kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/util/machine.h, branch v7.2-rc2

perf machine: Propagate machine__init() error to callers

2026-06-17T12:21:03+00:00

machine__init() always returns 0 even when memory allocation fails, because commit 81f981d7ec43ed93 ("perf machine: Free root_dir in machine__init() error path") introduced 'int err = -ENOMEM' and an error cleanup path but left the final 'return 0' instead of 'return err'. Fix by returning err, check the return value in __machine__new_host() which was ignoring it, and change machines__init() from void to int so it too can propagate the error to perf_session__new(), aslr_tool__init() and test callers. The error cleanup also used zfree(&machine->kmaps), but kmaps is a refcounted maps structure — use maps__zput() to properly drop the reference, matching machine__exit(). Move dsos__init() and threads__init() before the first fallible allocation (maps__new) so that machine__exit() is safe to call on any machine struct that machine__init() touched, even on early failure. Fixes: 81f981d7ec43ed93 ("perf machine: Free root_dir in machine__init() error path") Reported-by: sashiko-bot Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Use perf_env e_machine rather than arch

2026-06-03T19:46:37+00:00

The arch string is derived from uname and may be normalized causing potential differences meaning the ELF machine can be more precise. Reduce the scope of machine__is as often it is better to use a thread for the e_machine rather than the machine. Switch from string to ELF machine constant comparisons. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Honglei Wang Cc: Jan Polensky Cc: Sumanth Korikkar Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Vasily Gorbik Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf callchain: Don't pass evsel and sample

2026-05-20T19:35:59+00:00

As struct perf_sample now directly contains its own resolved evsel pointer, passing the evsel separately is redundant and clutters the interface. Remove the redundant evsel parameter from callchain-specific handlers and structures, ensuring the tool always directly accesses the evsel bound to the sample. This simplifies the API signatures and eliminates the risk of passing an inconsistent evsel. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Jones Cc: Anup Patel Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Blake Jones Cc: Chen Ni Cc: Chun-Tse Shao Cc: Dapeng Mi Cc: Derek Foreman Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Hrishikesh Suresh Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quan Zhou Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Swapnil Sapkal Cc: Thomas Falcon Cc: Tianyou Li Cc: Yujie Liu Cc: tanze Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Explicitly pass in host perf_env

2025-07-25T17:37:57+00:00

When creating a machine for the host explicitly pass in a scoped perf_env. This removes a use of the global perf_env. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-17-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf machine: Factor creating a "live" machine out of dwarf-unwind

2025-05-28T12:24:59+00:00

Factor out for use in places other than the dwarf unwinding tests for libunwind. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Anne Macedo Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Michael Petlan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Yicong Yang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250313052952.871958-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report: Add machine parallelism

2025-02-18T06:00:50+00:00

Add calculation of the current parallelism level (number of threads actively running on CPUs). The parallelism level can be shown in reports on its own, and to calculate latency overheads. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0f8c1b8eb12619029e31b3d5c0346f4616a5aeda.1739437531.git.dvyukov@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tools: Deadcode removal

2025-02-10T19:46:02+00:00

The last use of machine__fprintf_vmlinux_path() was removed in 2011 by commit ab81f3fd350c ("perf top: Reuse the 'report' hist_entry/hists classes") mmap_cpu_mask__duplicate() was added in 2021 by commit 6bd006c6eb7f ("perf mmap: Introduce mmap_cpu_mask__duplicate()") but hasn't been used since. Remove them. Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Tested-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250204220545.456435-1-linux@treblig.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf callchain: Allow symbols to be optional when resolving a callchain

2024-09-10T20:32:47+00:00

In uses like 'perf inject' it is not necessary to gather the symbol for each call chain location, the map for the sample IP is wanted so that build IDs and the like can be injected. Make gathering the symbol in the callchain_cursor optional. For a 'perf inject -B' command this lowers the peak RSS from 54.1MB to 29.6MB by avoiding loading symbols. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Anne Macedo Cc: Casey Chen Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sun Haiyong Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240909203740.143492-5-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf dso: Constify dso_id

2024-08-19T17:52:13+00:00

The passed dso_id is copied and so is never an out argument. Remove its mutability. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Anne Macedo Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Casey Chen Cc: Chaitanya S Prakash Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Dominique Martinet Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sun Haiyong Cc: Weilin Wang Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Yunseong Kim Cc: Ze Gao Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240817064442.2152089-5-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf dsos: Attempt to better abstract DSOs internals

2024-04-12T15:04:13+00:00

Move functions from machine and build-id to dsos. Pass 'struct dsos' rather than internal state. Rename some functions to better represent which data structure they operate on. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Anne Macedo Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Ben Gainey Cc: Changbin Du Cc: Chengen Du Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Ilkka Koskinen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: K Prateek Nayak Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Li Dong Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Markus Elfring Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paran Lee Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Song Liu Cc: Sun Haiyong Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Yanteng Si Cc: Yicong Yang Cc: zhaimingbing Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240410064214.2755936-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo