kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/util/annotate-data.c, branch v7.0-rc7

perf disasm: Rework the string arch__is to use the ELF machine

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

Add new arch__is_x86 and arch__is_powerpc functions that avoid string comparisons and use the ELF machine. Remove arch__is() that is no longer used. 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 disasm: Constify use of 'struct arch'

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

The 'struct arch' holds variables that are read but not written, except during some initialization. Change most uses to be for a "const struct arch *" version to capture this immutability. 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 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

perf annotate: Save pointer offset in stack state

2025-10-21T13:02:49+00:00

The tracked pointer offset was not being preserved in the stack state, which could lead to incorrect type analysis. This change adds a ptr_offset field to the type_state_stack struct and passes it to set_stack_state and findnew_stack_state to ensure the offset is preserved after the pointer is loaded from a stack location. It improves the type annotation coverage and quality. Signed-off-by: Zecheng Li Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf annotate: Track arithmetic instructions on pointers

2025-10-21T13:02:49+00:00

Track the arithmetic operations on registers with pointer types. We handle only add, sub and lea instructions. The original pointer information needs to be preserved for getting outermost struct types. For example, reg0 points to a struct cfs_rq, when we add 0x10 to reg0, it should preserve the information of struct cfs_rq + 0x10 in the register instead of a pointer type to the child field at 0x10. Details: 1. struct type_state_reg now includes an offset, indicating if the register points to the start or an internal part of its associated type. This offset is used in mem to reg and reg to stack mem transfers, and also applied to the final type offset. 2. lea offset(%sp/%fp), reg is now treated as taking the address of a stack variable. It worked fine in most cases, but an issue with this approach is the pointer type may not exist. 3. lea offset(%base), reg is handled by moving the type from %base and adding an offset, similar to an add operation followed by a mov reg to reg. 4. Non-stack variables from DWARF with non-zero offsets in their location expressions are now accepted with register offset tracking. Multi-register addressing modes in LEA are not supported. Signed-off-by: Zecheng Li Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf annotate: Track address registers via TSR_KIND_POINTER

2025-10-21T13:02:49+00:00

Introduce TSR_KIND_POINTER to improve the data type profiler's ability to track pointer-based memory accesses and address register variables. TSR_KIND_POINTER represents that the location holds a pointer type to the type in the type state. The semantics match the `breg` registers that describe a memory location. This change implements handling for this new kind in mov instructions and in the check_matching_type() function. When a TSR_KIND_POINTER is moved to the stack, the stack state size is set to the architecture's pointer size. Signed-off-by: Zecheng Li Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf annotate: Rename TSR_KIND_POINTER to TSR_KIND_PERCPU_POINTER

2025-10-03T19:49:51+00:00

TSR_KIND_POINTER only represents percpu pointers currently. Rename it to TSR_KIND_PERCPU_POINTER so we can use the TSR_KIND_POINTER to represent pointer to a type. Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Zecheng Li Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Xu Liu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf dwarf-aux: Better variable collection for insn tracking

2025-09-19T15:14:30+00:00

Utilizes the previous is_breg_access_indirect function to determine if the register + offset stores the variable itself or the struct it points to, save the information in die_var_type.is_reg_var_addr. Since we are storing the real types in the stack state, we need to do a type dereference when is_reg_var_addr is set to false for stack/frame registers. For other gp registers, skip the variable when the register is a pointer to the type. If we want to accept these variables, we might also utilize is_reg_var_addr in a different way, we need to mark that register as a pointer to the type. Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Zecheng Li Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Xu Liu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate-data: Add annotated_data_type__get_member_name()

2025-03-13T07:19:51+00:00

Factor out a function to get the name of member field at the given offset. This will be used in other places. Also update the output of typeoff sort key a little bit. As we know that some special types like (stack operation), (stack canary) and (unknown) won't have fields, skip printing the offset and field. For example, the following change is expected. "(stack operation) +0 (no field)" ==> "(stack operation)" Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310224925.799005-2-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf annotate-data: Handle direct use of stack pointer without fbreg

2025-02-26T21:42:49+00:00

Sometimes compiler generates code to use the stack pointer register without frame pointer. As we know RSP is the stack register on x86, let's treat it as same as fbreg. But the offset would be opposite direction so update the debug message accordingly. Reported-by: Blake Jones Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250126210242.1181225-1-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim