Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"perf c2c:
- Add 'function view' in perf c2c report TUI (switched by pressing
'TAB' in the cacheline view) to organize samples around functions
rather than cachelines in 3-level hierarchy:
Level 1: Read-side function (sorted by estimated Cycles %)
Level 2: Contending writer functions (sorted by Store count)
Level 3: Shared cacheline addresses
Users can navigate the entries and fold/unfold using 'e' key. An
example output would look like below:
Shared Data Functions Table (19 entries, sorted on Cycles %)
Cycles Store
% count Function / Contending function / Cacheline
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 35.67% 876 + [k] cpupri_set
+ 24.31% 424 + [k] pull_rt_task
- 16.53% 555 - [k] dequeue_pushable_task
145 - [k] pull_rt_task
145 0xff2d0082809da080
139 - [k] enqueue_pushable_task
70 0xff2d00a2071f9640
69 0xff2d0082809da000
python module support:
- Extend "perf" python module so that it can be fully functional. The
goal is to run scripts directly, not by 'perf script' command. This
would give better performance as well as more control to build
standalone programs with UI.
- Add LiveSession helper (perf_live.py) to enable live event
collection directly from Python using perf.evlist and
perf.parse_events.
perf stat:
- Add --hide-zero-events option to suppress zero-count events
- Reject conflicting --field-separator and --json-output options
- Fix duplicate event output with --for-each-cgroup
perf sched latency:
- Add -H/--histogram and --hist-mode (log|linear) options to show
scheduler wait latency histograms
- Add --time option to filter analysis by time span in 'perf sched
latency'
ARM CoreSight:
- Synthesize callchains for instruction samples from CoreSight trace
using thread stack ('--itrace=g...')
- Support call indentation ('perf script -F +callindent') to display
call depth hierarchy on branch samples
- Decode ETE (Embedded Trace Extension) exception packets
Build system:
- Add 'make install-build-deps' target to install required packages
- Parallelize JSON and metric pre-computation in jevents.py for
faster builds
Vendor event/metric updates:
- Add Intel Nova Lake events and update tables for existing models
- Update AMD Zen 5 and Zen 6 core events
- Update Arm64 Tegra410 metrics and PowerPC hcalls
Internal changes and fixes:
- Harden trace-event and synthetic event parsing against corrupted
data
- Fix unwinding of multi-threaded processes in libdw unwinder
- Fix memory leaks in various commands and python bindings
- Speed up 'perf test' shell tests"
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.3-2026-08-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (232 commits)
perf vendor events arm64: Fix Tegra410 Olympus event 0x0197
perf vendor events arm64: fix swapped MetricGroup for Tegra410 L1 prefetcher metrics
perf evlist: Warn when 'sleep' workload is used without system-wide (-a) option
perf c2c: document function view in perf-c2c man page
perf c2c: add function view browser UI and cacheline detail
perf c2c: build and finalize the function view hierarchy
perf c2c: add function view hierarchy entry creation
perf c2c: add function view stats merge and memory management
perf c2c: add HPP list parsing for function view columns
perf c2c: add column rendering for function view
perf c2c: add function view model skeleton
perf c2c: extract shared data structures into util/c2c.h
perf test sample-parsing: Validate PERF_FORMAT_GROUP values without LOST
perf dso: Replace assert with runtime check in dso__read_symbol()
perf dso: Guard against cache underflow on short reads in dso_cache__memcpy()
perf dso: Use stored fd error instead of stale errno in file_read() and file_size()
perf dso: Guard close() against invalid fd in dso__decompress_kmodule_path()
perf dso: Guard against errno==0 when dso__get_filename() returns NULL
perf build: install-build-deps: add RHEL family devel package mapping
perf build: Remove leftover feature tests for removed cxx and clang support
...
Pull Landlock update from Mickaël Salaün: "This improves observability with Landlock tracepoints support, which required some refactoring for dedicated domain types and common helpers shared with audit code. A LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_NO_NEW_PRIVS flag is also added to improve process-wide domain enforcement consistency. Whiteout files are now correctly handled and tested, and a few other fixes" * tag 'landlock-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mic/linux: (34 commits) landlock: Document tracepoints selftests/landlock: Add landlock_enforce_domain trace tests selftests/landlock: Add scope and ptrace tracepoint tests selftests/landlock: Add network tracepoint tests selftests/landlock: Add filesystem tracepoint tests selftests/landlock: Add trace event test infrastructure and tests landlock: Add tracepoints for ptrace and scope denials landlock: Add landlock_deny_access_fs and landlock_deny_access_net landlock: Add tracepoints for rule checking landlock: Add landlock_enforce_domain tracepoint landlock: Add create_domain and free_domain tracepoints landlock: Add landlock_add_rule_fs and landlock_add_rule_net tracepoints landlock: Add create_ruleset and free_ruleset tracepoints landlock: Consolidate access-right and scope names in a shared header landlock: Decouple the per-denial logging decision from CONFIG_AUDIT landlock: Split denial logging from audit into common framework landlock: Split struct landlock_domain from struct landlock_ruleset landlock: Move domain query functions to domain.c landlock: Prepare ruleset and domain type split samples/landlock: Add LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_NO_NEW_PRIVS to sampler ...
Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
"BTF typecasting and variable fetch enhancements:
- Typecast support across probe events: Extended BTF typecasting
syntax (e.g., (STRUCT)PARAM->MEMBER) to kprobes, uprobes, and
fprobes on function entry and return
- Nested typecasts: Added support for chaining and nesting typecasts
up to 3 levels, including casting registers and stack variables
- Field specifier option: Added (STRUCT,FIELD) syntax to emulate
container_of(), allowing retrieval of parent structures from member
pointers
- $current variable support: Introduced $current special variable to
access the running task_struct via BTF dereferencing
- Per-CPU variable access: Added this_cpu_read() and this_cpu_ptr()
fetcharg methods to trace CPU-local data safely
- Fetcharg bytecode dumper: Added CONFIG_PROBE_EVENTS_DUMP_FETCHARG
to dump the compiled fetcharg bytecode instructions as comments in
dynamic_events
- Extended symbol name handling: Removed the MAX_COMMON_HEAD_LEN
limit and extended MAX_ARGSTR_LEN to 256 bytes, enabling probing of
long symbols, mangled Rust symbols and complex BTF expressions
- eprobe variable syntax: Allowed eprobes to reference event fields
directly without requiring a '$' prefix
- Cleanup unused parameters, redundant codes, duplicate macros and
pointer arithmetic
- Use a ternary operator for simplifying fetch_type_from_btf_type()
Expanded boot time dynamic probe support:
- Add boot-time tracing configuration support for event probes
(eprobes), function probes (fprobes), and tracepoint probes
(tprobes)
- Allow comment lines ('#') in dynamic_events file
Optimization, robustness, and cleanups:
- Simplify fprobe_remove_ips() by reusing graph and ftrace helpers
- Remove __packed attribute from struct __fprobe_header to avoid
unaligned memory access penalties on RISC architectures
- Remove redundant memset() calls in perf event probe handlers
- Replace legacy __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in header files
Selftests & refactoring:
- Refactor parse_probe_arg() and parse_probe_vars(), and eliminate
recursion in probe argument parsing to protect kernel stack depth
- Add selftests for BTF typecasts and module probing without module
prefixes
- Force LC_ALL=C in ftracetest to prevent test failures on localized
systems
- Refactor btf_type_skip_modifiers() to remove ignored id parameter
- Sort ERRORS list in trace_probe.h alphabetically
- Fix typo in fprobe docs, and trace_fprobe function name
- Rename FETCH_OP_DATA to FETCH_OP_IMMSTR
- Make file offset error message probe-agnostic"
* tag 'probes-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (37 commits)
fprobe: Simplify fprobe_remove_ips() by reusing existing helpers
tracing/boot: Add support for eprobe, fprobe, and tprobe events
selftests/ftrace: Force C locale in ftracetest
tracing/probes: Treating longer symbol name on event comparation
docs: trace: fprobe: fix 'thos' spelling
tracing/probes: Fix extra whitespace in trace_probe_kernel.h
tracing/kprobe: Remove redundant memset in kprobe_perf_func()
tracing/fprobe: Remove redundant memset in fentry_perf_func()
tracing/fprobe: Remove redundant snprintf in trace_fprobe_match_command_head()
tracing/probes: Simplify BTF_KIND_PTR case in fetch_type_from_btf_type()
tracing/probes: Cleanup pointer arithmetic in store_trace_entry_data()
tracing/probes: Remove unused parameter from parse_probe_var_retval()
tracing/probes: Remove redundant bounds check in trace_probe_compare_arg_type()
tracing/probes: Remove redundant boolean conversion in trace_probe_has_single_file()
tracing/probes: Remove duplicate MAX_ARRAY_LEN macro definition
selftests/ftrace: Add test case for a symbol in a module without module name
tracing/probes: Eliminate recursion in parse_probe_arg()
tracing/probes: Extend max length of argument string
tracing/probes: Sort ERRORS list in trace_probe.h alphabetically
tracing/probes: Refactor parse_probe_arg()
...
Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt: - Deprecrate ftrace_enabled in disabling ftrace The file /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled was created when ftrace was first introduced back in 2008. It was to be a "kill switch" if something was to go wrong. It was also used as a way to turn off function tracing for the latency tracers that would have it on by default. But in 2013 (Linux 3.10) the option "function-trace" was introduced to disable function tracing for the latency tracers as the "ftrace_enabled" file was considered too big of a hammer and caused too many side effects. When live kernel patching came along, disabling ftrace via the ftrace_enabled file would put the system into an unstable state if a live kernel patch was installed. This created the need to mark some function hooks as "PERMANENT". Now there's a need for BPF usage marked as PERMANENT for the same reasons. The file "ftrace_enabled" usage is no longer viable. It doesn't do what it says it does and there is no reason to use it. Make writing '0' to it a nop and print a message saying its usage is deprecated. The return value of writing '0' is -EOPNOTSUPP so that user space will error on that write (hopefully to inform any developer that it no longer works). Eventually the file should be removed completely, but for now just making it not do anything is the path forward to that. - Update the livepatch tests to handle ftrace_enabled being disabled Because in the past, livepatch was broken by ftrace_enabled being turned off, there's a test case that checks to make sure it still doesn't break. But having the write of '0' return an error caused that test to break. Updated the test to handle the new change. * tag 'ftrace-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: selftests/livepatch: update test-ftrace.sh for deprecated ftrace_enabled ftrace: deprecate disabling via ftrace_enabled sysctl
Until now, Landlock observability documentation covered only audit records. The tracepoints added by the previous commits introduce a second channel with different semantics (firing regardless of audit configuration and domain log flags, exposing the full ruleset and domain state to eBPF via BTF), which kernel developers, administrators, and userspace tool authors need to discover and compare against audit. Add a dedicated "Landlock Trace Events" reference covering the event categories, enabling events via tracefs, ruleset versioning, eBPF access through BPF_RAW_TRACEPOINT, and the same_exec and logged denial fields (logged being the kernel's audit-logging decision, so a stateless ftrace filter can select the denials audit would record with logged==1). Cross-reference it from the administrator, kernel-internals, and userspace API documents, contrasting tracepoints with audit: when each channel is preferred, what each guarantees, and how NOAUDIT hooks and audit rate limiting affect them. Also document the relational other-party domain fields the scope and ptrace denial tracepoints expose (tracee_domain, target_domain, peer_domain; 0 when the other party is unsandboxed), so a consumer can resolve them against the lifecycle events and reproduce the two-domain verdict. Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com> Cc: Tingmao Wang <m@maowtm.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260811094338.288094-20-mic@digikod.net [mic: Update dates] Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Writing 0 to kernel.ftrace_enabled has not reliably disabled ftrace for years (FTRACE_OPS_FL_PERMANENT users already block it, and more callers rely on ftrace always being on). Refuse the write instead of leaving it in an inconsistent "disables some, not all" state: return -EOPNOTSUPP and log a message. Reads and enabling (writing 1) are unaffected. Update the docs to note the deprecation up front. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260806153000.4184871-2-andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Boot-time tracing currently supports kprobe-events and synthetic-events under per-event configuration options. Extend boot-time tracing to support newly added dynamic probe types: - event probes (eprobe) under the "eprobes" event group - function probes (fprobe) under the "fprobes" event group - tracepoint probes (tprobe) under the "tracepoints" or "tprobes" event group To support this cleanly, update dyn_event_create() in trace_dynevent.c so that passing NULL as the type parameter delegates to create_dyn_event(), allowing generic creation of any registered dynamic event type from a raw command string. Update Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst accordingly to describe the new per-event bootconfig options. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178613905149.259829.18185480460810689421.stgit@devnote2/ Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.6-flash Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Changes in v3: - Check return values of strscpy() and snprintf() in trace_boot_add_probe_event() to prevent silent buffer truncation when constructing probe event strings. Changes in v2: - Fix raw command detection logic for eprobes, fprobes, and tprobes by requiring ':' or isspace() after type prefix. - Consolidate duplicate loop logic into trace_boot_add_probe_event() helper function.
epoll_wait() is a valid sleeping reason for real-time tasks because it uses PI-aware locking, but the rtapp sleep monitor documentation only discusses clock_nanosleep() and futexes. Document it. ABORT_SLEEP represents a task restoring TASK_RUNNING before entering the scheduler. Since the task does not actually block, it becomes runnable again without a wakeup sequence unsafe for real-time. Document this behavior. Signed-off-by: Chao Liu <chao.liu@processmission.com> Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260729081102.73138-1-chao.liu@processmission.com Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
TLP Headers traced by HiSilicon PCIe tune and trace device (PTT) in
4DW format are shown in the document as below:
bits [31:30] [ 29:25 ][24][23][22][21][ 20:11 ][ 10:0 ]
|-----|---------|---|---|---|---|-------------|-------------|
DW0 [ Fmt ][ Type ][T9][T8][TH][SO][ Length ][ Time ]
DW1 [ Header DW1 ]
DW2 [ Header DW2 ]
DW3 [ Header DW3 ]
Problem:
The DW0 bit field layout of the hisi_ptt_4dw union does not match the
actual bit ordering in little-endian memory, causing incorrect field
decoding.
Test on Kunpeng 930 SOC, generating data flow with `iperf` commands:
- server side:
iperf -s
- client side:
iperf -c $ip_addr -t 30
Trace the TLP headers with hisi_ptt on server side at the same time:
perf record -e hisi_ptt12_0/type=4,filter=0x05101,direction=2,format=0/ \
--max-size 50M -o perf.data &
The trace aims to capture completion TLPs, learn more in the document:
https://docs.kernel.org/trace/hisi-ptt.html
Decode perf.data with hisi_ptt decoder:
perf report -D
The hisi_ptt decoder produces the following result:
[...perf headers and other information]
. ... HISI PTT data: size 8388608 bytes
. 00000000: 68 87 20 94 Format 3 Type 1a T9 0 T8 1 TH 1 SO 1 Length 10 Time 4a1
. 00000004: 40 00 00 00 Header DW1
. 00000008: 40 00 01 51 Header DW2
. 0000000c: 00 00 00 00 Header DW3
[...other hisi_ptt TLP headers]
According to PCIe r5.0 sec 2.2.1, the Fmt & Type of Cpl/CplD is supposed
to be 8b'00001010' / 8b'01001010'
However, the Format & Type decoder analyzing result is 8b'01111010'.
It does not match field encodings of any TLP.
Correct decoder result should be:
[...perf headers and other information]
. ... HISI PTT data: size 8388608 bytes
. 00000000: 94 20 87 68 Format 2 Type a T9 0 T8 0 TH 0 SO 1 Length 10 Time 768
. 00000004: 00 00 00 40 Header DW1
. 00000008: 51 01 00 40 Header DW2
. 0000000c: 00 00 00 00 Header DW3
[...other hisi_ptt TLP headers]
To solve the problem:
1. Drop the union and C bitfield struct, store the raw DW value in
a plain uint32_t, and extract the fields with FIELD_GET() against
GENMASK/BIT masks declared in the header so they can be reused by
other translation units. The masks are portable across endianness and
compilers.
2. Print all DW hex values in big-endian byte order for readability,
matching the bit field layout shown in the 4DW format diagram.
3. Read the DW value with get_unaligned_le32() instead of an unaligned
pointer cast, avoiding both strict-aliasing violations and
alignment hazards on hosts that do not support unaligned access.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5e91e57e6809 ("perf auxtrace arm64: Add support for parsing HiSilicon PCIe Trace packet")
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sizhe Liu <liusizhe5@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Fix spelling error reported by codespell: thos -> those. No functional change. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260726065633.20897-1-shaikhkamal2012@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: shaikh.kamal <shaikhkamal2012@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>