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 srcline: Fallback between addr2line implementations

Factor the addr2line function implementation into separate source files
(addr2line.[ch]) and rename the addr2line function cmd__addr2line. In

perf srcline: Fallback between addr2line implementations

Factor the addr2line function implementation into separate source files
(addr2line.[ch]) and rename the addr2line function cmd__addr2line. In
srcline replace the ifdef-ed addr2line implementations with one that
first tries the llvm__addr2line implementation, then the deprecated
libbfd__addr2line function and on failure uses cmd__addr2line.

If HAVE_LIBLLVM_SUPPORT is enabled the llvm__addr2line will execute
against the libLLVM.so it is linked against.

If HAVE_LIBLLVM_DYNAMIC is enabled then libperf-llvm.so (that links
against libLLVM.so) will be dlopened. If the dlopen succeeds then the
behavior should match HAVE_LIBLLVM_SUPPORT. On failure cmd__addr2line is
used. The dlopen is only tried once.

If HAVE_LIBLLVM_DYNAMIC isn't enabled then llvm__addr2line immediately
fails and cmd__addr2line is used.

Clean up the dso__free_a2l logic, which is only needed in the non-LLVM
version and moved to addr2line.c.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Haibo Xu <haibo1.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Li Huafei <lihuafei1@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf namespaces: Avoid get_current_dir_name dependency

get_current_dir_name is a GNU extension not supported on, for example,
Android. There is only one use of it so let's just switch to getcwd to
a

perf namespaces: Avoid get_current_dir_name dependency

get_current_dir_name is a GNU extension not supported on, for example,
Android. There is only one use of it so let's just switch to getcwd to
avoid build and other complexity.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf libbfd: Move libbfd functionality to its own file

Move symbolization and srcline libbfd dependencies to a separate
libbfd.c. This mirrors moving llvm and capstone code. While this code
is depre

perf libbfd: Move libbfd functionality to its own file

Move symbolization and srcline libbfd dependencies to a separate
libbfd.c. This mirrors moving llvm and capstone code. While this code
is deprecated as it is part of BUILD_NONDISTRO license incompatible
code, moving the code to its own file minimizes disruption in the main
files.

disasm_bpf.c is moved to libbfd.c also except for
symbol__disassemble_bpf_image which is currently more of a placeholder
function rather than something that provides disassembly support.

demangle-cxx.cpp code isn't migrated as it is very limited.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Haibo Xu <haibo1.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Li Huafei <lihuafei1@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf llvm: Move llvm functionality into its own file

LLVM disassembly support was in disasm.c and addr2line support in
srcline.c. Move support out of these files into llvm.[ch] and remove
LLVM inclu

perf llvm: Move llvm functionality into its own file

LLVM disassembly support was in disasm.c and addr2line support in
srcline.c. Move support out of these files into llvm.[ch] and remove
LLVM includes from those files. As disassembly routines can fail, make
failure the only option without HAVE_LIBLLVM_SUPPORT. For simplicity's
sake, duplicate the read_symbol utility function.

The intent with moving LLVM support into a single file is that dynamic
support, using dlopen for libllvm, can be added in later patches. This
can potentially always succeed or fail, so relying on ifdefs isn't
sufficient. Using dlopen is a useful option to minimize the perf tools
dependencies and potentially size.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Haibo Xu <haibo1.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Li Huafei <lihuafei1@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf capstone: Move capstone functionality into its own file

Capstone disassembly support was split between disasm.c and
print_insn.c. Move support out of these files into capstone.[ch] and
remove i

perf capstone: Move capstone functionality into its own file

Capstone disassembly support was split between disasm.c and
print_insn.c. Move support out of these files into capstone.[ch] and
remove include capstone/capstone.h from those files. As disassembly
routines can fail, make failure the only option without
HAVE_LIBCAPSTONE_SUPPORT. For simplicity's sake, duplicate the
read_symbol utility function.

The intent with moving capstone support into a single file is that
dynamic support, using dlopen for libcapstone, can be added in later
patches. This can potentially always succeed or fail, so relying on
ifdefs isn't sufficient. Using dlopen is a useful option to minimize
the perf tools dependencies and potentially size.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Haibo Xu <haibo1.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Li Huafei <lihuafei1@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf powerpc: Process auxtrace events and display in 'perf report -D'

Add VPA DTL PMU auxtrace process function for "perf report -D".
The auxtrace event processing functions are defined in file
"uti

perf powerpc: Process auxtrace events and display in 'perf report -D'

Add VPA DTL PMU auxtrace process function for "perf report -D".
The auxtrace event processing functions are defined in file
"util/powerpc-vpadtl.c".

Data structures used includes "struct powerpc_vpadtl_queue", "struct
powerpc_vpadtl" to store the auxtrace buffers in queue. Different
PERF_RECORD_XXX are generated during recording.

PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE_INFO is processed first since it is of type
perf_user_event_type and perf session event delivers
perf_session__process_user_event() first.

Define function powerpc_vpadtl_process_auxtrace_info() to handle the
processing of PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE_INFO records.

In this function, initialize the aux buffer queues using
auxtrace_queues__init().

Setup the required infrastructure for aux data processing.

The data is collected per CPU and auxtrace_queue is created for each
CPU.

Define powerpc_vpadtl_process_event() function to process
PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE records.

In this, add the event to queue using auxtrace_queues__add_event() and
process the buffer in powerpc_vpadtl_dump_event().

The first entry in the buffer with timebase as zero has boot timebase
and frequency.

Remaining data is of format for "struct powerpc_vpadtl_entry".

Define the translation for dispatch_reasons and preempt_reasons, report
this when dump trace is invoked via powerpc_vpadtl_dump()

Sample output:

./perf record -a -e sched:*,vpa_dtl/dtl_all/ -c 1000000000 sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.300 MB perf.data ]

./perf report -D

0 0 0x39b10 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE size: 0x690 offset: 0 ref: 0 idx: 0 tid: -1 cpu: 0
.
. ... VPA DTL PMU data: size 1680 bytes, entries is 35
. 00000000: boot_tb: 21349649546353231, tb_freq: 512000000
. 00000030: dispatch_reason:decrementer interrupt, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:7064, ready_to_enqueue_time:187, waiting_to_ready_time:6611773
. 00000060: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:146, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:15359437
. 00000090: dispatch_reason:decrementer interrupt, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:4868, ready_to_enqueue_time:232, waiting_to_ready_time:5100709
. 000000c0: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:179, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:30714243
. 000000f0: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:197, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:15350648
. 00000120: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:213, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:15353446
. 00000150: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:212, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:15355126
. 00000180: dispatch_reason:decrementer interrupt, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:6368, ready_to_enqueue_time:164, waiting_to_ready_time:5104665

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>

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

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

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

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.17 merge window.

Merge tag 'ib-mfd-gpio-input-pwm-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd into next

Merge an immutable branch between MFD, GPIO, Input and PWM to resolve
conflicts for the mer

Merge tag 'ib-mfd-gpio-input-pwm-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd into next

Merge an immutable branch between MFD, GPIO, Input and PWM to resolve
conflicts for the merge window pull request.

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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 */
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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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Merge branch 'for-6.17/amd-sfh' into for-linus

- add support for operating modes (Basavaraj Natikar)

perf tp_pmu: Factor existing tracepoint logic to new file

Start the creation of a tracepoint PMU abstraction. Tracepoint events
don't follow the regular sysfs perf conventions. Eventually the new
PM

perf tp_pmu: Factor existing tracepoint logic to new file

Start the creation of a tracepoint PMU abstraction. Tracepoint events
don't follow the regular sysfs perf conventions. Eventually the new
PMU abstraction will bridge the gap so tracepoint events look more
like regular perf ones.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250725185202.68671-5-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

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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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perf util: add a basic SHA-1 implementation

SHA-1 can be written in fewer than 100 lines of code. Just add a basic
SHA-1 implementation so that there's no need to use an external library
or try to

perf util: add a basic SHA-1 implementation

SHA-1 can be written in fewer than 100 lines of code. Just add a basic
SHA-1 implementation so that there's no need to use an external library
or try to pull in the kernel's SHA-1 implementation. The kernel's SHA-1
implementation is not really intended to be pulled into userspace
programs in the way that it was proposed to do so for perf
(https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250521225307.743726-3-yuzhuo@google.com/),
and it's also likely to undergo some refactoring in the future. There's
no need to tie userspace tools to it.

Include a test for sha1() in the util test suite.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625202311.23244-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

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perf trace: Split BPF skel code to util/bpf_trace_augment.c

And make builtin-trace.c less conditional. Dummy functions will be
called when BUILD_BPF_SKEL=0 is used. This makes the builtin-trace.c

perf trace: Split BPF skel code to util/bpf_trace_augment.c

And make builtin-trace.c less conditional. Dummy functions will be
called when BUILD_BPF_SKEL=0 is used. This makes the builtin-trace.c
slightly smaller and simpler by removing the skeleton and its helpers.

The conditional guard of trace__init_syscalls_bpf_prog_array_maps() is
changed from the HAVE_BPF_SKEL to HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT as it doesn't
have a skeleton in the code directly. And a dummy function is added so
that it can be called unconditionally. The function will succeed only
if the both conditions are true.

Do not include trace_augment.h from the BPF code and move the definition
of TRACE_AUG_MAX_BUF to the BPF directly.

Reviewed-by: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250623225721.21553-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

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perf drm_pmu: Add a tool like PMU to expose DRM information

DRM clients expose information through usage stats as documented in
Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst (available online at
https://doc

perf drm_pmu: Add a tool like PMU to expose DRM information

DRM clients expose information through usage stats as documented in
Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst (available online at
https://docs.kernel.org/gpu/drm-usage-stats.html). Add a tool like
PMU, similar to the hwmon PMU, that exposes DRM information. For
example on a tigerlake laptop:
```
$ perf list drm

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

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]
drm-engine-video-enhance
[Utilization in ns. Unit: drm_i915]
drm-purgeable-stolen-system0
[Size of resident and purgeable memory bufers. Unit: drm_i915]
drm-purgeable-system0
[Size of resident and purgeable memory bufers. Unit: drm_i915]
drm-resident-stolen-system0
[Size of resident memory bufers. Unit: drm_i915]
drm-resident-system0
[Size of resident memory bufers. Unit: drm_i915]
drm-shared-stolen-system0
[Size of shared memory bufers. Unit: drm_i915]
drm-shared-system0
[Size of shared memory bufers. Unit: drm_i915]
drm-total-stolen-system0
[Size of shared and private memory. Unit: drm_i915]
drm-total-system0
[Size of shared and private memory. Unit: drm_i915]
```

System wide data can be gathered:
```
$ perf stat -x, -I 1000 -e drm-active-stolen-system0,drm-active-system0,drm-engine-capacity-video,drm-engine-copy,drm-engine-render,drm-engine-video,drm-engine-video-enhance,drm-purgeable-stolen-system0,drm-purgeable-system0,drm-resident-stolen-system0,drm-resident-system0,drm-shared-stolen-system0,drm-shared-system0,drm-total-stolen-system0,drm-total-system0
1.000904910,0,bytes,drm-active-stolen-system0,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,0,bytes,drm-active-system0,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,36,capacity,drm-engine-capacity-video,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,0,ns,drm-engine-copy,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,1472970566175,ns,drm-engine-render,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,0,ns,drm-engine-video,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,0,ns,drm-engine-video-enhance,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,0,bytes,drm-purgeable-stolen-system0,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,38199296,bytes,drm-purgeable-system0,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,0,bytes,drm-resident-stolen-system0,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,4643196928,bytes,drm-resident-system0,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,0,bytes,drm-shared-stolen-system0,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,1886871552,bytes,drm-shared-system0,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,0,bytes,drm-total-stolen-system0,1,100.00,,
1.000904910,4643196928,bytes,drm-total-system0,1,100.00,,
2.264426839,0,bytes,drm-active-stolen-system0,1,100.00,,
```

Or for a particular process:
```
$ perf stat -x, -I 1000 -e drm-active-stolen-system0,drm-active-system0,drm-engine-capacity-video,drm-engine-copy,drm-engine-render,drm-engine-video,drm-engine-video-enhance,drm-purgeable-stolen-system0,drm-purgeable-system0,drm-resident-stolen-system0,drm-resident-system0,drm-shared-stolen-system0,drm-shared-system0,drm-total-stolen-system0,drm-total-system0 -p 200027
1.001040274,0,bytes,drm-active-stolen-system0,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,0,bytes,drm-active-system0,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,12,capacity,drm-engine-capacity-video,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,0,ns,drm-engine-copy,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,1542300,ns,drm-engine-render,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,0,ns,drm-engine-video,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,0,ns,drm-engine-video-enhance,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,0,bytes,drm-purgeable-stolen-system0,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,13516800,bytes,drm-purgeable-system0,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,0,bytes,drm-resident-stolen-system0,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,27746304,bytes,drm-resident-system0,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,0,bytes,drm-shared-stolen-system0,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,0,bytes,drm-shared-system0,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,0,bytes,drm-total-stolen-system0,6,100.00,,
1.001040274,27746304,bytes,drm-total-system0,6,100.00,,
2.016629075,0,bytes,drm-active-stolen-system0,6,100.00,,
```

As with the hwmon PMU, high numbered PMU types are used to encode
multiple possible "DRM" PMUs. The appropriate fdinfo is found by
scanning /proc and filtering which fdinfos to read with stat. To avoid
some unneeding scanning, events not starting with "drm-" are
ignored. The patch builds on commit 57e13264dcea ("perf pmus:
Restructure pmu_read_sysfs to scan fewer PMUs") and later so that only
if full wild carding is being done, the PMU starts with "drm_" or the
event starts with "drm-" will /proc be scanned. That is there should
be little to no cost in this PMU unless DRM events are requested.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250624231837.179536-3-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

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