kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tools/perf/arch/x86, 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 test amd ibs: avoid using executable heap

2026-07-04T16:24:02+00:00

Making [parts of] the heap executable is dangerous and is blocked by SELinux on Fedora/RHEL even for an unconfined user. Replace the malloc() + mprotect() combo with just mmap(), creating a private anonymous rwx mapping, which only requires the more commonly allowed "execmem" permission under SELinux (things like JIT or regex compilation need it as well). mmap() with MAP_ANONYMOUS will give us a zeroed mapping that begins on a page boundary, so the result is equivalent to the original code even without a memset() or the page-alignment dance. Verified that the test still passes on a machine with an AMD CPU that has the "ibs" CPU flag. Fixes: 35db59fa8ea2 ("perf test amd ibs: Add sample period unit test") Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

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 arch x86: Sort includes and add missed explicit dependencies

2026-05-27T11:20:14+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 test amd ibs: Fix incorrect kernel version check

2026-05-23T00:30:38+00:00

"AMD IBS sample period" unit test is getting skipped on kernel v7.x. Fix the kernel version >= v6.15 check. Fixes: 21fb366b2f457611 ("perf test amd: Skip amd-ibs-period test on kernel < v6.15") Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Ananth Narayan Cc: Dapeng Mi Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Manali Shukla Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Sandipan Das Cc: Santosh Shukla Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf arch x86 tests: Add test for topdown event sorting

2026-05-20T21:24:01+00:00

Add a test to capture the comment in tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evlist.c. Test that slots and topdown-retiring get appropriately sorted with respect to instructions when they're all specified together. When the PMU requires topdown event grouping (indicated by the pressence of the slots event) metric events should be after slots, which should be the group leader. Add a related test that when the slots event isn't given it is injected into the appropriate group. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Zide Chen Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Collin Funk Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Cc: German Gomez Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra 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