kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/Makefile.perf, branch v6.18.21

perf build: Remove NO_LIBCAP that controls nothing

2026-03-04T12:19:27+00:00

[ Upstream commit 169343cc8ff2bd59758760d867bd26adae866a2b ] Using libcap was removed in commit e25ebda78e230283 ("perf cap: Tidy up and improve capability testing") and improve capability testing"), however, some build documentation and a use of the NO_LIBCAP=1 were lingering. Remove these left over bits. Fixes: e25ebda78e230283 ("perf cap: Tidy up and improve capability testing") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf build: Raise minimum shellcheck version to 0.7.2

2026-03-04T12:19:22+00:00

[ Upstream commit 383f8e26e2c483e25453f8c3d0839877708ac701 ] Raise the minimum shellcheck version for perf builds to 0.7.2, so that systems with shellcheck versions below 0.7.2 will automatically skip the shell script checking, even if NO_SHELLCHECK is unset. Since commit 241f21be7d0fdf3c ("perf test perftool_testsuite: Use absolute paths"), shellcheck versions before 0.7.2 break the perf build with several SC1090 [2] warnings due to its too strict dynamic source handling [1], e.g.: In tests/shell/base_probe/test_line_semantics.sh line 20: . "$DIR_PATH/../common/init.sh" ^---------------------------^ SC1090: Can't follow non-constant source. Use a directive to specify location. Fixes: 241f21be7d0fdf3c ("perf test perftool_testsuite: Use absolute paths") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jakub Brnak Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Michael Petlan Cc: Nicolas Schier Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Philipp Hahn Cc: Veronika Molnarova Link: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues/1998 # [1] Link: https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC1090 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf tools: Fix arm64 libjvmti build by generating unistd_64.h

2025-10-06T20:16:52+00:00

Since commit 22f72088ffe6 ("tools headers: Update the syscall table with the kernel sources") the arm64 syscall header is generated at build time. Later, commit bfb713ea53c7 ("perf tools: Fix arm64 build by generating unistd_64.h") added a dependency to libperf to guarantee that this header was created before building libperf or perf itself. However, libjvmti also requires this header but does not depend on libperf, leading to build failures such as: In file included from /usr/include/sys/syscall.h:24, from /usr/include/syscall.h:1, from jvmti/jvmti_agent.c:36: tools/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h:2:10: fatal error: asm/unistd_64.h: No such file or directory 2 | #include Fix this by ensuring that libperf is built before libjvmti, so that unistd_64.h is always available. Fixes: 22f72088ffe69a37 ("tools headers: Update the syscall table with the kernel sources") Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Vincent Minet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250922053702.2688374-1-v.minet@criteo.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf build: Correct CROSS_ARCH for clang

2025-10-06T19:49:25+00:00

Clang's -dumpmachine outputs "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu", which does not match the MultiArch convention. This prevents the build system from detecting installed packages. Fix by stripping the trailing '-' from CROSS_COMPILE when setting CROSS_ARCH. Signed-off-by: Leo Yan Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251006-perf_build_android_ndk-v3-3-4305590795b2@arm.com Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Justin Stitt Cc: Bill Wendling Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: James Clark Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools build: Make libperl opt-in rather than opt-out, deprecate

2025-09-19T19:07:21+00:00

If libperl is installed then the perf tool build will build against it. There appears to be limited interest in the scripting support for perl so let's make it opt-in and deprecate it. With this patch applied you need to add LIBPERL=1 to get libperl support in perf - there is no warning if libperl is missing, but building will fail if libperl is missing and the build has LIBPERL=1. The perf version output is changed to: ``` $ perf version --build-options perf version 6.17.rc3.g8eca69269947 aio: [ on ] # HAVE_AIO_SUPPORT bpf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT bpf_skeletons: [ on ] # HAVE_BPF_SKEL debuginfod: [ on ] # HAVE_DEBUGINFOD_SUPPORT dwarf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBDW_SUPPORT dwarf_getlocations: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBDW_SUPPORT dwarf-unwind: [ on ] # HAVE_DWARF_UNWIND_SUPPORT auxtrace: [ on ] # HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT libbfd: [ OFF ] # HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT ( tip: Deprecated, license incompatibility, use BUILD_NONDISTRO=1 and install binutils-dev[el] ) libbpf-strings: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBPF_STRINGS_SUPPORT libcapstone: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBCAPSTONE_SUPPORT libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBDW_SUPPORT libelf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT libnuma: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT libopencsd: [ OFF ] # HAVE_CSTRACE_SUPPORT libperl: [ OFF ] # HAVE_LIBPERL_SUPPORT ( tip: Deprecated, use LIBPERL=1 and install libperl-dev to build with it ) libpfm4: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBPFM libpython: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBPYTHON_SUPPORT libslang: [ on ] # HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT libtraceevent: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT libunwind: [ OFF ] # HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT ( tip: Deprecated, use LIBUNWIND=1 and install libunwind-dev[el] to build with it ) lzma: [ on ] # HAVE_LZMA_SUPPORT numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT zlib: [ on ] # HAVE_ZLIB_SUPPORT zstd: [ on ] # HAVE_ZSTD_SUPPORT ``` i.e. there is a tip saying about deprecation and how to get support back. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Charlie Jenkins Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Michael Petlan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quentin Monnet Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Tomas Glozar Cc: Yuzhuo Jing Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aMrk03gigBlGcYLK@x1/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAP-5=fVX+bLBRJCiziDi_hBySgv2NFtDoghtpheSSxVAvvETGw@mail.gmail.com [ Keep the pre-existing perl-ExtUtils-Embed hint for Fedora/RHEL systems ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf build: Always disable stack protection for BPF skeleton objects

2025-07-21T03:49:35+00:00

When the clang toolchain has stack protection enabled, the bpf skeletons build fails with: error: A call to built-in function '__stack_chk_fail' is not supported. Since stack-protector makes no sense for the BPF bits, just unconditionally disable it. See also similar case at 878625e1c7a10dfbb1fdaaaae2c4d2a58fbce627 Signed-off-by: Federico Pellegrin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250718041224.12389-1-fede@evolware.org [ rearrange long lines ] Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf build: Specify shellcheck should use bash

2025-06-30T16:43:06+00:00

When someone has a global shellcheckrc file, for example at ~/.config/shellcheckrc, with the directive 'shell=sh', building perf will fail with many shellcheck errors like: In tests/shell/base_probe/test_adding_kernel.sh line 294: (( TEST_RESULT += $? )) ^---------------------^ SC3006 (warning): In POSIX sh, standalone ((..)) is undefined. For more information: https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC3006 -- In POSIX sh, standalone ((..)) is... make[5]: *** [tests/Build:91: tests/shell/base_probe/test_adding_kernel.sh.shellcheck_log] Error 1 Passing the '-s bash' option ensures that it runs correctly regardless of a developers global configuration. This patch adds '-s bash' and other options to the SHELLCHECK variable in Makefile.perf and makes use of the variable consistently. Signed-off-by: Collin Funk Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/63491dbc8439edf2e949d80e264b9d22332fea61.1751082075.git.collin.funk1@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

tools: Remove libcrypto dependency

2025-06-26T17:51:41+00:00

Remove all occurrence of libcrypto in the build system. Signed-off-by: Yuzhuo Jing Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625202311.23244-5-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf test: add test for BPF metadata collection

2025-06-20T21:55:24+00:00

This is an end-to-end test for the PERF_RECORD_BPF_METADATA support. It adds a new "bpf_metadata_perf_version" variable to perf's BPF programs, so that when they are loaded, there will be at least one BPF program with some metadata to parse. The test invokes "perf record" in a way that loads one of those BPF programs, and then sifts through the output to find its BPF metadata. Signed-off-by: Blake Jones Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612194939.162730-6-blakejones@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tests: Fix 'perf report' tests installation

2025-05-09T17:10:08+00:00

There was a copy-paste mistake in the installation commands. Also, we need to install stderr-whitelist.txt file, which contains allowed messages that are printed on stderr and should not cause test fail. Fixes: 097fe67df1aa9cc7 ("perf testsuite: Install perf-report tests in the 'make install-tests -C tools/perf' target") Signed-off-by: Michael Petlan Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250113182605.130719-6-vmolnaro@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Veronika Molnarova Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo