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

perf loongarch: Fix build failure with CONFIG_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND

2026-04-14T07:36:53+00:00

Building perf for LoongArch fails when CONFIG_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND is enabled because unwind-libdw.o is still referenced in arch/loongarch/util/Build. Fixes: e62fae9d9e8 ("perf unwind-libdw: Fix a cross-arch unwinding bug") Signed-off-by: WANG Rui Acked-by: Huacai Chen Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

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

perf tools: Make more global variables static

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

`make check` will run sparse on the perf code base. A frequent warning is "warning: symbol '...' was not declared. Should it be static?" Go through and make global definitions without declarations static. In some cases it is deliberate due to dlsym accessing the symbol, this change doesn't clean up the missing declarations for perf test suites. Sometimes things can opportunistically be made const. Making somethings static exposed unused functions warnings, so restructuring of ifdefs was necessary for that. These changes reduce the size of the perf binary by 568 bytes. Committer notes: Refreshed the patch, the original one fell thru the cracks, updated the size reduction. Remove the trace-event-scripting.c changes, break the build, noticed with container builds and with sashiko: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260401215306.2152898-1-acme%40kernel.org Also make two variables static to address another sashiko review comment: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260402001740.2220481-1-acme%40kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Ankur Arora Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Yujie Liu 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

Merge tag 'perf-tools-fixes-for-v7.0-2-2026-03-23' into perf-tools-next

2026-03-25T07:06:23+00:00

To get the various fixes for v7.0. 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 pmu: Replace starts_with with strstarts

2026-03-04T01:04:49+00:00

linux/string.h provides strstarts that matches the starts_with function. For style and consistency reasons remove the starts_with functions and use strstarts. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf regs: Remove __weak attributive arch_sdt_arg_parse_op() function

2026-02-06T15:16:12+00:00

In line with the previous patch, the __weak arch_sdt_arg_parse_op() function is removed. Architectural-specific implementations in the arch/ directory are now converted into sub-functions within the util/perf-regs-arch/ directory. The perf_sdt_arg_parse_op() function will call these sub-functions based on the EM_HOST. This change enables cross-architecture calls to arch_sdt_arg_parse_op(). 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 powerpc and x86 Build files wrt removing perf_regs.o ] 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