kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/util/Build, branch v7.2-rc1

perf inject/aslr: Add ASLR tool infrastructure and MMAP tracking

2026-06-15T12:02:17+00:00

If perf.data files are taken from one machine to another they may leak virtual addresses and so weaken ASLR on the machine they are coming from. Add an aslr option for perf inject that remaps all virtual addresses, or drops data/events, so that the virtual address information isn't leaked. This patch introduces the core ASLR remapping tool infrastructure and implements remapping/tracking for metadata events (MMAP, MMAP2, COMM, FORK, EXIT, KSYMBOL, TEXT_POKE). Sample events are delegated without remapping for now. Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.1-pro Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Co-developed-by: Gabriel Marin Signed-off-by: Gabriel Marin Tested-by: James Clark Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf data ctf: replace libbabeltrace with babeltrace2-ctf-writer

2026-06-04T20:34:52+00:00

The 1.x branch of Babeltrace has been superseded by 2.x in 2020 and has been unmaintained since 2022, efforts have started to remove it from popular distributions. Babeltrace 2.x offers a very similar 'ctf-writer' library that can be used with minimal changes for the '--to-ctf' feature and has been packaged since Debian 11 and Fedora 32. This patch replaces the 'libbabeltrace' build feature with 'babeltrace2-ctf-writer' using pkgconfig detection, adjusts the naming of the public headers and applies minor API cleanups. There is no changes to the output ctf traces, the ctf-writer API still implements version 1.8 of the CTF specification that can be read by either Babeltrace 1 / 2 or any CTF compliant reader. Also remove some ifdefs in the cli option parsing to allow printing the helpful error message with '--to-ctf' when built without babeltrace2. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Derek Foreman Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf build: Move BPF skeleton generation out of Makefile.perf

2026-05-20T20:46:45+00:00

Currently, the top-level Makefile.perf defines a massive global bpf-skel umbrella target that pre-compiles all 12+ BPF skeletons (%.skel.h) upfront before launching sub-makes. This forces unrelated sub-makes to serialize behind bpftool and clang BPF target evaluations, causing parallel build bottlenecks. Furthermore, bench_uprobe.bpf.c lived inside util/bpf_skel/, breaking conceptual directory encapsulation since it is consumed purely by bench/uprobe.c. Refactor the BPF skeletons to better achieve directory isolation: 1. Move tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/bench_uprobe.bpf.c directly into tools/perf/bench/bpf_skel/. 2. Extract the skeleton generation infrastructure out of Makefile.perf into a shared inclusion file tools/perf/bpf_skel.mak. 3. Include bpf_skel.mak locally inside tools/perf/util/Build and tools/perf/bench/Build and bind precise local prerequisites. 4. Safely synchronize the shared bpftool bootstrap and vmlinux.h targets via the conditional prepare: umbrella to avoid parallel sub-make races, while evaluating the actual skeletons completely locally on demand. A later patch will move these targets into bpf_skel.mak. 5. Export CLANG from the global Makefile to ensure accurate tool propagation. 6. Clean up Makefile.perf by stripping the global bpf-skel umbrella target and its SKELETONS list. While removing code from Makefile.perf generally helps build performance, the impact here is minimal. The main motivation for the change is to better encapsulate things in the build and simplify Makefile.perf that has around 50 lines removed. Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: James Clark Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexandre Chartre Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Ankur Arora Cc: Collin Funk Cc: Costa Shulyupin Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Dapeng Mi Cc: David Sterba Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Cc: Eduard Zingerman Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Markus Mayer Cc: Martin KaFai Lau Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nick Terrell Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quentin Monnet Cc: Ricky Ringler Cc: Song Liu Cc: Swapnil Sapkal Cc: Thomas Falcon Cc: Tomas Glozar Cc: Yonghong Song Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace beauty: Make beauty generated C code standalone .o files

2026-05-20T20:46:45+00:00

Previously, builtin-trace.c directly included 15 embedded C files (e.g. trace/beauty/mmap.c and fsconfig_arrays.c), which in turn depend on dozens of generated beauty script arrays. To satisfy these embedded inclusions, the global Makefile.perf would define all the generator variables/rules and include them in the prepare umbrella target, choking parallel build startup. Furthermore, tools/perf/util/syscalltbl.c included its own generated mapper, and util/env.c conditionally included arch_errno_names.c inline, splitting consumers across directories and preventing clean Make encapsulation. Refactor the framework to achieve better encapsulation: 1. Move util/syscalltbl.[ch] into trace/beauty/ to co-locate with all generated code consumers. 2. Create fsconfig.c and flatten embedded beauty .c files to compile as independent standalone objects via trace/beauty/Build, exporting their formatting functions via beauty.h and env.h. Switch arch_errno_names.o and syscalltbl.o assignments directly to perf-util-y and add an unconditional top-level recursive kbuild hook (perf-util-y += trace/beauty/) to compile them into libperf-util.a, resolving remote linkage for util/env.c, util/bpf-trace-summary.c, and standalone python extensions. 3. Bridge private opaque references (struct trace) securely via accessors trace__show_zeros() and trace__host(), avoiding header entanglements. 4. Consolidate all generator variables, script paths, and array generation rules entirely out of Makefile.perf and place them directly inside the exact local Build files where their output objects are compiled (trace/beauty/Build and trace/beauty/tracepoints/Build), binding prerequisites locally. Use directly inside generator recipes to guarantee dynamic directory creation before script redirection, and append across all rules to print clean, standardized GEN ... file.c output during compilation. 5. Clean up clean target to recursively remove the generated directory instead of relying on dozens of individual variables. This unchokes the "prepare" target parallel barrier, allows make to evaluate generation scripts purely locally where consumed, and flattens the tracepoint formatting architecture. Testing a parallel build (make -j28 all from scratch) shows improvements: Before: real 0m28.689s user 2m38.490s sys 0m30.148s After: real 0m27.642s user 2m32.356s sys 0m26.683s So reclaiming ~9.6 seconds of raw CPU time and over 1 full second off overall real-world build latency, by overlapping sub-make startup and avoiding top-level double-parsing overhead. Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: James Clark Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexandre Chartre Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Ankur Arora Cc: Collin Funk Cc: Costa Shulyupin Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Dapeng Mi Cc: David Sterba Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Cc: Eduard Zingerman Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Markus Mayer Cc: Martin KaFai Lau Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nick Terrell Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quentin Monnet Cc: Ricky Ringler Cc: Song Liu Cc: Swapnil Sapkal Cc: Thomas Falcon Cc: Tomas Glozar Cc: Yonghong Song Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf unwind-libunwind: Remove libunwind-local

2026-05-15T19:19:50+00:00

Local unwinding only works on the machine libunwind is built for, rather than cross platform, the APIs for remote and local unwinding are similar but types like unw_word_t depend on the included header. Place the architecture specific code into the appropriate libunwind-.c file. Put generic code in unwind-libunwind.c and use libunwind-arch to choose the correct implementation based on the thread's e_machine. Structuring the code this way avoids including the unwind-libunwind-local.c for each architecture of remote unwinding. Data is moved into the struct unwind_info to simplify the architecture and generic code, trying to keep as much code as possible generic. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andrew Jones Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Dapeng Mi Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Cc: Florian Fainelli Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Li Guan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Shimin Guo Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Tomas Glozar Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf unwind-libunwind: Make libunwind register reading cross platform

2026-05-15T19:18:36+00:00

Move the libunwind register to perf register mapping functions in arch/../util/unwind-libunwind.c into a new libunwind-arch directory. Rename the functions to __get_perf_regnum_for_unw_regnum_. Add untested ppc32 and s390 functions. Add a get_perf_regnum_for_unw_regnum function that takes an ELF machine as well as a register number and chooses the appropriate architecture implementation. Split the x86 and powerpc 32 and 64-bit implementations apart so that a single libunwind-.h header is included. Move the e_machine into the unwind_info struct to make it easier to pass. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andrew Jones Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Dapeng Mi Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Cc: Florian Fainelli Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Li Guan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Shimin Guo Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Tomas Glozar Cc: Will Deacon [ Map UNW_PPC32_NIP to PERF_REG_POWERPC_NIP like done for 64-bit, pointed out by a local sashiko ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf unwind: Refactor get_entries to allow dynamic libdw/libunwind selection

2026-05-15T11:25:02+00:00

Currently, both libdw and libunwind define 'unwind__get_entries'. This causes a duplicate symbol build failure when both are compiled into perf. This commit refactors the DWARF unwind post-processing to be configurable at runtime via the .perfconfig file option 'unwind.style', or using the argument '--unwind-style' in the commands 'perf report', 'perf script' and 'perf inject', in a similar manner to the addr2line or the disassembler style. The file 'tools/perf/util/unwind.c' adds the top-level dispatch function 'unwind__get_entries'. The backend implementations are renamed to 'libdw__get_entries' and 'libunwind__get_entries'. Both are attempted as fallbacks if not configured, or if the primary backend fails. Fixes: 2e9191573a69ff96 ("perf build: Remove NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND option") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andrew Jones Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Dapeng Mi Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Cc: Florian Fainelli Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Leo Yan Cc: libunwind-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Li Guan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Shimin Guo Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Tomas Glozar Cc: Will Deacon [ Don't mix declarations and code, move 'entries' variable to the start of scope ] [ Use pr_warning_once() instead of pr_err() in stubs for get_entries(), suggested by a local sashiko instance ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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