mode
perf python: Stop using deprecated PyUnicode_AsString()
perf list: Skip ABI PMUs when printing pmu values
perf list: Remove tracepoint printing code
perf tp_pmu: Add event APIs
perf tp_pmu: Factor existing tracepoint logic to new file
perf parse-events: Remove non-json software events
perf jevents: Add common software event json
perf tools: Remove libtraceevent in .gitignore
perf test: Fix comment ordering
perf sort: Use perf_env to set arch sort keys and header
perf test: Move PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT parsing to common test
perf sample: Remove arch notion of sample parsing
perf env: Remove global perf_env
perf trace: Avoid global perf_env with evsel__env
perf auxtrace: Pass perf_env from session through to mmap read
perf machine: Explicitly pass in host perf_env
perf bench synthesize: Avoid use of global perf_env
perf top: Make perf_env locally scoped
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Revision tags: v6.16, v6.16-rc7, v6.16-rc6, v6.16-rc5, v6.16-rc4
# 114339ee 28-Jun-2025 Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>

perf build: Specify shellcheck should use bash

When someone has a global shellcheckrc file, for example at
~/.config/shellcheckrc, with the directive 'shell=sh', building perf
will fail with many sh

perf build: Specify shellcheck should use bash

When someone has a global shellcheckrc file, for example at
~/.config/shellcheckrc, with the directive 'shell=sh', building perf
will fail with many shellcheck errors like:

In tests/shell/base_probe/test_adding_kernel.sh line 294:
(( TEST_RESULT += $? ))
^---------------------^ SC3006 (warning): In POSIX sh, standalone ((..)) is undefined.

For more information:
https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC3006 -- In POSIX sh, standalone ((..)) is...
make[5]: *** [tests/Build:91: tests/shell/base_probe/test_adding_kernel.sh.shellcheck_log] Error 1

Passing the '-s bash' option ensures that it runs correctly regardless
of a developers global configuration.

This patch adds '-s bash' and other options to the SHELLCHECK variable
in Makefile.perf and makes use of the variable consistently.

Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/63491dbc8439edf2e949d80e264b9d22332fea61.1751082075.git.collin.funk1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: v6.16-rc3, v6.16-rc2, v6.16-rc1
# bbfd5594 28-May-2025 Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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

Need to pull in a67221b5eb8d ("drm/i915/dp: Return min bpc supported by source instead of 0")
in order to fix build breakage on GCC 9.4.0 (from Ubuntu 20.04

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

Need to pull in a67221b5eb8d ("drm/i915/dp: Return min bpc supported by source instead of 0")
in order to fix build breakage on GCC 9.4.0 (from Ubuntu 20.04).

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

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Revision tags: v6.15, v6.15-rc7
# db5302ae 16-May-2025 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

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

Backmerge to sync with v6.15-rc, xe, and specifically async flip changes
in drm-misc.

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


# 4f978603 02-Jun-2025 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.16 merge window.


# d51b9d81 16-May-2025 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v6.15-rc6' into next

Sync up with mainline to bring in xpad controller changes.


Revision tags: v6.15-rc6, v6.15-rc5
# 844e31bb 29-Apr-2025 Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

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

Merge drm-misc-next to get commit Fixes: fec450ca15af ("drm/display:
hdmi: provide central data authority for ACR params").

Signe

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

Merge drm-misc-next to get commit Fixes: fec450ca15af ("drm/display:
hdmi: provide central data authority for ACR params").

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

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Revision tags: v6.15-rc4
# 3ab7ae8e 24-Apr-2025 Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>

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

Backmerge to bring in linux 6.15-rc.

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


Revision tags: v6.15-rc3, v6.15-rc2
# 1afba39f 07-Apr-2025 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

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

Backmerging to get v6.15-rc1 into drm-misc-next. Also fixes a
build issue when enabling CONFIG_DRM_SCHED_KUNIT_TEST.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm

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

Backmerging to get v6.15-rc1 into drm-misc-next. Also fixes a
build issue when enabling CONFIG_DRM_SCHED_KUNIT_TEST.

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

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# 9f13acb2 11-Apr-2025 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v6.15-rc1' into x86/cpu, to refresh the branch with upstream changes

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


# 6ce0fdaa 09-Apr-2025 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v6.15-rc1' into x86/asm, to refresh the branch

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


# 1260ed77 08-Apr-2025 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

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

Backmerging to get updates from v6.15-rc1.

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


Revision tags: v6.15-rc1
# 946661e3 05-Apr-2025 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.15 merge window.


Revision tags: v6.14, v6.14-rc7, v6.14-rc6, v6.14-rc5
# 0b119045 26-Feb-2025 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v6.14-rc4' into next

Sync up with the mainline.


# 802f0d58 31-Mar-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.15-2025-03-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

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

- Introduce latency profili

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.15-2025-03-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

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

- Introduce latency profiling using scheduler information.

The latency profiling is to show impacts on wall-time rather than
cpu-time. By tracking context switches, it can weight samples and
find which part of the code contributed more to the execution
latency.

The value (period) of the sample is weighted by dividing it by the
number of parallel execution at the moment. The parallelism is
tracked in perf report with sched-switch records. This will reduce
the portion that are run in parallel and in turn increase the
portion of serial executions.

For now, it's limited to profile processes, IOW system-wide
profiling is not supported. You can add --latency option to enable
this.

$ perf record --latency -- make -C tools/perf

I've run the above command for perf build which adds -j option to
make with the number of CPUs in the system internally. Normally
it'd show something like below:

$ perf report -F overhead,comm
...
#
# Overhead Command
# ........ ...............
#
78.97% cc1
6.54% python3
4.21% shellcheck
3.28% ld
1.80% as
1.37% cc1plus
0.80% sh
0.62% clang
0.56% gcc
0.44% perl
0.39% make
...

The cc1 takes around 80% of the overhead as it's the actual
compiler. However it runs in parallel so its contribution to
latency may be less than that. Now, perf report will show both
overhead and latency (if --latency was given at record time) like
below:

$ perf report -s comm
...
#
# Overhead Latency Command
# ........ ........ ...............
#
78.97% 48.66% cc1
6.54% 25.68% python3
4.21% 0.39% shellcheck
3.28% 13.70% ld
1.80% 2.56% as
1.37% 3.08% cc1plus
0.80% 0.98% sh
0.62% 0.61% clang
0.56% 0.33% gcc
0.44% 1.71% perl
0.39% 0.83% make
...

You can see latency of cc1 goes down to around 50% and python3 and
ld contribute a lot more than their overhead. You can use --latency
option in perf report to get the same result but ordered by
latency.

$ perf report --latency -s comm

perf report:

- As a side effect of the latency profiling work, it adds a new
output field 'latency' and a sort key 'parallelism'. The below is a
result from my system with 64 CPUs. The build was well-parallelized
but contained some serial portions.

$ perf report -s parallelism
...
#
# Overhead Latency Parallelism
# ........ ........ ...........
#
16.95% 1.54% 62
13.38% 1.24% 61
12.50% 70.47% 1
11.81% 1.06% 63
7.59% 0.71% 60
4.33% 12.20% 2
3.41% 0.33% 59
2.05% 0.18% 64
1.75% 1.09% 9
1.64% 1.85% 5
...

- Support Feodra mini-debuginfo which is a LZMA compressed symbol
table inside ".gnu_debugdata" ELF section.

perf annotate:

- Add --code-with-type option to enable data-type profiling with the
usual annotate output.

Instead of focusing on data structure, it shows code annotation
together with data type it accesses in case the instruction refers
to a memory location (and it was able to resolve the target data
type). Currently it only works with --stdio.

$ perf annotate --stdio --code-with-type
...
Percent | Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux for cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=30/pp (18 samples, percent: local period)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
: 0 0xffffffff81050610 <__fdget>:
0.00 : ffffffff81050610: callq 0xffffffff81c01b80 <__fentry__> # data-type: (stack operation)
0.00 : ffffffff81050615: pushq %rbp # data-type: (stack operation)
0.00 : ffffffff81050616: movq %rsp, %rbp
0.00 : ffffffff81050619: pushq %r15 # data-type: (stack operation)
0.00 : ffffffff8105061b: pushq %r14 # data-type: (stack operation)
0.00 : ffffffff8105061d: pushq %rbx # data-type: (stack operation)
0.00 : ffffffff8105061e: subq $0x10, %rsp
0.00 : ffffffff81050622: movl %edi, %ebx
0.00 : ffffffff81050624: movq %gs:0x7efc4814(%rip), %rax # 0x14e40 <current_task> # data-type: struct task_struct* +0
0.00 : ffffffff8105062c: movq 0x8d0(%rax), %r14 # data-type: struct task_struct +0x8d0 (files)
0.00 : ffffffff81050633: movl (%r14), %eax # data-type: struct files_struct +0 (count.counter)
0.00 : ffffffff81050636: cmpl $0x1, %eax
0.00 : ffffffff81050639: je 0xffffffff810506a9 <__fdget+0x99>
0.00 : ffffffff8105063b: movq 0x20(%r14), %rcx # data-type: struct files_struct +0x20 (fdt)
0.00 : ffffffff8105063f: movl (%rcx), %eax # data-type: struct fdtable +0 (max_fds)
0.00 : ffffffff81050641: cmpl %ebx, %eax
0.00 : ffffffff81050643: jbe 0xffffffff810506ef <__fdget+0xdf>
0.00 : ffffffff81050649: movl %ebx, %r15d
5.56 : ffffffff8105064c: movq 0x8(%rcx), %rdx # data-type: struct fdtable +0x8 (fd)
...

The "# data-type:" part was added with this change. The first few
entries are not very interesting. But later you can it accesses a
couple of fields in the task_struct, files_struct and fdtable.

perf trace:

- Support syscall tracing for different ABI. For example it can trace
system calls for 32-bit applications on 64-bit kernel
transparently.

- Add --summary-mode=total option to show global syscall summary. The
default is 'thread' to show per-thread syscall summary.

Python support:

- Add more interfaces to 'perf' module to parse events, and config,
enable or disable the event list properly so that it can implement
basic functionalities purely in Python. There is an example code
for these new interfaces in python/tracepoint.py.

- Add mypy and pylint support to enable build time checking. Fix some
code based on the findings from these tools.

Internals:

- Introduce io_dir__readdir() API to make directory traveral (usually
for proc or sysfs) efficient with less memory footprint.

JSON vendor events:

- Add events and metrics for ARM Neoverse N3 and V3

- Update events and metrics on various Intel CPUs

- Add/update events for a number of SiFive processors"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.15-2025-03-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (229 commits)
perf bpf-filter: Fix a parsing error with comma
perf report: Fix a memory leak for perf_env on AMD
perf trace: Fix wrong size to bpf_map__update_elem call
perf tools: annotate asm_pure_loop.S
perf python: Fix setup.py mypy errors
perf test: Address attr.py mypy error
perf build: Add pylint build tests
perf build: Add mypy build tests
perf build: Rename TEST_LOGS to SHELL_TEST_LOGS
tools/build: Don't pass test log files to linker
perf bench sched pipe: fix enforced blocking reads in worker_thread
perf tools: Fix is_compat_mode build break in ppc64
perf build: filter all combinations of -flto for libperl
perf vendor events arm64 AmpereOneX: Fix frontend_bound calculation
perf vendor events arm64: AmpereOne/AmpereOneX: Mark LD_RETIRED impacted by errata
perf trace: Fix evlist memory leak
perf trace: Fix BTF memory leak
perf trace: Make syscall table stable
perf syscalltbl: Mask off ABI type for MIPS system calls
perf build: Remove Makefile.syscalls
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# ef238109 11-Mar-2025 Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

perf build: Rename TEST_LOGS to SHELL_TEST_LOGS

Rename TEST_LOGS to SHELL_TEST_LOGS as later changes will add more
kinds of test logs.
Minor comment tweak in Makefile.perf as more than just test she

perf build: Rename TEST_LOGS to SHELL_TEST_LOGS

Rename TEST_LOGS to SHELL_TEST_LOGS as later changes will add more
kinds of test logs.
Minor comment tweak in Makefile.perf as more than just test shell
tests are checked.

Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311213628.569562-3-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

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# 0410c612 28-Feb-2025 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>

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

Sync to fix conlicts between drm-xe-next and drm-intel-next.

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


Revision tags: v6.14-rc4, v6.14-rc3, v6.14-rc2
# 93c7dd1b 06-Feb-2025 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

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

Bring rc1 to start the new release dev.

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


# ea9f8f2b 05-Feb-2025 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

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

Sync with v6.14-rc1.

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


# c771600c 05-Feb-2025 Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>

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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# b3cc7428 26-Mar-2025 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>

Merge branch 'for-6.15/amd_sfh' into for-linus

From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>

Some platforms include a human presence detection (HPD) sensor. When
enabled and a user is detecte

Merge branch 'for-6.15/amd_sfh' into for-linus

From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>

Some platforms include a human presence detection (HPD) sensor. When
enabled and a user is detected a wake event will be emitted from the
sensor fusion hub that software can react to.

Example use cases are "wake from suspend on approach" or to "lock
when leaving".

This is currently enabled by default on supported systems, but users
can't control it. This essentially means that wake on approach is
enabled which is a really surprising behavior to users that don't
expect it.

Instead of defaulting to enabled add a sysfs knob that users can
use to enable the feature if desirable and set it to disabled by
default.

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Revision tags: v6.14-rc1
# 7685b334 24-Jan-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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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Revision tags: v6.13, v6.13-rc7
# a874d1f6 09-Jan-2025 Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>

perf tools x86: Use generic syscall scripts

Use the generic scripts to generate headers from the syscall table for
both 32- and 64-bit x86.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Tes

perf tools x86: Use generic syscall scripts

Use the generic scripts to generate headers from the syscall table for
both 32- and 64-bit x86.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.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-v6-8-7543b5293098@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Revision tags: v6.13-rc6, v6.13-rc5, v6.13-rc4, v6.13-rc3, v6.13-rc2, v6.13-rc1, v6.12, v6.12-rc7, v6.12-rc6, v6.12-rc5, v6.12-rc4, v6.12-rc3, v6.12-rc2, v6.12-rc1
# 36ec807b 20-Sep-2024 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.12 merge window.


Revision tags: v6.11, v6.11-rc7
# f057b572 06-Sep-2024 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

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

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


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