Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.2-1-2026-06-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

- Introduce 'perf inject --aslr

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.2-1-2026-06-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

- Introduce 'perf inject --aslr' to remap ASLR-randomized addresses in
perf.data files, enabling reproducible analysis across runs with
different address space layouts

- Refactor evsel out of sample processing paths: store evsel in struct
perf_sample and remove the redundant evsel parameter from tool APIs,
tracepoint handlers, hist entry iterators, and db-export, simplifying
the entire tool callback chain

- Switch architecture detection from string-based perf_env__arch()
comparisons to the numeric ELF e_machine field across the codebase
(capstone, print_insn, c2c, lock-contention, sort, sample-raw,
machine, header), making cross-analysis more robust

- Overhaul ARM CoreSight ETM tests: add deterministic and named_threads
workloads, speed up basic and disassembly tests, add process
attribution and concurrent threads tests, remove unused workloads and
duplicate tests, queue context packets for the frontend decoder

- Add ARM SPE IMPDEF event decoding for Arm Neoverse N1, store MIDR in
arm_spe_pkt for per-CPU event mapping, handle missing CPU IDs
gracefully

- Refactor libunwind support: remove the libunwind-local backend, make
register reading cross-platform, add RISC-V libunwind support, allow
dynamic selection between libdw and libunwind unwinding at runtime

- Extensive hardening of perf.data parsing against crafted files: add
bounds checks and byte-swap validation for session records, feature
sections, header attributes, BPF metadata, auxtrace errors,
compressed events, CPU maps, build ID notes, and ELF program headers.
Add minimum event size validation and file offset diagnostics

- Fix libdw API contract violations across dwarf-aux, libdw,
probe-finder, annotate-data, and debuginfo subsystems. Fix callchain
parent update in ORDER_CALLER mode, support DWARF line 0 in inline
lists, handle multiple address spaces in callchains

- Fix numerous 'perf sched' bugs: thread reference leaks, memory leaks,
heap overflows with cross-machine recordings, NULL dereferences,
replace BUG_ON assertions with graceful error handling, bounds-check
CPU indices, fix SIGCHLD vs pause() races in sched stats

- Overhaul the build system: move BPF skeleton generation out of
Makefile.perf into bpf_skel.mak, decouple pmu-events from the prepare
target, make beauty generated C code standalone .o files, compile BPF
skeletons with -mcpu=v3, fix continuous rebuilds, various cleanups

- Add 'perf test' JUnit XML reporting with -j/--junit option, split
monolithic test suites into sub-tests, add summary reporting,
refactor parallel poll loop, fix test failures on musl-based systems

- Fix 'perf c2c' memory leaks in hist entry and format list handling,
use-after-free in error paths, bounds-check CPU and node IDs

- Fix 'perf bpf' metadata leaks on duplicate insert and alloc failure,
bounds-check array offsets, validate event sizes and func_info
fields, add NULL checks

- Fix hwmon PMU: off-by-one null termination on sysfs reads, strlcpy
buffer overflow in parse_hwmon_filename(), fd 0 check, empty label
reads, scnprintf usage

- Fix symbols subsystem: bounds-check ELF and sysfs build ID note
iteration, validate p_filesz, fix 32-bit ELF bswap error, fix signed
overflow in size checks, bounds-check .gnu_debuglink section

- Fix tools lib api: null termination in filename__read_int/ull(),
uninitialized stack data in filename__write_int(), snprintf
truncation in mount_overload()

- Replace libbabeltrace with babeltrace2-ctf-writer for CTF conversion
in 'perf data'

- Add RISC-V SDT argument parsing for static tracepoints

- Add 'perf trace --show-cpu' option to display CPU id

- Add 'perf bench sched pipe --write-size' option

- Add a perf-specific .clang-format that overrides some kernel style
behaviors

- Update Intel vendor events for Alder Lake, Arrow Lake, Clearwater
Forest, Emerald Rapids, Granite Rapids, Grand Ridge, Lunar Lake,
Meteor Lake, Panther Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Sierra Forest

- Add IOMMU metrics for AMD and Intel

- Fix AMD event: switch l2_itlb_misses to
bp_l1_tlb_miss_l2_tlb_miss.all

- Add AMD IBS improvements: decode Streaming-store and Remote-Socket
flags, suppress bogus fields on Zen4+, skip privilege test on Zen6+

- Fix 'perf lock contention' SIGCHLD vs pause() race, allow 'mmap_lock'
in -L filter, enable end-timestamp for cgroup aggregation, fix
non-atomic data updates

- Fix 'perf stat' false NMI watchdog warning in aggregation modes,
bounds-check CPU index in topology callbacks, add aggr_nr metric
parser support for uncore scaling

- Fix 'perf timechart' memory leaks, CPU bounds checking,
use-after-free on corrupted callchains

- Fix 'perf inject' itrace branch stack synthesis, fix synthesized
sample size with branch stacks

- Fix DSO heap overflow on decompressed paths, uninitialized pathname
on fallback, set proper error codes

- Fix various snprintf/scnprintf usages to prevent buffer overflows and
truncation across the codebase

- Fix off-by-one stack buffer overflow in kallsyms__parse()

- Fix 'perf kwork' memory management, address sanitizer issues, bounds
check work->cpu

- Fix 'perf tpebs' concurrent stop races and PID reuse hazards

- Add O_CLOEXEC to open() calls and use mkostemp() for temporary files
to prevent file descriptor leaks to child processes

- Fix s390 Python extension TEXTREL by compiling as PIC

- Fix build with ASAN for jitdump

- Fix build failure due to btf_vlen() return type change

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.2-1-2026-06-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (343 commits)
perf bpf: Fix up build failure due to change of btf_vlen() return type
perf dso: Set standard errno on decompression failure
perf bpf: Validate array presence before casting BPF prog info pointers
perf c2c: Fix hist entry and format list leaks in c2c_he_free()
perf c2c: Free format list entries when c2c_hists__init() fails
perf cs-etm: Bounds-check CPU in cs_etm__get_queue()
perf cs-etm: Require full global header in auxtrace_info size check
perf cs-etm: Validate num_cpu before metadata allocation
perf machine: Use snprintf() for guestmount path construction
perf machine: Propagate machine__init() error to callers
perf trace: Guard __probe_ip suppression with evsel__is_probe()
perf evsel: Add lazy-initialized probe type detection helpers
perf evsel: Add no-libtraceevent stubs for evsel__field() and evsel__common_field()
perf cs-etm: Reject CPU IDs that would overflow signed comparison
perf c2c: Free format list entries when releasing c2c hist entries
perf bpf: Bounds-check array offsets in bpil_offs_to_addr()
perf bpf: Reject oversized BPF metadata events that truncate header.size
perf bpf: Validate func_info_rec_size and sub_id in synthesize_bpf_prog_name()
perf sched: Replace (void*)1 sentinel with proper runtime allocation
perf hwmon: Fix fd check to accept fd 0 in hwmon_pmu__describe_items()
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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Backmerging to pull in commit 5401b9adebc9 ("i915: don't use
a vma that didn't match the context VM") to revert it.

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.

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

Backmerging to pull in commit 5401b9adebc9 ("i915: don't use
a vma that didn't match the context VM") to revert it.

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

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perf arm_spe: Decode Arm N1 IMPDEF events

>From the TRM [1], N1 has one IMPDEF event which isn't covered by the
common list. Add a framework so that more cores can be added in the
future and that th

perf arm_spe: Decode Arm N1 IMPDEF events

>From the TRM [1], N1 has one IMPDEF event which isn't covered by the
common list. Add a framework so that more cores can be added in the
future and that the N1 IMPDEF event can be decoded. Also increase the
size of the buffer because we're adding more strings and if it gets
truncated it falls back to a hex dump only.

[1]: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/100616/0401/Statistical-Profiling-Extension/implementation-defined-features-of-SPE

Suggested-by: Al Grant <al.grant@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/100616/0401/Statistical-Profiling-Extension/implementation-defined-features-of-SPE
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 7.1 merge window.

Merge tag 'v7.0-rc3' into next

Sync up with the mainline to brig up the latest changes, specifically
changes to ALPS driver.

Merge branch 'for-6.20/sony' into for-linus

- Support for Rock band 4 PS4 and PS5 guitars (Rosalie Wanders)

Merge tag 'v6.19-rc1' into msm-next

Merge Linux 6.19-rc1 in order to catch up with other changes (e.g. UBWC
config database defining UBWC_6).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.q

Merge tag 'v6.19-rc1' into msm-next

Merge Linux 6.19-rc1 in order to catch up with other changes (e.g. UBWC
config database defining UBWC_6).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com>

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

Backmerging to bring in 6.19-rc1. An important upstream bugfix and
to help unblock PTL CI.

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

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf after 6.19-rc1

Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR.

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

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

Sync-up some display code needed for Async flips refactor.

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

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

Let's kickstart the v6.20 (7.0?) release cycle.

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

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.19-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.19

We've been quite busy with fixes since the merge window, though

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.19-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.19

We've been quite busy with fixes since the merge window, though not in
any particularly exciting ways - the standout thing is the fix for _SX
controls which were broken by a change to how we do clamping, otherwise
it's all fairly run of the mill fixes and quirks.

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

Pull in rc1 to include all changes since the merge window closed,
and grab all fixes and changes from drm/drm-next.

Signed-off-by: M

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

Pull in rc1 to include all changes since the merge window closed,
and grab all fixes and changes from drm/drm-next.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@lankhorst.se>

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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 '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