kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tools/perf/tests/mmap-basic.c, branch master

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 evlist: Add reference count

2026-06-30T17:17:10+00:00

This a no-op for most of the perf tool. The reference count is set to 1 at allocation, the put will see the 1, decrement it and perform the delete. The purpose for adding the reference count is for the python code. Prior to this change the python code would clone evlists, but this has issues if events are opened, etc. This change adds a reference count for the evlists and a later change will add it to evsels. The combination is needed for the python code to operate correctly (not hit asserts in the evsel clone), but the changes are broken apart for the sake of smaller patches. Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview 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 tests: Sort includes and add missed explicit dependencies

2026-05-27T11:20:31+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 evlist: Try to avoid computing evsel from sample

2026-05-20T19:39:40+00:00

As struct perf_sample now directly contains its own resolved evsel pointer, passing the evsel separately is redundant and clutters the interface. Remove the redundant evsel parameter from evlist-specific handlers and structures, ensuring the tool always directly accesses the evsel bound to the sample. This simplifies the API signatures and eliminates the risk of passing an inconsistent evsel. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Jones Cc: Anup Patel Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Blake Jones Cc: Chen Ni Cc: Chun-Tse Shao Cc: Dapeng Mi Cc: Derek Foreman Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Hrishikesh Suresh Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quan Zhou Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Swapnil Sapkal Cc: Thomas Falcon Cc: Tianyou Li Cc: Yujie Liu Cc: tanze Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf test: Don't fail if user rdpmc returns 0 when disabled

2025-11-17T07:24:00+00:00

In certain hypervisor set ups the value 0 may be returned but this is only erroneous if the user rdpmc isn't disabled. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf test: Expand user space event reading (rdpmc) tests

2025-06-20T20:14:07+00:00

Test that disabling rdpmc support via /sys/bus/event_source/cpu*/rdpmc disables reading in the mmap (libperf read support will fallback to using a system call). Test all hybrid PMUs support rdpmc. Ensure hybrid PMUs use the correct CPU to rdpmc the correct event. Previously the test would open cycles or instructions with no extended type then rdpmc it on whatever CPU. This could fail/skip due to which CPU the test was scheduled upon. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: Kan Liang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250614004528.1652860-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf thread_map: Remove uid options

2025-06-09T18:18:18+00:00

Now the target doesn't have a uid, it is handled through BPF filters, remove the uid options to thread_map creation. Tidy up the functions used in tests to avoid passing unused arguments. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250604174545.2853620-11-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf sample: Make user_regs and intr_regs optional

2025-02-13T04:06:11+00:00

The struct dump_regs contains 512 bytes of cache_regs, meaning the two values in perf_sample contribute 1088 bytes of its total 1384 bytes size. Initializing this much memory has a cost reported by Tavian Barnes as about 2.5% when running `perf script --itrace=i0`: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d841b97b3ad2ca8bcab07e4293375fb7c32dfce7.1736618095.git.tavianator@tavianator.com/ Adrian Hunter replied that the zero initialization was necessary and couldn't simply be removed. This patch aims to strike a middle ground of still zeroing the perf_sample, but removing 79% of its size by make user_regs and intr_regs optional pointers to zalloc-ed memory. To support the allocation accessors are created for user_regs and intr_regs. To support correct cleanup perf_sample__init and perf_sample__exit functions are created and added throughout the code base. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250113194345.1537821-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

libperf cpumap: Replace usage of perf_cpu_map__new(NULL) with perf_cpu_map__new_online_cpus()

2023-12-12T17:55:13+00:00

Passing NULL to perf_cpu_map__new() performs perf_cpu_map__new_online_cpus(), just directly call perf_cpu_map__new_online_cpus() to be more intention revealing. Reviewed-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andrew Jones Cc: André Almeida Cc: Athira Jajeev Cc: Atish Patra Cc: Changbin Du Cc: Darren Hart Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: K Prateek Nayak Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Paran Lee Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Sandipan Das Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Yang Li Cc: Yanteng Si Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231129060211.1890454-5-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf: tests: Adapt mmap-basic.c for riscv

2023-08-16T14:28:23+00:00

riscv now supports mmaping hardware counters to userspace so adapt the test to run on this architecture. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones Reviewed-by: Atish Patra Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers