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

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

perf bench: Add -t/--threads option to perf bench mem mmap

2026-02-26T18:54:12+00:00

So that it can measure overhead of mmap_lock and/or per-VMA lock contention. $ perf bench mem mmap -f demand -l 1000 -t 1 # Running 'mem/mmap' benchmark: # function 'demand' (Demand loaded mmap()) # Copying 1MB bytes ... 2.786858 GB/sec $ perf bench mem mmap -f demand -l 1000 -t 2 # Running 'mem/mmap' benchmark: # function 'demand' (Demand loaded mmap()) # Copying 1MB bytes ... 1.624468 GB/sec/thread ( +- 0.30% ) $ perf bench mem mmap -f demand -l 1000 -t 3 # Running 'mem/mmap' benchmark: # function 'demand' (Demand loaded mmap()) # Copying 1MB bytes ... 1.493068 GB/sec/thread ( +- 0.15% ) $ perf bench mem mmap -f demand -l 1000 -t 4 # Running 'mem/mmap' benchmark: # function 'demand' (Demand loaded mmap()) # Copying 1MB bytes ... 1.006087 GB/sec/thread ( +- 0.41% ) Reviewed-by: Ankur Arora Reviewed-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tools: Switch printf("...%s", strerror(errno)) to printf("...%m")

2026-01-14T20:22:50+00:00

strerror() has thread safety issues, strerror_r() requires stack allocated buffers. Code in perf has already been using the "%m" formatting flag that is a widely support glibc extension to print the current errno's description. Expand the usage of this formatting flag and remove usage of strerror()/strerror_r(). Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Blake Jones Cc: Chun-Tse Shao Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: Haibo Xu Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephen Brennan Cc: Thomas Falcon Cc: Yunseong Kim Cc: Zhongqiu Han Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Don't read build-ids from non-regular files

2025-11-26T18:13:38+00:00

Simplify the build ID reading code by removing the non-blocking option. Having to pass the correct option to this function was fragile and a mistake would result in a hang, see the linked fix. Furthermore, compressed files are always opened blocking anyway, ignoring the non-blocking option. We also don't expect to read build IDs from non-regular files. The only hits to this function that are non-regular are devices that won't be elf files with build IDs, for example "/dev/dri/renderD129". Now instead of opening these as non-blocking and failing to read, we skip them. Even if something like a pipe or character device did have a build ID, I don't think it would have worked because you need to call read() in a loop, check for -EAGAIN and handle timeouts to make non-blocking reads work. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20251022-james-perf-fix-dso-block-v1-1-c4faab150546@linaro.org/ Signed-off-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf auxtrace: Remove errno.h from auxtrace.h and fix transitive dependencies

2025-11-14T07:03:11+00:00

errno.h isn't used in auxtrace.h so remove it and fix build failures caused by transitive dependencies through auxtrace.h on errno.h. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

Merge tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-10-11T17:51:14+00:00

Pull x86 cleanups from Borislav Petkov: - Simplify inline asm flag output operands now that the minimum compiler version supports the =@ccCOND syntax - Remove a bunch of AS_* Kconfig symbols which detect assembler support for various instruction mnemonics now that the minimum assembler version supports them all - The usual cleanups all over the place * tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/asm: Remove code depending on __GCC_ASM_FLAG_OUTPUTS__ x86/sgx: Use ENCLS mnemonic in x86/mtrr: Remove license boilerplate text with bad FSF address x86/asm: Use RDPKRU and WRPKRU mnemonics in x86/idle: Use MONITORX and MWAITX mnemonics in x86/entry/fred: Push __KERNEL_CS directly x86/kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AS_AVX512 crypto: x86 - Remove CONFIG_AS_VPCLMULQDQ crypto: X86 - Remove CONFIG_AS_VAES crypto: x86 - Remove CONFIG_AS_GFNI x86/kconfig: Drop unused and needless config X86_64_SMP

perf bench futex: Add missing stdbool.h

2025-10-02T18:08:44+00:00

futex.h uses bool but lacks stdbool.h which causes build failures in some build systems. Add the missing #include. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: André Almeida Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Darren Hart Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Ido Schimmel Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim Cc: Jason Xing Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Jonas Gottlieb Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Maurice Lambert Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Petr Machata Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Yury Norov Cc: Yuyang Huang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250905224708.2469021-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench mem: Add mmap() workloads

2025-09-19T15:43:59+00:00

Add two mmap() workloads: one that eagerly populates a region and another that demand faults it in. The intent is to probe the memory subsytem performance incurred by mmap(). $ perf bench mem mmap -s 4gb -p 4kb -l 10 -f populate # Running 'mem/mmap' benchmark: # function 'populate' (Eagerly populated map()) # Copying 4gb bytes ... 1.811691 GB/sec $ perf bench mem mmap -s 4gb -p 2mb -l 10 -f populate # Running 'mem/mmap' benchmark: # function 'populate' (Eagerly populated mmap()) # Copying 4gb bytes ... 12.272017 GB/sec $ perf bench mem mmap -s 4gb -p 1gb -l 10 -f populate # Running 'mem/mmap' benchmark: # function 'populate' (Eagerly populated mmap()) # Copying 4gb bytes ... 17.085927 GB/sec Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Raghavendra K T Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench mem: Refactor mem_options

2025-09-19T15:43:49+00:00

Split mem benchmark options into common and memset/memcpy specific. Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Raghavendra K T Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo