linux.git/tools/perf/arch/arm, branch master

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.3-2026-08-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

2026-08-22T15:47:50+00:00

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
  ...

arch: hookup fchroot() system call

2026-07-27T15:18:00+00:00

Wire up the fchroot() system call as number 472 on (nearly) all
architectures and sync the mirrored copies of the syscall tables and
the asm-generic unistd.h under tools/.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260724-work-failfs-v2-5-485dabbae185@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable)

perf evlist: Add reference count checking

2026-06-30T17:17:11+00:00

Now the evlist is reference counted, add reference count checking so
that gets and puts are paired and easy to debug. Reference count
checking is documented here:
https://perfwiki.github.io/main/reference-count-checking/

This large patch is adding accessors to evlist functions and switching
to their use. There was some minor renaming as evlist__mmap is now an
accessor to the mmap variable, and the original evlist__mmap is
renamed to evlist__do_mmap.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alice Rogers 
Cc: Dapeng Mi 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Richter 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf arch arm: Sort includes and add missed explicit dependencies

2026-05-27T11:18:12+00:00

Fix missing #includes found while cleaning the evsel/evlist header
files. Sort the remaining header files for consistency with the rest
of the code.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alice Rogers 
Cc: Dapeng Mi 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Richter 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf unwind-libunwind: Make libunwind register reading cross platform

2026-05-15T19:18:36+00:00

Move the libunwind register to perf register mapping functions in
arch/../util/unwind-libunwind.c into a new libunwind-arch
directory. Rename the functions to
__get_perf_regnum_for_unw_regnum_. Add untested ppc32 and s390
functions. Add a get_perf_regnum_for_unw_regnum function that takes an
ELF machine as well as a register number and chooses the appropriate
architecture implementation.

Split the x86 and powerpc 32 and 64-bit implementations apart so that
a single libunwind-.h header is included.

Move the e_machine into the unwind_info struct to make it easier to
pass.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Andrew Jones 
Cc: Athira Rajeev 
Cc: Dapeng Mi 
Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli 
Cc: Howard Chu 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Li Guan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Shimin Guo 
Cc: Thomas Richter 
Cc: Tomas Glozar 
Cc: Will Deacon 
[ Map UNW_PPC32_NIP to PERF_REG_POWERPC_NIP like done for 64-bit, pointed out by a local sashiko ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use calloc() where applicable

2026-04-09T02:21:05+00:00

Instead of using zalloc(nr_entries * sizeof_entry) that is what calloc()
does.

In some places where linux/zalloc.h isn't needed, remove it, add when
needed and was getting it indirectly.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

libperf cpumap: Make index and nr types unsigned

2026-04-01T21:50:53+00:00

The index into the cpumap array and the number of entries within the
array can never be negative, so let's make them unsigned. This is
prompted by reports that gcc 13 with -O6 is giving a
alloc-size-larger-than errors. The change makes the cpumap changes and
then updates the declaration of index variables throughout perf and
libperf to be unsigned. The two things are hard to separate as
compiler warnings about mixing signed and unsigned types breaks the
build.

Reported-by: Chingbin Li 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260212025127.841090-1-liqb365@163.com/
Tested-by: Chingbin Li 
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf cs-etm: Finish removal of ETM_OPT_*

2026-03-10T12:50:44+00:00

These #defines have been removed from the kernel headers in favour of
the string based PMU format attributes. Usages were previously removed
from the recording side of cs-etm in Perf. Finish the removal by
removing usages from the decode side too.

It's a straight replacement of the old #defines with the new register
bit definitions. Except cs_etm__setup_timeless_decoding() which wasn't
looking at the saved metadata and was instead hard coding an access to
'attr.config'. This was vulnerable to the same issue of .config being
moved to .config2 etc that the original removal of ETM_OPT_* tried to
fix. So fix that too.

Signed-off-by: James Clark 
Tested-by: Leo Yan 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Mike Leach 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools headers: Update the syscall tables and unistd.h, to support the new 'rseq_slice_yield' syscall

2026-03-05T20:20:23+00:00

Picking up the changes from these csets:

  2153b2e8917b73e9 ("sparc: Add architecture support for clone3")
  99d2592023e5d0a3 ("rseq: Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield()")
  4ac286c4a8d904c8 ("s390/syscalls: Switch to generic system call table generation")

This makes 'perf trace' support it, now its possible, for instance, to
do:

  # perf trace -e rseq_slice_yield --max-stack=16

Here is an example with the 'sendmmsg' syscall:

  root@x1:~# perf trace -e sendmmsg --max-stack 16 --max-events=1
       0.000 ( 0.062 ms): dbus-broker/1012 sendmmsg(fd: 150, mmsg: 0x7ffef57cca50, vlen: 1, flags: DONTWAIT|NOSIGNAL) = 1
                                         syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                         syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                         syscall_exit_to_user_mode ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                         do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                         entry_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                         [0x117ce7] (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6 (deleted))
  root@x1:~#

To do a system wide tracing of the new 'rseq_slice_yield' syscall with a
backtrace of at most 16 entries.

This addresses these perf tools build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
    diff -u tools/scripts/syscall.tbl scripts/syscall.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/s390/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/arm/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/sh/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/sparc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/xtensa/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl

Cc: Andreas Larsson 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Ludwig Rydberg 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf regs: Remove weak attributive archxxx_reg_mask() functions

2026-02-06T15:16:09+00:00

Currently, some architecture-specific perf-regs functions, such as
arch__intr_reg_mask() and arch__user_reg_mask(), are defined with the
__weak attribute.

This approach ensures that only functions matching the architecture of
the build/run host are compiled and executed, reducing build time and
binary size.

However, this __weak attribute restricts these functions to be called
only on the same architecture, preventing cross-architecture
functionality.

For example, a perf.data file captured on x86 cannot be parsed on an ARM
platform.

To address this limitation, this patch removes the __weak attribute from
these perf-regs functions.

The architecture-specific code is moved from the arch/ directory to the
util/perf-regs-arch/ directory.

The appropriate architectural functions are then called based on the
EM_HOST.

No functional changes are intended.

Suggested-by: Ian Rogers 
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Mike Leach 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Falcon 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Xudong Hao 
Cc: Zide Chen 
[ Fixed up somme fuzz with s390 and riscv Build files wrt removing perf_regs.o ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo