Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.12-1-2024-09-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

- Use BPF + BTF to collect and

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.12-1-2024-09-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

- Use BPF + BTF to collect and pretty print syscall and tracepoint
arguments in 'perf trace', done as an GSoC activity

- Data-type profiling improvements:

- Cache debuginfo to speed up data type resolution

- Add the 'typecln' sort order, to show which cacheline in a target
is hot or cold. The following shows members in the cfs_rq's first
cache line:

$ perf report -s type,typecln,typeoff -H
...
- 2.67% struct cfs_rq
+ 1.23% struct cfs_rq: cache-line 2
+ 0.57% struct cfs_rq: cache-line 4
+ 0.46% struct cfs_rq: cache-line 6
- 0.41% struct cfs_rq: cache-line 0
0.39% struct cfs_rq +0x14 (h_nr_running)
0.02% struct cfs_rq +0x38 (tasks_timeline.rb_leftmost)

- When a typedef resolves to a unnamed struct, use the typedef name

- When a struct has just one basic type field (int, etc), resolve
the type sort order to the name of the struct, not the type of
the field

- Support type folding/unfolding in the data-type annotation TUI

- Fix bitfields offsets and sizes

- Initial support for PowerPC, using libcapstone and the usual
objdump disassembly parsing routines

- Add support for disassembling and addr2line using the LLVM libraries,
speeding up those operations

- Support --addr2line option in 'perf script' as with other tools

- Intel branch counters (LBR event logging) support, only available in
recent Intel processors, for instance, the new "brcntr" field can be
asked from 'perf script' to print the information collected from this
feature:

$ perf script -F +brstackinsn,+brcntr

# Branch counter abbr list:
# branch-instructions:ppp = A
# branch-misses = B
# '-' No event occurs
# '+' Event occurrences may be lost due to branch counter saturated
tchain_edit 332203 3366329.405674: 53030 branch-instructions:ppp: 401781 f3+0x2c (home/sdp/test/tchain_edit)
f3+31:
0000000000401774 insn: eb 04 br_cntr: AA # PRED 5 cycles [5]
000000000040177a insn: 81 7d fc 0f 27 00 00
0000000000401781 insn: 7e e3 br_cntr: A # PRED 1 cycles [6] 2.00 IPC
0000000000401766 insn: 8b 45 fc
0000000000401769 insn: 83 e0 01
000000000040176c insn: 85 c0
000000000040176e insn: 74 06 br_cntr: A # PRED 1 cycles [7] 4.00 IPC
0000000000401776 insn: 83 45 fc 01
000000000040177a insn: 81 7d fc 0f 27 00 00
0000000000401781 insn: 7e e3 br_cntr: A # PRED 7 cycles [14] 0.43 IPC

- Support Timed PEBS (Precise Event-Based Sampling), a recent hardware
feature in Intel processors

- Add 'perf ftrace profile' subcommand, using ftrace's function-graph
tracer so that users can see the total, average, max execution time
as well as the number of invocations easily, for instance:

$ sudo perf ftrace profile -G __x64_sys_perf_event_open -- \
perf stat -e cycles -C1 true 2> /dev/null | head
# Total (us) Avg (us) Max (us) Count Function
65.611 65.611 65.611 1 __x64_sys_perf_event_open
30.527 30.527 30.527 1 anon_inode_getfile
30.260 30.260 30.260 1 __anon_inode_getfile
29.700 29.700 29.700 1 alloc_file_pseudo
17.578 17.578 17.578 1 d_alloc_pseudo
17.382 17.382 17.382 1 __d_alloc
16.738 16.738 16.738 1 kmem_cache_alloc_lru
15.686 15.686 15.686 1 perf_event_alloc
14.012 7.006 11.264 2 obj_cgroup_charge

- 'perf sched timehist' improvements, including the addition of
priority showing/filtering command line options

- Varios improvements to the 'perf probe', including 'perf test'
regression testings

- Introduce the 'perf check', initially to check if some feature is
in place, using it in 'perf test'

- Various fixes for 32-bit systems

- Address more leak sanitizer failures

- Fix memory leaks (LBR, disasm lock ops, etc)

- More reference counting fixes (branch_info, etc)

- Constify 'struct perf_tool' parameters to improve code generation
and reduce the chances of having its internals changed, which isn't
expected

- More constifications in various other places

- Add more build tests, including for JEVENTS

- Add more 'perf test' entries ('perf record LBR', pipe/inject,
--setup-filter, 'perf ftrace', 'cgroup sampling', etc)

- Inject build ids for all entries in a call chain in 'perf inject',
not just for the main sample

- Improve the BPF based sample filter, allowing root to setup filters
in bpffs that then can be used by non-root users

- Allow filtering by cgroups with the BPF based sample filter

- Allow a more compact way for 'perf mem report' using the
-T/--type-profile and also provide a --sort option similar to the one
in 'perf report', 'perf top', to setup the sort order manually

- Fix --group behavior in 'perf annotate' when leader has no samples,
where it was not showing anything even when other events in the group
had samples

- Fix spinlock and rwlock accounting in 'perf lock contention'

- Fix libsubcmd fixdep Makefile dependencies

- Improve 'perf ftrace' error message when ftrace isn't available

- Update various Intel JSON vendor event files

- ARM64 CoreSight hardware tracing infrastructure improvements, mostly
not visible to users

- Update power10 JSON events

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.12-1-2024-09-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (310 commits)
perf trace: Mark the 'head' arg in the set_robust_list syscall as coming from user space
perf trace: Mark the 'rseq' arg in the rseq syscall as coming from user space
perf env: Find correct branch counter info on hybrid
perf evlist: Print hint for group
tools: Drop nonsensical -O6
perf pmu: To info add event_type_desc
perf evsel: Add accessor for tool_event
perf pmus: Fake PMU clean up
perf list: Avoid potential out of bounds memory read
perf help: Fix a typo ("bellow")
perf ftrace: Detect whether ftrace is enabled on system
perf test shell probe_vfs_getname: Remove extraneous '=' from probe line number regex
perf build: Require at least clang 16.0.6 to build BPF skeletons
perf trace: If a syscall arg is marked as 'const', assume it is coming _from_ userspace
perf parse-events: Remove duplicated include in parse-events.c
perf callchain: Allow symbols to be optional when resolving a callchain
perf inject: Lazy build-id mmap2 event insertion
perf inject: Add new mmap2-buildid-all option
perf inject: Fix build ID injection
perf annotate-data: Add pr_debug_scope()
...

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perf evlist: Introduce method to find if there is a bpf-output event

We'll use it in the next patch, to deciding how to set up the ring
buffer.

Signed-off-by: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Tes

perf evlist: Introduce method to find if there is a bpf-output event

We'll use it in the next patch, to deciding how to set up the ring
buffer.

Signed-off-by: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240815013626.935097-2-howardchu95@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf evlist: Save branch counters information

The branch counters logging (A.K.A LBR event logging) introduces a
per-counter indication of precise event occurrences in LBRs. The kernel
only dumps th

perf evlist: Save branch counters information

The branch counters logging (A.K.A LBR event logging) introduces a
per-counter indication of precise event occurrences in LBRs. The kernel
only dumps the number of occurrences into a record. The perf tool has
to map the number to the corresponding event.

Add evlist__update_br_cntr() to go through the evlist to pick the
events that are configured to be logged. Assign a logical idx to track
them, and add the total number of the events in the leader event.

The total number will be used to allocate the space to save the branch
counters for a block. The logical idx will be used to locate the
corresponding event quickly in the following patches.

It only needs to iterate the evlist once. The
evsel__has_branch_counters() is also optimized.

Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240813160208.2493643-4-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf bpf-filter: Pass 'target' to perf_bpf_filter__prepare()

This is needed to prepare target-specific actions in the later patch.
We want to reuse the pinned BPF program and map for regular users t

perf bpf-filter: Pass 'target' to perf_bpf_filter__prepare()

This is needed to prepare target-specific actions in the later patch.
We want to reuse the pinned BPF program and map for regular users to
profile their own processes.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703223035.2024586-3-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.11 merge window.

Merge tag 'v6.9' into next

Sync up with the mainline to bring in the new cleanup API.

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

Some display refactoring patches are needed in order to allow conflict-
less merging.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>

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

Sync to get the drm_printer changes to drm-intel-next.

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

Merge branch 'for-6.9/amd-sfh' into for-linus

- assorted fixes and optimizations for amd-sfh (Basavaraj Natikar)

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

Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2024-02-08' into msm-next

Merge the drm-misc tree to uprev MSM CI.

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

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

Kickstart 6.9 development cycle.

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

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

Sync to v6.8-rc1.

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

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

Backmerge to bring Xe driver to drm-intel-next.

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

Merge tag 'v6.8-rc4' into x86/percpu, to resolve conflicts and refresh the branch

Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@k

Merge tag 'v6.8-rc4' into x86/percpu, to resolve conflicts and refresh the branch

Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h

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

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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mm, to refresh the branch and pick up fixes

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

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR.

No conflicts or adjacent changes.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'master' into mm-hotfixes-stable

Merge v6.8-rc1 into drm-misc-fixes

Let's kickstart the 6.8 fix cycle.

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

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.8-1-2024-01-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
"Add Namhyung Kim as tools/perf/

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.8-1-2024-01-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
"Add Namhyung Kim as tools/perf/ co-maintainer, we're taking turns
processing patches, switching roles from perf-tools to perf-tools-next
at each Linux release.

Data profiling:

- Associate samples that identify loads and stores with data
structures. This uses events available on Intel, AMD and others and
DWARF info:

# To get memory access samples in kernel for 1 second (on Intel)
$ perf mem record -a -K --ldlat=4 -- sleep 1

# Similar for the AMD (but it requires 6.3+ kernel for BPF filters)
$ perf mem record -a --filter 'mem_op == load || mem_op == store, ip > 0x8000000000000000' -- sleep 1

Then, amongst several modes of post processing, one can do things like:

$ perf report -s type,typeoff --hierarchy --group --stdio
...
#
# Samples: 10K of events 'cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=4/P, cpu/mem-stores/P, dummy:u'
# Event count (approx.): 602758064
#
# Overhead Data Type / Data Type Offset
# ........................... ............................
#
26.09% 3.28% 0.00% long unsigned int
26.09% 3.28% 0.00% long unsigned int +0 (no field)
18.48% 0.73% 0.00% struct page
10.83% 0.02% 0.00% struct page +8 (lru.next)
3.90% 0.28% 0.00% struct page +0 (flags)
3.45% 0.06% 0.00% struct page +24 (mapping)
0.25% 0.28% 0.00% struct page +48 (_mapcount.counter)
0.02% 0.06% 0.00% struct page +32 (index)
0.02% 0.00% 0.00% struct page +52 (_refcount.counter)
0.02% 0.01% 0.00% struct page +56 (memcg_data)
0.00% 0.01% 0.00% struct page +16 (lru.prev)
15.37% 17.54% 0.00% (stack operation)
15.37% 17.54% 0.00% (stack operation) +0 (no field)
11.71% 50.27% 0.00% (unknown)
11.71% 50.27% 0.00% (unknown) +0 (no field)

$ perf annotate --data-type
...
Annotate type: 'struct cfs_rq' in [kernel.kallsyms] (13 samples):
============================================================================
samples offset size field
13 0 640 struct cfs_rq {
2 0 16 struct load_weight load {
2 0 8 unsigned long weight;
0 8 4 u32 inv_weight;
};
0 16 8 unsigned long runnable_weight;
0 24 4 unsigned int nr_running;
1 28 4 unsigned int h_nr_running;
...

$ perf annotate --data-type=page --group
Annotate type: 'struct page' in [kernel.kallsyms] (480 samples):
event[0] = cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=4/P
event[1] = cpu/mem-stores/P
event[2] = dummy:u
===================================================================================
samples offset size field
447 33 0 0 64 struct page {
108 8 0 0 8 long unsigned int flags;
319 13 0 8 40 union {
319 13 0 8 40 struct {
236 2 0 8 16 union {
236 2 0 8 16 struct list_head lru {
236 1 0 8 8 struct list_head* next;
0 1 0 16 8 struct list_head* prev;
};
236 2 0 8 16 struct {
236 1 0 8 8 void* __filler;
0 1 0 16 4 unsigned int mlock_count;
};
236 2 0 8 16 struct list_head buddy_list {
236 1 0 8 8 struct list_head* next;
0 1 0 16 8 struct list_head* prev;
};
236 2 0 8 16 struct list_head pcp_list {
236 1 0 8 8 struct list_head* next;
0 1 0 16 8 struct list_head* prev;
};
};
82 4 0 24 8 struct address_space* mapping;
1 7 0 32 8 union {
1 7 0 32 8 long unsigned int index;
1 7 0 32 8 long unsigned int share;
};
0 0 0 40 8 long unsigned int private;
};

This uses the existing annotate code, calling objdump to do the
disassembly, with improvements to avoid having this take too long,
but longer term a switch to a disassembler library, possibly
reusing code in the kernel will be pursued.

This is the initial implementation, please use it and report
impressions and bugs. Make sure the kernel-debuginfo packages match
the running kernel. The 'perf report' phase for non short perf.data
files may take a while.

There is a great article about it on LWN:

https://lwn.net/Articles/955709/ - "Data-type profiling for perf"

One last test I did while writing this text, on a AMD Ryzen 5950X,
using a distro kernel, while doing a simple 'find /' on an
otherwise idle system resulted in:

# uname -r
6.6.9-100.fc38.x86_64
# perf -vv | grep BPF_
bpf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT
bpf_skeletons: [ on ] # HAVE_BPF_SKEL
# rpm -qa | grep kernel-debuginfo
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-6.6.9-100.fc38.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-6.6.9-100.fc38.x86_64
#
# perf mem record -a --filter 'mem_op == load || mem_op == store, ip > 0x8000000000000000'
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.199 MB perf.data (2913 samples) ]
#
# ls -la perf.data
-rw-------. 1 root root 2346486 Jan 9 18:36 perf.data
# perf evlist
ibs_op//
dummy:u
# perf evlist -v
ibs_op//: type: 11, size: 136, config: 0, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ADDR|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER|DATA_SRC|WEIGHT, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, freq: 1, sample_id_all: 1
dummy:u: type: 1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE), size: 136, config: 0x9 (PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY), { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ADDR|CPU|IDENTIFIER|DATA_SRC|WEIGHT, read_format: ID, inherit: 1, exclude_kernel: 1, exclude_hv: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, task: 1, mmap_data: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1
#
# perf report -s type,typeoff --hierarchy --group --stdio
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 2K of events 'ibs_op//, dummy:u'
# Event count (approx.): 1904553038
#
# Overhead Data Type / Data Type Offset
# ................... ............................
#
73.70% 0.00% (unknown)
73.70% 0.00% (unknown) +0 (no field)
3.01% 0.00% long unsigned int
3.00% 0.00% long unsigned int +0 (no field)
0.01% 0.00% long unsigned int +2 (no field)
2.73% 0.00% struct task_struct
1.71% 0.00% struct task_struct +52 (on_cpu)
0.38% 0.00% struct task_struct +2104 (rcu_read_unlock_special.b.blocked)
0.23% 0.00% struct task_struct +2100 (rcu_read_lock_nesting)
0.14% 0.00% struct task_struct +2384 ()
0.06% 0.00% struct task_struct +3096 (signal)
0.05% 0.00% struct task_struct +3616 (cgroups)
0.05% 0.00% struct task_struct +2344 (active_mm)
0.02% 0.00% struct task_struct +46 (flags)
0.02% 0.00% struct task_struct +2096 (migration_disabled)
0.01% 0.00% struct task_struct +24 (__state)
0.01% 0.00% struct task_struct +3956 (mm_cid_active)
0.01% 0.00% struct task_struct +1048 (cpus_ptr)
0.01% 0.00% struct task_struct +184 (se.group_node.next)
0.01% 0.00% struct task_struct +20 (thread_info.cpu)
0.00% 0.00% struct task_struct +104 (on_rq)
0.00% 0.00% struct task_struct +2456 (pid)
1.36% 0.00% struct module
0.59% 0.00% struct module +952 (kallsyms)
0.42% 0.00% struct module +0 (state)
0.23% 0.00% struct module +8 (list.next)
0.12% 0.00% struct module +216 (syms)
0.95% 0.00% struct inode
0.41% 0.00% struct inode +40 (i_sb)
0.22% 0.00% struct inode +0 (i_mode)
0.06% 0.00% struct inode +76 (i_rdev)
0.06% 0.00% struct inode +56 (i_security)
<SNIP>

perf top/report:

- Don't ignore job control, allowing control+Z + bg to work.

- Add s390 raw data interpretation for PAI (Processor Activity
Instrumentation) counters.

perf archive:

- Add new option '--all' to pack perf.data with DSOs.

- Add new option '--unpack' to expand tarballs.

Initialization speedups:

- Lazily initialize zstd streams to save memory when not using it.

- Lazily allocate/size mmap event copy.

- Lazy load kernel symbols in 'perf record'.

- Be lazier in allocating lost samples buffer in 'perf record'.

- Don't synthesize BPF events when disabled via the command line
(perf record --no-bpf-event).

Assorted improvements:

- Show note on AMD systems that the :p, :pp, :ppp and :P are all the
same, as IBS (Instruction Based Sampling) is used and it is
inherentely precise, not having levels of precision like in Intel
systems.

- When 'cycles' isn't available, fall back to the "task-clock" event
when not system wide, not to 'cpu-clock'.

- Add --debug-file option to redirect debug output, e.g.:

$ perf --debug-file /tmp/perf.log record -v true

- Shrink 'struct map' to under one cacheline by avoiding function
pointers for selecting if addresses are identity or DSO relative,
and using just a byte for some boolean struct members.

- Resolve the arch specific strerrno just once to use in
perf_env__arch_strerrno().

- Reduce memory for recording PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES event.

Assorted fixes:

- Fix the default 'perf top' usage on Intel hybrid systems, now it
starts with a browser showing the number of samples for Efficiency
(cpu_atom/cycles/P) and Performance (cpu_core/cycles/P). This
behaviour is similar on ARM64, with its respective set of
big.LITTLE processors.

- Fix segfault on build_mem_topology() error path.

- Fix 'perf mem' error on hybrid related to availability of mem event
in a PMU.

- Fix missing reference count gets (map, maps) in the db-export code.

- Avoid recursively taking env->bpf_progs.lock in the 'perf_env'
code.

- Use the newly introduced maps__for_each_map() to add missing
locking around iteration of 'struct map' entries.

- Parse NOTE segments until the build id is found, don't stop on the
first one, ELF files may have several such NOTE segments.

- Remove 'egrep' usage, its deprecated, use 'grep -E' instead.

- Warn first about missing libelf, not libbpf, that depends on
libelf.

- Use alternative to 'find ... -printf' as this isn't supported in
busybox.

- Address python 3.6 DeprecationWarning for string scapes.

- Fix memory leak in uniq() in libsubcmd.

- Fix man page formatting for 'perf lock'

- Fix some spelling mistakes.

perf tests:

- Fail shell tests that needs some symbol in perf itself if it is
stripped. These tests check if a symbol is resolved, if some hot
function is indeed detected by profiling, etc.

- The 'perf test sigtrap' test is currently failing on PREEMPT_RT,
skip it if sleeping spinlocks are detected (using BTF) and point to
the mailing list discussion about it. This test is also being
skipped on several architectures (powerpc, s390x, arm and aarch64)
due to other pending issues with intruction breakpoints.

- Adjust test case perf record offcpu profiling tests for s390.

- Fix 'Setup struct perf_event_attr' fails on s390 on z/VM guest,
addressing issues caused by the fallback from cycles to task-clock
done in this release.

- Fix mask for VG register in the user-regs test.

- Use shellcheck on 'perf test' shell scripts automatically to make
sure changes don't introduce things it flags as problematic.

- Add option to change objdump binary and allow it to be set via
'perf config'.

- Add basic 'perf script', 'perf list --json" and 'perf diff' tests.

- Basic branch counter support.

- Make DSO tests a suite rather than individual.

- Remove atomics from test_loop to avoid test failures.

- Fix call chain match on powerpc for the record+probe_libc_inet_pton
test.

- Improve Intel hybrid tests.

Vendor event files (JSON):

powerpc:

- Update datasource event name to fix duplicate events on IBM's
Power10.

- Add PVN for HX-C2000 CPU with Power8 Architecture.

Intel:

- Alderlake/rocketlake metric fixes.

- Update emeraldrapids events to v1.02.

- Update icelakex events to v1.23.

- Update sapphirerapids events to v1.17.

- Add skx, clx, icx and spr upi bandwidth metric.

AMD:

- Add Zen 4 memory controller events.

RISC-V:

- Add StarFive Dubhe-80 and Dubhe-90 JSON files.
https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/cpu-u

- Add T-HEAD C9xx JSON file.
https://github.com/riscv-software-src/opensbi/blob/master/docs/platform/thead-c9xx.md

ARM64:

- Remove UTF-8 characters from cmn.json, that were causing build
failure in some distros.

- Add core PMU events and metrics for Ampere One X.

- Rename Ampere One's BPU_FLUSH_MEM_FAULT to GPC_FLUSH_MEM_FAULT

libperf:

- Rename several perf_cpu_map constructor names to clarify what they
really do.

- Ditto for some other methods, coping with some issues in their
semantics, like perf_cpu_map__empty() ->
perf_cpu_map__has_any_cpu_or_is_empty().

- Document perf_cpu_map__nr()'s behavior

perf stat:

- Exit if parse groups fails.

- Combine the -A/--no-aggr and --no-merge options.

- Fix help message for --metric-no-threshold option.

Hardware tracing:

ARM64 CoreSight:

- Bump minimum OpenCSD version to ensure a bugfix is present.

- Add 'T' itrace option for timestamp trace

- Set start vm addr of exectable file to 0 and don't ignore first
sample on the arm-cs-trace-disasm.py 'perf script'"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.8-1-2024-01-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (179 commits)
MAINTAINERS: Add Namhyung as tools/perf/ co-maintainer
perf test: test case 'Setup struct perf_event_attr' fails on s390 on z/vm
perf db-export: Fix missing reference count get in call_path_from_sample()
perf tests: Add perf script test
libsubcmd: Fix memory leak in uniq()
perf TUI: Don't ignore job control
perf vendor events intel: Update sapphirerapids events to v1.17
perf vendor events intel: Update icelakex events to v1.23
perf vendor events intel: Update emeraldrapids events to v1.02
perf vendor events intel: Alderlake/rocketlake metric fixes
perf x86 test: Add hybrid test for conflicting legacy/sysfs event
perf x86 test: Update hybrid expectations
perf vendor events amd: Add Zen 4 memory controller events
perf stat: Fix hard coded LL miss units
perf record: Reduce memory for recording PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES event
perf env: Avoid recursively taking env->bpf_progs.lock
perf annotate: Add --insn-stat option for debugging
perf annotate: Add --type-stat option for debugging
perf annotate: Support event group display
perf annotate: Add --data-type option
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perf top: Uniform the event name for the hybrid machine

It's hard to distinguish the default cycles events among hybrid PMUs.
For example,

$ perf top
Available samples
385 cycles:P
903 cycl

perf top: Uniform the event name for the hybrid machine

It's hard to distinguish the default cycles events among hybrid PMUs.
For example,

$ perf top
Available samples
385 cycles:P
903 cycles:P

The other tool, e.g., perf record, uniforms the event name and adds the
hybrid PMU name before opening the event. So the events can be easily
distinguished. Apply the same methodology for the perf top as well.

The evlist__uniquify_name() will be invoked by both record and top.
Move it to util/evlist.c

With the patch:

$ perf top
Available samples
148 cpu_atom/cycles:P/
1K cpu_core/cycles:P/

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231214144612.1092028-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge branch 'for-6.8/amd-sfh' into for-linus

- addition of new interfaces to export User presence information and
Ambient light from amd-sfh to other drivers within the kernel (Basavaraj
Natika

Merge branch 'for-6.8/amd-sfh' into for-linus

- addition of new interfaces to export User presence information and
Ambient light from amd-sfh to other drivers within the kernel (Basavaraj
Natikar)

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

Let's kickstart the v6.8 release cycle.

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

Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent'

Avoid conflicts, base on fixes.

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

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.7 merge window.

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.7-1-2023-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"Build:

- Compile BPF programs by defaul

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.7-1-2023-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"Build:

- Compile BPF programs by default if clang (>= 12.0.1) is available
to enable more features like kernel lock contention, off-cpu
profiling, kwork, sample filtering and so on.

This can be disabled by passing BUILD_BPF_SKEL=0 to make.

- Produce better error messages for bison on debug build (make
DEBUG=1) by defining YYDEBUG symbol internally.

perf record:

- Track sideband events (like FORK/MMAP) from all CPUs even if perf
record targets a subset of CPUs only (using -C option). Otherwise
it may lose some information happened on a CPU out of the target
list.

- Fix checking raw sched_switch tracepoint argument using system BTF.
This affects off-cpu profiling which attaches a BPF program to the
raw tracepoint.

perf lock contention:

- Add --lock-cgroup option to see contention by cgroups. This should
be used with BPF only (using -b option).

$ sudo perf lock con -ab --lock-cgroup -- sleep 1
contended total wait max wait avg wait cgroup

835 14.06 ms 41.19 us 16.83 us /system.slice/led.service
25 122.38 us 13.77 us 4.89 us /
44 23.73 us 3.87 us 539 ns /user.slice/user-657345.slice/session-c4.scope
1 491 ns 491 ns 491 ns /system.slice/connectd.service

- Add -G/--cgroup-filter option to see contention only for given
cgroups.

This can be useful when you identified a cgroup in the above
command and want to investigate more on it. It also works with
other output options like -t/--threads and -l/--lock-addr.

$ sudo perf lock con -ab -G /user.slice/user-657345.slice/session-c4.scope -- sleep 1
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller

8 77.11 us 17.98 us 9.64 us spinlock futex_wake+0xc8
2 24.56 us 14.66 us 12.28 us spinlock tick_do_update_jiffies64+0x25
1 4.97 us 4.97 us 4.97 us spinlock futex_q_lock+0x2a

- Use per-cpu array for better spinlock tracking. This is to improve
performance of the BPF program and to avoid nested contention on a
lock in the BPF hash map.

- Update callstack check for PowerPC. To find a representative caller
of a lock, it needs to look up the call stacks. It ends the lookup
when it sees 0 in the call stack buffer. However, PowerPC call
stacks can have 0 values in the beginning so skip them when it
expects valid call stacks after.

perf kwork:

- Support 'sched' class (for -k option) so that it can see task
scheduling event (using sched_switch tracepoint) as well as irq and
workqueue items.

- Add perf kwork top subcommand to show more accurate cpu utilization
with sched class above. It works both with a recorded data (using
perf kwork record command) and BPF (using -b option). Unlike perf
top command, it does not support interactive mode (yet).

$ sudo perf kwork top -b -k sched
Starting trace, Hit <Ctrl+C> to stop and report
^C
Total : 160702.425 ms, 8 cpus
%Cpu(s): 36.00% id, 0.00% hi, 0.00% si
%Cpu0 [|||||||||||||||||| 61.66%]
%Cpu1 [|||||||||||||||||| 61.27%]
%Cpu2 [||||||||||||||||||| 66.40%]
%Cpu3 [|||||||||||||||||| 61.28%]
%Cpu4 [|||||||||||||||||| 61.82%]
%Cpu5 [||||||||||||||||||||||| 77.41%]
%Cpu6 [|||||||||||||||||| 61.73%]
%Cpu7 [|||||||||||||||||| 63.25%]

PID SPID %CPU RUNTIME COMMMAND
-------------------------------------------------------------
0 0 38.72 8089.463 ms [swapper/1]
0 0 38.71 8084.547 ms [swapper/3]
0 0 38.33 8007.532 ms [swapper/0]
0 0 38.26 7992.985 ms [swapper/6]
0 0 38.17 7971.865 ms [swapper/4]
0 0 36.74 7447.765 ms [swapper/7]
0 0 33.59 6486.942 ms [swapper/2]
0 0 22.58 3771.268 ms [swapper/5]
9545 9351 2.48 447.136 ms sched-messaging
9574 9351 2.09 418.583 ms sched-messaging
9724 9351 2.05 372.407 ms sched-messaging
9531 9351 2.01 368.804 ms sched-messaging
9512 9351 2.00 362.250 ms sched-messaging
9514 9351 1.95 357.767 ms sched-messaging
9538 9351 1.86 384.476 ms sched-messaging
9712 9351 1.84 386.490 ms sched-messaging
9723 9351 1.83 380.021 ms sched-messaging
9722 9351 1.82 382.738 ms sched-messaging
9517 9351 1.81 354.794 ms sched-messaging
9559 9351 1.79 344.305 ms sched-messaging
9725 9351 1.77 365.315 ms sched-messaging
<SNIP>

- Add hard/soft-irq statistics to perf kwork top. This will show the
total CPU utilization with IRQ stats like below:

$ sudo perf kwork top -b -k sched,irq,softirq
Starting trace, Hit <Ctrl+C> to stop and report
^C
Total : 12554.889 ms, 8 cpus
%Cpu(s): 96.23% id, 0.10% hi, 0.19% si <---- here
%Cpu0 [| 4.60%]
%Cpu1 [| 4.59%]
%Cpu2 [ 2.73%]
%Cpu3 [| 3.81%]
<SNIP>

perf bench:

- Add -G/--cgroups option to perf bench sched pipe. The pipe bench is
good to measure context switch overhead. With this option, it puts
the reader and writer tasks in separate cgroups to enforce context
switch between two different cgroups.

Also it needs to set CPU affinity of the tasks in a CPU to
accurately measure the impact of cgroup context switches.

$ sudo perf stat -e context-switches,cgroup-switches -- \
> taskset -c 0 perf bench sched pipe -l 100000
# Running 'sched/pipe' benchmark:
# Executed 100000 pipe operations between two processes

Total time: 0.307 [sec]

3.078180 usecs/op
324867 ops/sec

Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 0 perf bench sched pipe -l 100000':

200,026 context-switches
63 cgroup-switches

0.321637922 seconds time elapsed

You can see small number of cgroup-switches because both write and
read tasks are in the same cgroup.

$ sudo mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/{AAA,BBB}

$ sudo perf stat -e context-switches,cgroup-switches -- \
> taskset -c 0 perf bench sched pipe -l 100000 -G AAA,BBB
# Running 'sched/pipe' benchmark:
# Executed 100000 pipe operations between two processes

Total time: 0.351 [sec]

3.512990 usecs/op
284657 ops/sec

Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 0 perf bench sched pipe -l 100000 -G AAA,BBB':

200,020 context-switches
200,019 cgroup-switches

0.365034567 seconds time elapsed

Now context-switches and cgroup-switches are almost same. And you
can see the pipe operation took little more.

- Kill child processes when perf bench sched messaging exited
abnormally. Otherwise it'd leave the child doing unnecessary work.

perf test:

- Fix various shellcheck issues on the tests written in shell script.

- Skip tests when condition is not satisfied:
- object code reading test for non-text section addresses.
- CoreSight test if cs_etm// event is not available.
- lock contention test if not enough CPUs.

Event parsing:

- Make PMU alias name loading lazy to reduce the startup time in the
event parsing code for perf record, stat and others in the general
case.

- Lazily compute PMU default config. In the same sense, delay PMU
initialization until it's really needed to reduce the startup cost.

- Fix event term values that are raw events. The event specification
can have several terms including event name. But sometimes it
clashes with raw event encoding which starts with 'r' and has
hex-digits.

For example, an event named 'read' should be processed as a normal
event but it was mis-treated as a raw encoding and caused a
failure.

$ perf stat -e 'uncore_imc_free_running/event=read/' -a sleep 1
event syntax error: '..nning/event=read/'
\___ parser error
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>]

-e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events

Event metrics:

- Add "Compat" regex to match event with multiple identifiers.

- Usual updates for Intel, Power10, Arm telemetry/CMN and AmpereOne.

Misc:

- Assorted memory leak fixes and footprint reduction.

- Add "bpf_skeletons" to perf version --build-options so that users
can check whether their perf tools have BPF support easily.

- Fix unaligned access in Intel-PT packet decoder found by
undefined-behavior sanitizer.

- Avoid frequency mode for the dummy event. Surprisingly it'd impact
kernel timer tick handler performance by force iterating all PMU
events.

- Update bash shell completion for events and metrics"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.7-1-2023-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (187 commits)
perf vendor events intel: Update tsx_cycles_per_elision metrics
perf vendor events intel: Update bonnell version number to v5
perf vendor events intel: Update westmereex events to v4
perf vendor events intel: Update meteorlake events to v1.06
perf vendor events intel: Update knightslanding events to v16
perf vendor events intel: Add typo fix for ivybridge FP
perf vendor events intel: Update a spelling in haswell/haswellx
perf vendor events intel: Update emeraldrapids to v1.01
perf vendor events intel: Update alderlake/alderlake events to v1.23
perf build: Disable BPF skeletons if clang version is < 12.0.1
perf callchain: Fix spelling mistake "statisitcs" -> "statistics"
perf report: Fix spelling mistake "heirachy" -> "hierarchy"
perf python: Fix binding linkage due to rename and move of evsel__increase_rlimit()
perf tests: test_arm_coresight: Simplify source iteration
perf vendor events intel: Add tigerlake two metrics
perf vendor events intel: Add broadwellde two metrics
perf vendor events intel: Fix broadwellde tma_info_system_dram_bw_use metric
perf mem_info: Add and use map_symbol__exit and addr_map_symbol__exit
perf callchain: Minor layout changes to callchain_list
perf callchain: Make brtype_stat in callchain_list optional
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