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

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.1-2026-04-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

2026-04-18T16:24:56+00:00

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim: "perf report: - Add 'comm_nodigit' sort key to combine similar threads that only have different numbers in the comm. In the following example, the 'comm_nodigit' will have samples from all threads starting with "bpfrb/" into an entry "bpfrb/". $ perf report -s comm_nodigit,comm -H ... # # Overhead CommandNoDigit / Command # ........... ........................ # 20.30% swapper 20.30% swapper 13.37% chrome 13.37% chrome 10.07% bpfrb/ 7.47% bpfrb/0 0.70% bpfrb/1 0.47% bpfrb/3 0.46% bpfrb/2 0.25% bpfrb/4 0.23% bpfrb/5 0.20% bpfrb/6 0.14% bpfrb/10 0.07% bpfrb/7 - Support flat layout for symfs. The --symfs option is to specify the location of debugging symbol files. The default 'hierarchy' layout would search the symbol file using the same path of the original file under the symfs root. The new 'flat' layout would search only in the root directory. - Update 'simd' sort key for ARM SIMD flags to cover ASE/SME and more predicate flags. perf stat: - Add --pmu-filter option to select specific PMUs. This would be useful when you measure metrics from multiple instance of uncore PMUs with similar names. # perf stat -M cpa_p0_avg_bw Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 19,417,779,115 hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_cycles/ # 0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw 0 hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/ 0 hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/ 0 hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/ 19,417,751,103 hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_cycles/ # 0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw 0 hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/ 0 hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/ 0 hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/ 19,417,730,679 hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_cycles/ # 0.31 cpa_p0_avg_bw 75,635,749 hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/ 18,520,640 hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/ 0 hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/ 19,417,674,227 hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_cycles/ # 0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw 0 hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/ 0 hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/ 0 hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/ 19.417734480 seconds time elapsed With --pmu-filter, users can select only hisi_sicl2_cpa0 PMU. # perf stat --pmu-filter hisi_sicl2_cpa0 -M cpa_p0_avg_bw Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 6,234,093,559 cpa_cycles # 0.60 cpa_p0_avg_bw 50,548,465 cpa_p0_wr_dat 7,552,182 cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b 0 cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b 6.234139320 seconds time elapsed Data type profiling: - Quality improvements by tracking register state more precisely - Ensure array members to get the type - Handle more cases for global variables Vendor event/metric updates: - Update various Intel events and metrics - Add NVIDIA Tegra 410 Olympus events Internal changes: - Verify perf.data header for maliciously crafted files - Update perf test to cover more usages and make them robust - Move a couple of copied kernel headers not to annoy objtool build - Fix a bug in map sorting in name order - Remove some unused codes Misc: - Fix module symbol resolution with non-zero text address - Add -t/--threads option to `perf bench mem mmap` - Track duration of exit*() syscall by `perf trace -s` - Add core.addr2line-timeout and core.addr2line-disable-warn config items" * tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.1-2026-04-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (131 commits) perf loongarch: Fix build failure with CONFIG_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND perf annotate: Use jump__delete when freeing LoongArch jumps perf test: Fixes for check branch stack sampling perf test: Fix inet_pton probe failure and unroll call graph perf build: fix "argument list too long" in second location perf header: Add sanity checks to HEADER_BPF_BTF processing perf header: Sanity check HEADER_BPF_PROG_INFO perf header: Sanity check HEADER_PMU_CAPS perf header: Sanity check HEADER_HYBRID_TOPOLOGY perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CACHE perf header: Sanity check HEADER_GROUP_DESC perf header: Sanity check HEADER_PMU_MAPPINGS perf header: Sanity check HEADER_MEM_TOPOLOGY perf header: Sanity check HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY perf header: Sanity check HEADER_NRCPUS and HEADER_CPU_DOMAIN_INFO perf header: Bump up the max number of command line args allowed perf header: Validate nr_domains when reading HEADER_CPU_DOMAIN_INFO perf sample: Fix documentation typo perf arm_spe: Improve SIMD flags setting ...

prctl: cfi: change the branch landing pad prctl()s to be more descriptive

2026-04-05T00:40:58+00:00

Per Linus' comments requesting the replacement of "INDIR_BR_LP" in the indirect branch tracking prctl()s with something more readable, and suggesting the use of the speculation control prctl()s as an exemplar, reimplement the prctl()s and related constants that control per-task forward-edge control flow integrity. This primarily involves two changes. First, the prctls are restructured to resemble the style of the speculative execution workaround control prctls PR_{GET,SET}_SPECULATION_CTRL, to make them easier to extend in the future. Second, the "indir_br_lp" abbrevation is expanded to "branch_landing_pads" to be less telegraphic. The kselftest and documentation is adjusted accordingly. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/CAHk-=whhSLGZAx3N5jJpb4GLFDqH_QvS07D+6BnkPWmCEzTAgw@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: Deepak Gupta Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley

perf beauty: Move copy of fadvise.h from tools/include/ to tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/

2026-04-01T03:23:06+00:00

As it is not really used when compiling anything, just being parsed to collect number->string tables for 'perf trace'. $ git grep fadvise.h tools/ tools/perf/Makefile.perf:$(fadvise_advice_array): $(beauty_uapi_linux_dir)/fadvise.h $(fadvise_advice_tbl) tools/perf/check-headers.sh: "include/uapi/linux/fadvise.h" tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh:grep -E $regex ${header_dir}/fadvise.h | \ tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh:# tools/include/uapi/linux/fadvise.h for details. $ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAP-5=fVBNQVF8k3JUQjH1nkP69ZVp8BqP+uwygcx=xO0zC4xrg@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf beauty: Move tools/include/uapi/drm to tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi

2026-04-01T03:23:01+00:00

As it is used only to parse ioctl numbers, not to build perf and so far no other tools/ living tool uses it, so to clean up tools/include/ to be used just for building tools, to have access to things available in the kernel and not yet in the system headers, move it to the directory where just the tools/perf/trace/beauty/ scripts can use to generate tables used by perf. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf beauty: Update the arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h copy with the kernel sources

2026-03-04T14:49:24+00:00

To pick up the change in: a1fab3e69d9d0e9b ("x86/irq: Fix comment on IRQ vector layout") That just adds one comment, so no changes in perf tooling, just silences this build warning: diff -u tools/perf/trace/beauty/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf beauty: Sync UAPI linux/fs.h with kernel sources

2026-03-04T14:46:01+00:00

To pick up changes from: 0e6b7eae1fded85f ("fs: add FS_XFLAG_VERITY for fs-verity files") These are used to beautify fs syscall arguments, albeit the changes in this update are not affecting those beautifiers. This addresses these tools/perf build warnings: Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: diff -u tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/fs.h Please see tools/include/uapi/README. Cc: Andrey Albershteyn Cc: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf beauty: Sync linux/mount.h copy with the kernel sources

2026-03-04T14:41:12+00:00

To pick the changes from: 9b8a0ba68246a61d ("mount: add OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE") 0e5032237ee55301 ("statmount: accept fd as a parameter") That doesn't change anything in tools this time as nothing that is harvested by the beauty scripts got changed: $ ls -1 tools/perf/trace/beauty/*mount*sh tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsmount.sh tools/perf/trace/beauty/mount_flags.sh tools/perf/trace/beauty/move_mount_flags.sh $ This addresses this perf build warning. Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/mount.h include/uapi/linux/mount.h Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details. Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Bhavik Sachdev Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools headers: Sync uapi/linux/prctl.h with the kernel source

2026-03-04T14:14:10+00:00

To pick up the changes in these csets: 5ca243f6e3c30b97 ("prctl: add arch-agnostic prctl()s for indirect branch tracking") 28621ec2d46c6adf ("rseq: Add prctl() to enable time slice extensions") That don't introduced these new prctls: $ tools/perf/trace/beauty/prctl_option.sh > before.txt $ cp include/uapi/linux/prctl.h tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h $ tools/perf/trace/beauty/prctl_option.sh > after.txt $ diff -u before.txt after.txt --- before.txt 2026-02-27 09:07:16.435611457 -0300 +++ after.txt 2026-02-27 09:07:28.189816531 -0300 @@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ [76] = "LOCK_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS", [77] = "TIMER_CREATE_RESTORE_IDS", [78] = "FUTEX_HASH", + [79] = "RSEQ_SLICE_EXTENSION", + [80] = "GET_INDIR_BR_LP_STATUS", + [81] = "SET_INDIR_BR_LP_STATUS", + [82] = "LOCK_INDIR_BR_LP_STATUS", }; static const char *prctl_set_mm_options[] = { [1] = "START_CODE", $ That now will be used to decode the syscall option and also to compose filters, for instance: [root@five ~]# perf trace -e syscalls:sys_enter_prctl --filter option==SET_NAME 0.000 Isolated Servi/3474327 syscalls:sys_enter_prctl(option: SET_NAME, arg2: 0x7f23f13b7aee) 0.032 DOM Worker/3474327 syscalls:sys_enter_prctl(option: SET_NAME, arg2: 0x7f23deb25670) 7.920 :3474328/3474328 syscalls:sys_enter_prctl(option: SET_NAME, arg2: 0x7f23e24fbb10) 7.935 StreamT~s #374/3474328 syscalls:sys_enter_prctl(option: SET_NAME, arg2: 0x7f23e24fb970) 8.400 Isolated Servi/3474329 syscalls:sys_enter_prctl(option: SET_NAME, arg2: 0x7f23e24bab10) 8.418 StreamT~s #374/3474329 syscalls:sys_enter_prctl(option: SET_NAME, arg2: 0x7f23e24ba970) ^C[root@five ~]# This addresses these perf build warnings: Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: diff -u tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h include/uapi/linux/prctl.h Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details. Cc: Deepak Gupta Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge tag 'perf-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-02-10T20:00:46+00:00

Pull performance event updates from Ingo Molnar: "x86 PMU driver updates: - Add support for the core PMU for Intel Diamond Rapids (DMR) CPUs (Dapeng Mi) Compared to previous iterations of the Intel PMU code, there's been a lot of changes, which center around three main areas: - Introduce the OFF-MODULE RESPONSE (OMR) facility to replace the Off-Core Response (OCR) facility - New PEBS data source encoding layout - Support the new "RDPMC user disable" feature - Likewise, a large series adds uncore PMU support for Intel Diamond Rapids (DMR) CPUs (Zide Chen) This centers around these four main areas: - DMR may have two Integrated I/O and Memory Hub (IMH) dies, separate from the compute tile (CBB) dies. Each CBB and each IMH die has its own discovery domain. - Unlike prior CPUs that retrieve the global discovery table portal exclusively via PCI or MSR, DMR uses PCI for IMH PMON discovery and MSR for CBB PMON discovery. - DMR introduces several new PMON types: SCA, HAMVF, D2D_ULA, UBR, PCIE4, CRS, CPC, ITC, OTC, CMS, and PCIE6. - IIO free-running counters in DMR are MMIO-based, unlike SPR. - Also add support for Add missing PMON units for Intel Panther Lake, and support Nova Lake (NVL), which largely maps to Panther Lake. (Zide Chen) - KVM integration: Add support for mediated vPMUs (by Kan Liang and Sean Christopherson, with fixes and cleanups by Peter Zijlstra, Sandipan Das and Mingwei Zhang) - Add Intel cstate driver to support for Wildcat Lake (WCL) CPUs, which are a low-power variant of Panther Lake (Zide Chen) - Add core, cstate and MSR PMU support for the Airmont NP Intel CPU (aka MaxLinear Lightning Mountain), which maps to the existing Airmont code (Martin Schiller) Performance enhancements: - Speed up kexec shutdown by avoiding unnecessary cross CPU calls (Jan H. Schönherr) - Fix slow perf_event_task_exit() with LBR callstacks (Namhyung Kim) User-space stack unwinding support: - Various cleanups and refactorings in preparation to generalize the unwinding code for other architectures (Jens Remus) Uprobes updates: - Transition from kmap_atomic to kmap_local_page (Keke Ming) - Fix incorrect lockdep condition in filter_chain() (Breno Leitao) - Fix XOL allocation failure for 32-bit tasks (Oleg Nesterov) Misc fixes and cleanups: - s390: Remove kvm_types.h from Kbuild (Randy Dunlap) - x86/intel/uncore: Convert comma to semicolon (Chen Ni) - x86/uncore: Clean up const mismatch (Greg Kroah-Hartman) - x86/ibs: Fix typo in dc_l2tlb_miss comment (Xiang-Bin Shi)" * tag 'perf-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits) s390: remove kvm_types.h from Kbuild uprobes: Fix incorrect lockdep condition in filter_chain() x86/ibs: Fix typo in dc_l2tlb_miss comment x86/uprobes: Fix XOL allocation failure for 32-bit tasks perf/x86/intel/uncore: Convert comma to semicolon perf/x86/intel: Add support for rdpmc user disable feature perf/x86: Use macros to replace magic numbers in attr_rdpmc perf/x86/intel: Add core PMU support for Novalake perf/x86/intel: Add support for PEBS memory auxiliary info field in NVL perf/x86/intel: Add core PMU support for DMR perf/x86/intel: Add support for PEBS memory auxiliary info field in DMR perf/x86/intel: Support the 4 new OMR MSRs introduced in DMR and NVL perf/core: Fix slow perf_event_task_exit() with LBR callstacks perf/core: Speed up kexec shutdown by avoiding unnecessary cross CPU calls uprobes: use kmap_local_page() for temporary page mappings arm/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol() mips/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol() arm64/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol() riscv/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol() perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add Nova Lake support ...

tools headers: Sync linux/socket.h with kernel sources

2025-12-24T19:43:29+00:00

To pick up changes from: d73c167708739137 ("socket: Split out a getsockname helper for io_uring") 4677e78800bbde62 ("socket: Unify getsockname and getpeername implementation") bf33247a90d3e85d ("net: Add struct sockaddr_unsized for sockaddr of unknown length") This should be used to beautify socket syscall arguments and it addresses these tools/perf build warnings: Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: diff -u tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/linux/socket.h include/linux/socket.h Please see tools/include/uapi/README. Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim