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 dso: Clean up read_symbol() error handling

Ensure errno is set and return to caller for error handling.

Unusually for perf the value isn't negated as expected by
symbol__strerror_disassemble()

perf dso: Clean up read_symbol() error handling

Ensure errno is set and return to caller for error handling.

Unusually for perf the value isn't negated as expected by
symbol__strerror_disassemble().

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 dso: Move read_symbol() from llvm/capstone to dso

Move the read_symbol function to dso.h, make the return type const and
add a mutable out_buf out parameter.

In future changes this will allow

perf dso: Move read_symbol() from llvm/capstone to dso

Move the read_symbol function to dso.h, make the return type const and
add a mutable out_buf out parameter.

In future changes this will allow a code pointer to be returned without
necessary allocating memory.

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 capstone: Remove open_capstone_handle

open_capstone_handle is similar to capstone_init and used only by
symbol__disassemble_capstone. symbol__disassemble_capstone_powerpc
already uses capstone_

perf capstone: Remove open_capstone_handle

open_capstone_handle is similar to capstone_init and used only by
symbol__disassemble_capstone. symbol__disassemble_capstone_powerpc
already uses capstone_init, transition symbol__disassemble_capstone
and eliminate open_capstone_handle.

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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