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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>tools: Remove libcrypto dependency</title>
<updated>2025-06-26T17:51:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuzhuo Jing</name>
<email>yuzhuo@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-25T20:23:11+00:00</published>
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Remove all occurrence of libcrypto in the build system.

Signed-off-by: Yuzhuo Jing &lt;yuzhuo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625202311.23244-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
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Remove all occurrence of libcrypto in the build system.

Signed-off-by: Yuzhuo Jing &lt;yuzhuo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625202311.23244-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf build: detect support for libbpf's emit_strings option</title>
<updated>2025-06-20T21:48:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Blake Jones</name>
<email>blakejones@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-12T19:49:35+00:00</published>
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This creates a config option that detects libbpf's ability to display
character arrays as strings, which was just added to the BPF tree
(https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/87c9c79a02b4).

To test this change, I built perf (from later in this patch set) with:

 - static libbpf (default, using source from kernel tree)
 - dynamic libbpf (LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1 LIBBPF_INCLUDE=/usr/local/include)

For both the static and dynamic versions, I used headers with and without
the ".emit_strings" option.

I verified that of the four resulting binaries, the two with
".emit_strings" would successfully record BPF_METADATA events, and the two
without wouldn't.  All four binaries would successfully display
BPF_METADATA events, because the relevant bit of libbpf code is only used
during "perf record".

Signed-off-by: Blake Jones &lt;blakejones@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612194939.162730-2-blakejones@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
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This creates a config option that detects libbpf's ability to display
character arrays as strings, which was just added to the BPF tree
(https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/87c9c79a02b4).

To test this change, I built perf (from later in this patch set) with:

 - static libbpf (default, using source from kernel tree)
 - dynamic libbpf (LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1 LIBBPF_INCLUDE=/usr/local/include)

For both the static and dynamic versions, I used headers with and without
the ".emit_strings" option.

I verified that of the four resulting binaries, the two with
".emit_strings" would successfully record BPF_METADATA events, and the two
without wouldn't.  All four binaries would successfully display
BPF_METADATA events, because the relevant bit of libbpf code is only used
during "perf record".

Signed-off-by: Blake Jones &lt;blakejones@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612194939.162730-2-blakejones@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools/build: Remove some unused libbpf pre-1.0 feature test logic</title>
<updated>2025-06-09T18:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-03T22:13:58+00:00</published>
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Commit 76a97cf2e169 ("perf build: Remove libbpf pre-1.0 feature
tests") removed the libbpf feature test logic used by perf in favor of
using LIBBPF_MAJOR_VERSION. Remove some build targets that should have
been removed as part of that clean up.

Fixes: 76a97cf2e169 ("perf build: Remove libbpf pre-1.0 feature tests")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250603221358.2562167-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 76a97cf2e169 ("perf build: Remove libbpf pre-1.0 feature
tests") removed the libbpf feature test logic used by perf in favor of
using LIBBPF_MAJOR_VERSION. Remove some build targets that should have
been removed as part of that clean up.

Fixes: 76a97cf2e169 ("perf build: Remove libbpf pre-1.0 feature tests")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250603221358.2562167-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools/build: Use SYSTEM_BPFTOOL for system bpftool</title>
<updated>2025-03-26T14:31:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomas Glozar</name>
<email>tglozar@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-26T00:40:18+00:00</published>
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The feature test for system bpftool uses BPFTOOL as the variable to set
its path, defaulting to just "bpftool" if not set by the user.

This conflicts with selftests and a few other utilities, which expect
BPFTOOL to be set to the in-tree bpftool path by default. For example,
bpftool selftests fail to build:

$ make -C tools/testing/selftests/bpf/
make: Entering directory '/home/tglozar/dev/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf'

make: *** No rule to make target 'bpftool', needed by '/home/tglozar/dev/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/include/vmlinux.h'.  Stop.
make: Leaving directory '/home/tglozar/dev/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf'

Fix the problem by renaming the variable used for system bpftool from
BPFTOOL to SYSTEM_BPFTOOL, so that the new usage does not conflict with
the existing one of BPFTOOL.

Cc: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Luis Goncalves &lt;lgoncalv@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250326004018.248357-1-tglozar@redhat.com
Fixes: 8a635c3856dd ("tools/build: Add bpftool-skeletons feature test")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/5df6968a-2e5f-468e-b457-fc201535dd4c@linux.ibm.com/
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;qmo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;qmo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar &lt;tglozar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The feature test for system bpftool uses BPFTOOL as the variable to set
its path, defaulting to just "bpftool" if not set by the user.

This conflicts with selftests and a few other utilities, which expect
BPFTOOL to be set to the in-tree bpftool path by default. For example,
bpftool selftests fail to build:

$ make -C tools/testing/selftests/bpf/
make: Entering directory '/home/tglozar/dev/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf'

make: *** No rule to make target 'bpftool', needed by '/home/tglozar/dev/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/include/vmlinux.h'.  Stop.
make: Leaving directory '/home/tglozar/dev/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf'

Fix the problem by renaming the variable used for system bpftool from
BPFTOOL to SYSTEM_BPFTOOL, so that the new usage does not conflict with
the existing one of BPFTOOL.

Cc: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Luis Goncalves &lt;lgoncalv@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250326004018.248357-1-tglozar@redhat.com
Fixes: 8a635c3856dd ("tools/build: Add bpftool-skeletons feature test")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/5df6968a-2e5f-468e-b457-fc201535dd4c@linux.ibm.com/
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;qmo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;qmo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar &lt;tglozar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools/build: Add bpftool-skeletons feature test</title>
<updated>2025-03-04T17:35:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomas Glozar</name>
<email>tglozar@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-18T14:58:53+00:00</published>
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Add bpftool-skeletons feature test, testing the presence of a bpftool
capable of generating skeletons.

This is to be used for tools that do not require building their own
bootstrap bpftool from the kernel source tree.

Cc: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Luis Goncalves &lt;lgoncalv@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Clark Williams &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250218145859.27762-3-tglozar@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar &lt;tglozar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Add bpftool-skeletons feature test, testing the presence of a bpftool
capable of generating skeletons.

This is to be used for tools that do not require building their own
bootstrap bpftool from the kernel source tree.

Cc: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Luis Goncalves &lt;lgoncalv@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Clark Williams &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250218145859.27762-3-tglozar@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar &lt;tglozar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Remove dependency on libaudit</title>
<updated>2025-01-10T13:59:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Charlie Jenkins</name>
<email>charlie@rivosinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-09T02:36:31+00:00</published>
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All architectures now support HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE_SUPPORT, so the flag is
no longer needed. With the removal of the flag, the related
GENERIC_SYSCALL_TABLE can also be removed.

libaudit was only used as a fallback for when HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE_SUPPORT
was not defined, so libaudit is also no longer needed for any
architecture.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins &lt;charlie@rivosinc.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Günther Noack &lt;gnoack@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mickaël Salaün &lt;mic@digikod.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Leach &lt;mike.leach@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108-perf_syscalltbl-v6-16-7543b5293098@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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All architectures now support HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE_SUPPORT, so the flag is
no longer needed. With the removal of the flag, the related
GENERIC_SYSCALL_TABLE can also be removed.

libaudit was only used as a fallback for when HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE_SUPPORT
was not defined, so libaudit is also no longer needed for any
architecture.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins &lt;charlie@rivosinc.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Günther Noack &lt;gnoack@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mickaël Salaün &lt;mic@digikod.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Leach &lt;mike.leach@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108-perf_syscalltbl-v6-16-7543b5293098@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools build: Add feature test for libelf with ZSTD</title>
<updated>2024-12-18T19:24:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leo Yan</name>
<email>leo.yan@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-15T22:12:21+00:00</published>
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The macro ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD defines the compress algorithm, which was
introduced in the commit ("libelf: Document and make ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD
usable with old system elf.h") of the repository elfutils-0.188-67.
Therefore, libelf 0.189 and later versions require to link the libzstd
library.

Add a test for checking if libelf supports ZSTD algorithm.  Pass the
macro ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD as an argument to the elf_compress() function.
If the build succeeds, it means the feature is supported.

Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;qmo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;qmo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Guilherme Amadio &lt;amadio@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Hao Luo &lt;haoluo@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nick Terrell &lt;terrelln@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241215221223.293205-2-leo.yan@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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The macro ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD defines the compress algorithm, which was
introduced in the commit ("libelf: Document and make ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD
usable with old system elf.h") of the repository elfutils-0.188-67.
Therefore, libelf 0.189 and later versions require to link the libzstd
library.

Add a test for checking if libelf supports ZSTD algorithm.  Pass the
macro ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD as an argument to the elf_compress() function.
If the build succeeds, it means the feature is supported.

Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;qmo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;qmo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Guilherme Amadio &lt;amadio@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Hao Luo &lt;haoluo@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nick Terrell &lt;terrelln@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241215221223.293205-2-leo.yan@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools build feature: Don't set feature-libcap=1 if libcap-devel isn't available</title>
<updated>2024-12-12T18:34:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-11T19:51:08+00:00</published>
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libcap isn't tested in the tools/build/feature/test-all.c fast path
feature detection process, so don't set it as available if test-all
manages to build.

There are other users of this feature detection mechanism, and they
explicitely ask for libcap to be tested, so are not affected by this
patch, for instance, with this patch in place:

  $ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool/ clean
  &lt;SNIP&gt;
  make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/bpf/bpftool'
  ⬢ [acme@toolbox perf-tools-next]$ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool/
  make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/bpf/bpftool'

  Auto-detecting system features:
  ...                         clang-bpf-co-re: [ on  ]
  ...                                    llvm: [ on  ]
  ...                                  libcap: [ on  ]
  ...                                  libbfd: [ on  ]
  ...                             libelf-zstd: [ on  ]
  &lt;SNIP&gt;
    LINK    bpftool
  make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/bpf/bpftool'
  $
  $ sudo rpm -e libcap-devel
  $ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool/
  &lt;SNIP&gt;
  make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/bpf/bpftool'

  Auto-detecting system features:
  ...                         clang-bpf-co-re: [ on  ]
  ...                                    llvm: [ on  ]
  ...                                  libcap: [ OFF ]
  ...                                  libbfd: [ on  ]
  ...                             libelf-zstd: [ on  ]

  $

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;qmo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241211224509.797827-3-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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libcap isn't tested in the tools/build/feature/test-all.c fast path
feature detection process, so don't set it as available if test-all
manages to build.

There are other users of this feature detection mechanism, and they
explicitely ask for libcap to be tested, so are not affected by this
patch, for instance, with this patch in place:

  $ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool/ clean
  &lt;SNIP&gt;
  make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/bpf/bpftool'
  ⬢ [acme@toolbox perf-tools-next]$ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool/
  make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/bpf/bpftool'

  Auto-detecting system features:
  ...                         clang-bpf-co-re: [ on  ]
  ...                                    llvm: [ on  ]
  ...                                  libcap: [ on  ]
  ...                                  libbfd: [ on  ]
  ...                             libelf-zstd: [ on  ]
  &lt;SNIP&gt;
    LINK    bpftool
  make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/bpf/bpftool'
  $
  $ sudo rpm -e libcap-devel
  $ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool/
  &lt;SNIP&gt;
  make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/bpf/bpftool'

  Auto-detecting system features:
  ...                         clang-bpf-co-re: [ on  ]
  ...                                    llvm: [ on  ]
  ...                                  libcap: [ OFF ]
  ...                                  libbfd: [ on  ]
  ...                             libelf-zstd: [ on  ]

  $

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;qmo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241211224509.797827-3-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.13-2024-11-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools</title>
<updated>2024-11-26T22:54:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-26T22:54:00+00:00</published>
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Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
 "perf record:

   - Enable leader sampling for inherited task events. It was supported
     only for system-wide events but the kernel started to support such
     a setup since v6.12.

     This is to reduce the number of PMU interrupts. The samples of the
     leader event will contain counts of other events and no samples
     will be generated for the other member events.

       $ perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}:S'  ${MYPROG}

  perf report:

   - Fix --branch-history option to display more branch-related
     information like prediction, abort and cycles which is available
     on Intel machines.

       $ perf record -bg -- perf test -w brstack

       $ perf report --branch-history
       ...
       #
       # Overhead  Source:Line               Symbol          Shared Object         Predicted  Abort  Cycles  IPC   [IPC Coverage]
       # ........  ........................  ..............  ....................  .........  .....  ......  ....................
       #
            8.17%  copy_page_64.S:19         [k] copy_page   [kernel.kallsyms]     50.0%      0      5       -      -
                   |
                   ---xas_load xarray.h:171
                      |
                      |--5.68%--xas_load xarray.c:245 (cycles:1)
                      |          xas_load xarray.c:242
                      |          xas_load xarray.h:1260 (cycles:1)
                      |          xas_descend xarray.c:146
                      |          xas_load xarray.c:244 (cycles:2)
                      |          xas_load xarray.c:245
                      |          xas_descend xarray.c:218 (cycles:10)
       ...

  perf stat:

   - Add HWMON PMU support.

     The HWMON provides various system information like CPU/GPU
     temperature, fan speed and so on. Expose them as PMU events so that
     users can see the values using perf stat commands.

       $ perf stat -e temp_cpu,fan1 true

        Performance counter stats for 'true':

                    60.00 'C   temp_cpu
                        0 rpm  fan1

              0.000745382 seconds time elapsed

              0.000883000 seconds user
              0.000000000 seconds sys

   - Display metric threshold in JSON output.

     Some metrics define thresholds to classify value ranges. It used to
     be in a different color but it won't work for JSON.

     Add "metric-threshold" field to the JSON that can be one of "good",
     "less good", "nearly bad" and "bad".

       # perf stat -a -M TopdownL1 -j true
       {"counter-value" : "18693525.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "TOPDOWN.SLOTS", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "43.226002", "metric-unit" : "%  tma_backend_bound", "metric-threshold" : "bad"}
       {"metric-value" : "29.212267", "metric-unit" : "%  tma_frontend_bound", "metric-threshold" : "bad"}
       {"metric-value" : "7.138972", "metric-unit" : "%  tma_bad_speculation", "metric-threshold" : "good"}
       {"metric-value" : "20.422759", "metric-unit" : "%  tma_retiring", "metric-threshold" : "good"}
       {"counter-value" : "3817732.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "topdown-retiring", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, }
       {"counter-value" : "5472824.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "topdown-fe-bound", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, }
       {"counter-value" : "7984780.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "topdown-be-bound", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, }
       {"counter-value" : "1418181.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "topdown-bad-spec", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, }
       ...

  perf sched:

   - Add -P/--pre-migrations option for 'timehist' sub-command to track
     time a task waited on a run-queue before migrating to a different
     CPU.

       $ perf sched timehist -P
                  time    cpu  task name                       wait time  sch delay   run time  pre-mig time
                               [tid/pid]                          (msec)     (msec)     (msec)     (msec)
       --------------- ------  ------------------------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
         585940.535527 [0000]  perf[584885]                        0.000      0.000      0.000      0.000
         585940.535535 [0000]  migration/0[20]                     0.000      0.002      0.008      0.000
         585940.535559 [0001]  perf[584885]                        0.000      0.000      0.000      0.000
         585940.535563 [0001]  migration/1[25]                     0.000      0.001      0.004      0.000
         585940.535678 [0002]  perf[584885]                        0.000      0.000      0.000      0.000
         585940.535686 [0002]  migration/2[31]                     0.000      0.002      0.008      0.000
         585940.535905 [0001]  &lt;idle&gt;                              0.000      0.000      0.342      0.000
         585940.535938 [0003]  perf[584885]                        0.000      0.000      0.000      0.000
         585940.537048 [0001]  sleep[584886]                       0.000      0.019      1.142      0.001
         585940.537749 [0002]  &lt;idle&gt;                              0.000      0.000      2.062      0.000
       ...

  Build:

   - Make libunwind opt-in (LIBUNWIND=1) rather than opt-out.

     The perf tools are generally built with libelf and libdw which has
     unwinder functionality. The libunwind support predates it and no
     need to have duplicate unwinders by default.

   - Rename NO_DWARF=1 build option to NO_LIBDW=1 in order to clarify
     it's using libdw for handling DWARF information.

  Internals:

   - Do not set exclude_guest bit in the perf_event_attr by default.

     This was causing a trouble in AMD IBS PMU as it doesn't support the
     bit. The bit will be set when it's needed later by the fallback
     logic. Also update the missing feature detection logic to make sure
     not clear supported bits unnecessarily.

   - Run perf test in parallel by default and mark flaky tests
     "exclusive" to run them serially at the end. Some test numbers are
     changed but the test can complete in less than half the time.

  JSON vendor events:

   - Add AMD Zen 5 events and metrics.

   - Add i.MX91 and i.MX95 DDR metrics

   - Fix HiSilicon HIP08 Topdown metric name.

   - Support compat events on PowerPC"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.13-2024-11-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (232 commits)
  perf tests: Fix hwmon parsing with PMU name test
  perf hwmon_pmu: Ensure hwmon key union is zeroed before use
  perf tests hwmon_pmu: Remove double evlist__delete()
  perf/test: fix perf ftrace test on s390
  perf bpf-filter: Return -ENOMEM directly when pfi allocation fails
  perf test: Correct hwmon test PMU detection
  perf: Remove unused del_perf_probe_events()
  perf pmu: Move pmu_metrics_table__find and remove ARM override
  perf jevents: Add map_for_cpu()
  perf header: Pass a perf_cpu rather than a PMU to get_cpuid_str
  perf header: Avoid transitive PMU includes
  perf arm64 header: Use cpu argument in get_cpuid
  perf header: Refactor get_cpuid to take a CPU for ARM
  perf header: Move is_cpu_online to numa bench
  perf jevents: fix breakage when do perf stat on system metric
  perf test: Add missing __exit calls in tool/hwmon tests
  perf tests: Make leader sampling test work without branch event
  perf util: Remove kernel version deadcode
  perf test shell trace_exit_race: Use --no-comm to avoid cases where COMM isn't resolved
  perf test shell trace_exit_race: Show what went wrong in verbose mode
  ...
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Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
 "perf record:

   - Enable leader sampling for inherited task events. It was supported
     only for system-wide events but the kernel started to support such
     a setup since v6.12.

     This is to reduce the number of PMU interrupts. The samples of the
     leader event will contain counts of other events and no samples
     will be generated for the other member events.

       $ perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}:S'  ${MYPROG}

  perf report:

   - Fix --branch-history option to display more branch-related
     information like prediction, abort and cycles which is available
     on Intel machines.

       $ perf record -bg -- perf test -w brstack

       $ perf report --branch-history
       ...
       #
       # Overhead  Source:Line               Symbol          Shared Object         Predicted  Abort  Cycles  IPC   [IPC Coverage]
       # ........  ........................  ..............  ....................  .........  .....  ......  ....................
       #
            8.17%  copy_page_64.S:19         [k] copy_page   [kernel.kallsyms]     50.0%      0      5       -      -
                   |
                   ---xas_load xarray.h:171
                      |
                      |--5.68%--xas_load xarray.c:245 (cycles:1)
                      |          xas_load xarray.c:242
                      |          xas_load xarray.h:1260 (cycles:1)
                      |          xas_descend xarray.c:146
                      |          xas_load xarray.c:244 (cycles:2)
                      |          xas_load xarray.c:245
                      |          xas_descend xarray.c:218 (cycles:10)
       ...

  perf stat:

   - Add HWMON PMU support.

     The HWMON provides various system information like CPU/GPU
     temperature, fan speed and so on. Expose them as PMU events so that
     users can see the values using perf stat commands.

       $ perf stat -e temp_cpu,fan1 true

        Performance counter stats for 'true':

                    60.00 'C   temp_cpu
                        0 rpm  fan1

              0.000745382 seconds time elapsed

              0.000883000 seconds user
              0.000000000 seconds sys

   - Display metric threshold in JSON output.

     Some metrics define thresholds to classify value ranges. It used to
     be in a different color but it won't work for JSON.

     Add "metric-threshold" field to the JSON that can be one of "good",
     "less good", "nearly bad" and "bad".

       # perf stat -a -M TopdownL1 -j true
       {"counter-value" : "18693525.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "TOPDOWN.SLOTS", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "43.226002", "metric-unit" : "%  tma_backend_bound", "metric-threshold" : "bad"}
       {"metric-value" : "29.212267", "metric-unit" : "%  tma_frontend_bound", "metric-threshold" : "bad"}
       {"metric-value" : "7.138972", "metric-unit" : "%  tma_bad_speculation", "metric-threshold" : "good"}
       {"metric-value" : "20.422759", "metric-unit" : "%  tma_retiring", "metric-threshold" : "good"}
       {"counter-value" : "3817732.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "topdown-retiring", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, }
       {"counter-value" : "5472824.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "topdown-fe-bound", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, }
       {"counter-value" : "7984780.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "topdown-be-bound", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, }
       {"counter-value" : "1418181.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "topdown-bad-spec", "event-runtime" : 5552708, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, }
       ...

  perf sched:

   - Add -P/--pre-migrations option for 'timehist' sub-command to track
     time a task waited on a run-queue before migrating to a different
     CPU.

       $ perf sched timehist -P
                  time    cpu  task name                       wait time  sch delay   run time  pre-mig time
                               [tid/pid]                          (msec)     (msec)     (msec)     (msec)
       --------------- ------  ------------------------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
         585940.535527 [0000]  perf[584885]                        0.000      0.000      0.000      0.000
         585940.535535 [0000]  migration/0[20]                     0.000      0.002      0.008      0.000
         585940.535559 [0001]  perf[584885]                        0.000      0.000      0.000      0.000
         585940.535563 [0001]  migration/1[25]                     0.000      0.001      0.004      0.000
         585940.535678 [0002]  perf[584885]                        0.000      0.000      0.000      0.000
         585940.535686 [0002]  migration/2[31]                     0.000      0.002      0.008      0.000
         585940.535905 [0001]  &lt;idle&gt;                              0.000      0.000      0.342      0.000
         585940.535938 [0003]  perf[584885]                        0.000      0.000      0.000      0.000
         585940.537048 [0001]  sleep[584886]                       0.000      0.019      1.142      0.001
         585940.537749 [0002]  &lt;idle&gt;                              0.000      0.000      2.062      0.000
       ...

  Build:

   - Make libunwind opt-in (LIBUNWIND=1) rather than opt-out.

     The perf tools are generally built with libelf and libdw which has
     unwinder functionality. The libunwind support predates it and no
     need to have duplicate unwinders by default.

   - Rename NO_DWARF=1 build option to NO_LIBDW=1 in order to clarify
     it's using libdw for handling DWARF information.

  Internals:

   - Do not set exclude_guest bit in the perf_event_attr by default.

     This was causing a trouble in AMD IBS PMU as it doesn't support the
     bit. The bit will be set when it's needed later by the fallback
     logic. Also update the missing feature detection logic to make sure
     not clear supported bits unnecessarily.

   - Run perf test in parallel by default and mark flaky tests
     "exclusive" to run them serially at the end. Some test numbers are
     changed but the test can complete in less than half the time.

  JSON vendor events:

   - Add AMD Zen 5 events and metrics.

   - Add i.MX91 and i.MX95 DDR metrics

   - Fix HiSilicon HIP08 Topdown metric name.

   - Support compat events on PowerPC"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.13-2024-11-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (232 commits)
  perf tests: Fix hwmon parsing with PMU name test
  perf hwmon_pmu: Ensure hwmon key union is zeroed before use
  perf tests hwmon_pmu: Remove double evlist__delete()
  perf/test: fix perf ftrace test on s390
  perf bpf-filter: Return -ENOMEM directly when pfi allocation fails
  perf test: Correct hwmon test PMU detection
  perf: Remove unused del_perf_probe_events()
  perf pmu: Move pmu_metrics_table__find and remove ARM override
  perf jevents: Add map_for_cpu()
  perf header: Pass a perf_cpu rather than a PMU to get_cpuid_str
  perf header: Avoid transitive PMU includes
  perf arm64 header: Use cpu argument in get_cpuid
  perf header: Refactor get_cpuid to take a CPU for ARM
  perf header: Move is_cpu_online to numa bench
  perf jevents: fix breakage when do perf stat on system metric
  perf test: Add missing __exit calls in tool/hwmon tests
  perf tests: Make leader sampling test work without branch event
  perf util: Remove kernel version deadcode
  perf test shell trace_exit_race: Use --no-comm to avoid cases where COMM isn't resolved
  perf test shell trace_exit_race: Show what went wrong in verbose mode
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-tools-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2024-11-22T21:24:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-22T21:24:22+00:00</published>
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<id>4b01712311c6e209137c4fa3e7d7920ec509456a</id>
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Pull tracing tools updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Add ':' to getopt option 'trace-buffer-size' in timerlat_hist for
   consistency

 - Remove unused sched_getattr define

 - Rename sched_setattr() helper to syscall_sched_setattr() to avoid
   conflicts

 - Update counters to long from int to avoid overflow

 - Add libcpupower dependency detection

 - Add --deepest-idle-state to timerlat to limit deep idle sleeps

 - Other minor clean ups and documentation changes

* tag 'trace-tools-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  verification/dot2: Improve dot parser robustness
  tools/rtla: Improve exception handling in timerlat_load.py
  tools/rtla: Enhance argument parsing in timerlat_load.py
  tools/rtla: Improve code readability in timerlat_load.py
  rtla/timerlat: Do not set params-&gt;user_workload with -U
  rtla: Documentation: Mention --deepest-idle-state
  rtla/timerlat: Add --deepest-idle-state for hist
  rtla/timerlat: Add --deepest-idle-state for top
  rtla/utils: Add idle state disabling via libcpupower
  rtla: Add optional dependency on libcpupower
  tools/build: Add libcpupower dependency detection
  rtla/timerlat: Make timerlat_hist_cpu-&gt;*_count unsigned long long
  rtla/timerlat: Make timerlat_top_cpu-&gt;*_count unsigned long long
  tools/rtla: fix collision with glibc sched_attr/sched_set_attr
  tools/rtla: drop __NR_sched_getattr
  rtla: Fix consistency in getopt_long for timerlat_hist
  rv: Fix a typo
  tools/rv: Correct the grammatical errors in the comments
  tools/rv: Correct the grammatical errors in the comments
  rtla: use the definition for stdout fd when calling isatty()
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<pre>
Pull tracing tools updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Add ':' to getopt option 'trace-buffer-size' in timerlat_hist for
   consistency

 - Remove unused sched_getattr define

 - Rename sched_setattr() helper to syscall_sched_setattr() to avoid
   conflicts

 - Update counters to long from int to avoid overflow

 - Add libcpupower dependency detection

 - Add --deepest-idle-state to timerlat to limit deep idle sleeps

 - Other minor clean ups and documentation changes

* tag 'trace-tools-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  verification/dot2: Improve dot parser robustness
  tools/rtla: Improve exception handling in timerlat_load.py
  tools/rtla: Enhance argument parsing in timerlat_load.py
  tools/rtla: Improve code readability in timerlat_load.py
  rtla/timerlat: Do not set params-&gt;user_workload with -U
  rtla: Documentation: Mention --deepest-idle-state
  rtla/timerlat: Add --deepest-idle-state for hist
  rtla/timerlat: Add --deepest-idle-state for top
  rtla/utils: Add idle state disabling via libcpupower
  rtla: Add optional dependency on libcpupower
  tools/build: Add libcpupower dependency detection
  rtla/timerlat: Make timerlat_hist_cpu-&gt;*_count unsigned long long
  rtla/timerlat: Make timerlat_top_cpu-&gt;*_count unsigned long long
  tools/rtla: fix collision with glibc sched_attr/sched_set_attr
  tools/rtla: drop __NR_sched_getattr
  rtla: Fix consistency in getopt_long for timerlat_hist
  rv: Fix a typo
  tools/rv: Correct the grammatical errors in the comments
  tools/rv: Correct the grammatical errors in the comments
  rtla: use the definition for stdout fd when calling isatty()
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