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perf bpf_map: Remove unused code

2026-03-13T21:26:28+00:00

bpf_map__fprintf is unused so delete it, the header file declaring it and the now unused static helper functions. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf dump-insn: Remove dump-insn.c

2026-03-13T21:26:27+00:00

dump_insn and arch_is_uncond_branch are declared in intel-pt-insn-decoder.c which is unconditionally part of all perf builds. Don't declare weak versions of these symbols that will be unused. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf kvm stat: Remove use of the arch directory

2026-02-03T21:01:27+00:00

`perf kvm stat` supports record and report options. By using the arch directory a report for a different machine type cannot be supported. Move the kvm-stat code out of the arch directory and into util/kvm-stat-arch following the pattern of perf-regs and dwarf-regs. Avoid duplicate symbols by renaming functions to have the architecture name within them. For global variables, wrap them in an architecture specific function. Selecting the architecture to use with `perf kvm stat` is selected by EM_HOST, ie no different than before the change. Later the ELF machine can be determined from the session or a header feature (ie EM_HOST at the time of the record). The build and #define HAVE_KVM_STAT_SUPPORT is now redundant so remove across Makefiles and in the build. Opportunistically constify architectural structs and arrays. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Aditya Bodkhe Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Jones Cc: Anubhav Shelat Cc: Anup Patel Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Blake Jones Cc: Chun-Tse Shao Cc: Dapeng Mi Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quan Zhou Cc: Shimin Guo Cc: Swapnil Sapkal Cc: Thomas Falcon Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yunseong Kim Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf capstone: Support for dlopen-ing libcapstone.so

2026-02-03T14:34:02+00:00

If perf is built with LIBCAPSTONE_DLOPEN=1, support dlopen-ing libcapstone.so and then calling the necessary functions by looking them up using dlsym. The types come from capstone.h which means the libcapstone feature check needs to pass, and NO_CAPSTONE=1 hasn't been defined. This will cause the definition of HAVE_LIBCAPSTONE_SUPPORT. Earlier versions of this code tried to declare the necessary capstone.h constants and structs, but they weren't stable and caused breakages across libcapstone releases. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Bill Wendling Cc: Charlie Jenkins Cc: Collin Funk Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Justin Stitt Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf disasm: Don't include C files from the arch directory

2026-01-23T19:58:38+00:00

Move the arch instructions.c files into appropriately named files in annotate-arch in the util directory. Don't #include to compile the code, switch to building the files and fix up the #includes accordingly. Move powerpc specific disasm code out of disasm.c and into annotate-powerpc.c. Declarations and static removed as appropriate for the code to compile as separate compilation units. The e_machine and e_flags set up is moved to the disasm.c architectures array so that later patches can sort by them. Reviewed-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Aditya Bodkhe Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Bill Wendling Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Julia Lawall Cc: Justin Stitt Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sergei Trofimovich Cc: Shimin Guo Cc: Suchit Karunakaran Cc: Thomas Falcon Cc: Tianyou Li Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Zecheng Li Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf build: Remove NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND option

2026-01-20T18:43:56+00:00

Libdw unwinding support is present for every architecture that has a perf_regs.h - perf registers are needed for the initial frame to unwind. Elfutils also supports SPARC, ARC and m68k but there is no support in the Linux kernel for perf registers on these architectures. As the perf supported DWARF unwinding architectures are a subset of the elfutils ones, remove NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND as there isn't a case of elfutils lacking the support need for perf. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Aditya Bodkhe Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Chun-Tse Shao Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Haibo Xu Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Wielaard Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sergei Trofimovich Cc: Shimin Guo Cc: Stephen Brennan Cc: Thomas Falcon Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf dwarf-regs: Add util/dwarf-regs-arch for consistency with perf-regs

2026-01-20T18:43:56+00:00

perf_regs.h has cross architecture functions for operating with the differing perf register constants. dwarf-regs.h is similar but for cross architecture dwarf notions of registers. For consistency move the arch parts of dwarf-regs out of util and into its own directory. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Aditya Bodkhe Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Chun-Tse Shao Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Haibo Xu Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Wielaard Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sergei Trofimovich Cc: Shimin Guo Cc: Stephen Brennan Cc: Thomas Falcon Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf unwind-libdw: Fix a cross-arch unwinding bug

2026-01-20T16:00:39+00:00

The set_initial_registers field of Dwfl_Thread_Callbacks needs to be set according to the arch of the stack samples being analyzed, not the arch that perf itself is built for. Currently perf fails to unwind stack samples collected from archs different from that of the host perf is running on. This patch moves the arch-specific implementations of set_initial_registers from tools/perf/arch to tools/perf/utli/unwind-libdw-arch, similar to the way the perf-regs-arch folder contains arch-specific functions related to registers, and chooses the implementation based on the arch of the data being processed. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Shimin Guo Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Aditya Bodkhe Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Chun-Tse Shao Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Haibo Xu Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Wielaard Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sergei Trofimovich Cc: Stephen Brennan Cc: Thomas Falcon Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf help: Move common_cmds into builtin-help

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

There's a lot of infrastructure for generating a relatively simple array used by one function. Move the array into the function and remove the supporting build logic. At the same time opportunistically const-ify the array. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Charlie Jenkins Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf util: Remove SHA-1 code

2026-01-13T20:03:32+00:00

Now that the SHA-1 code is no longer used, remove it. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Tested-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Fangrui Song Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Pablo Galindo Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo