kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/util, branch v5.10.258

perf util: Kill die() prototype, dead for a long time

2026-06-01T15:29:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit e5cce1b9c82fbd48e2f1f7a25a9fad8ee228176f ] In fef2a735167a827a ("perf tools: Kill die()") the die() function was removed, but not the prototype in util.h, now when building with LIBPERL=1, during a 'make -C tools/perf build-test' routine test, it is failing as perl likes die() calls and then this clashes with this remnant, remove it. Fixes: fef2a735167a827a ("perf tools: Kill die()") Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf expr: Return -EINVAL for syntax error in expr__find_ids()

2026-06-01T15:29:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3a61fd866ef9aaa1d3158b460f852b74a2df07f4 ] expr__find_ids() propagates the parser return value directly. For syntax errors, the parser can return a positive value, but callers treat it as success, e.g., for below case on Arm64 platform: metric expr 100 * (STALL_SLOT_BACKEND / (CPU_CYCLES * #slots) - BR_MIS_PRED * 3 / CPU_CYCLES) for backend_bound parsing metric: 100 * (STALL_SLOT_BACKEND / (CPU_CYCLES * #slots) - BR_MIS_PRED * 3 / CPU_CYCLES) Failure to read '#slots' literal: #slots = nan syntax error Convert positive parser returns in expr__find_ids() to -EINVAL, as a result, the error value will be respected by callers. Before: perf stat -C 5 Failure to read '#slots'Failure to read '#slots'Failure to read '#slots'Failure to read '#slots'Segmentation fault After: perf stat -C 5 Failure to read '#slots'Cannot find metric or group `Default' Fixes: ded80bda8bc9 ("perf expr: Migrate expr ids table to a hashmap") Signed-off-by: Leo Yan Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf branch: Avoid incrementing NULL

2026-06-01T15:29:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit c969a9d7bbf46f983c4a48566b3b2f7340b02296 ] If the entry is NULL the value is meaningless so early return NULL to avoid an increment of NULL. This was happening in calls from has_stitched_lbr when running the "perf record LBR tests". The return value isn't used in that case, so returning NULL as no effect. Fixes: 42bbabed09ce ("perf tools: Add hw_idx in struct branch_stack") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf callchain: Fix srcline printing with inlines

2026-03-04T12:19:50+00:00

[ Upstream commit abec464767b5d26f0612250d511c18f420826ca1 ] sample__fprintf_callchain() was using map__fprintf_srcline() which won't report inline line numbers. Fix by using the srcline from the callchain and falling back to the map variant. Fixes: 25da4fab5f66e659 ("perf evsel: Move fprintf methods to separate source file") Reviewed-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephen Brennan Cc: Tony Jones Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf tools: Fix split kallsyms DSO counting

2026-01-19T12:11:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit ad0b9c4865b98dc37f4d606d26b1c19808796805 ] It's counted twice as it's increased after calling maps__insert(). I guess we want to increase it only after it's added properly. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Fixes: 2e538c4a1847291cf ("perf tools: Improve kernel/modules symbol lookup") Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf session: Fix handling when buffer exceeds 2 GiB

2025-10-29T13:01:09+00:00

[ Upstream commit c17dda8013495d8132c976cbf349be9949d0fbd1 ] If a user specifies an AUX buffer larger than 2 GiB, the returned size may exceed 0x80000000. Since the err variable is defined as a signed 32-bit integer, such a value overflows and becomes negative. As a result, the perf record command reports an error: 0x146e8 [0x30]: failed to process type: 71 [Unknown error 183711232] Change the type of the err variable to a signed 64-bit integer to accommodate large buffer sizes correctly. Fixes: d5652d865ea734a1 ("perf session: Add ability to skip 4GiB or more") Reported-by: Tamas Zsoldos Signed-off-by: Leo Yan Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250808-perf_fix_big_buffer_size-v1-1-45f45444a9a4@arm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf util: Fix compression checks returning -1 as bool

2025-10-29T13:01:08+00:00

[ Upstream commit 43fa1141e2c1af79c91aaa4df03e436c415a6fc3 ] The lzma_is_compressed and gzip_is_compressed functions are declared to return a "bool" type, but in case of an error (e.g., file open failure), they incorrectly returned -1. A bool type is a boolean value that is either true or false. Returning -1 for a bool return type can lead to unexpected behavior and may violate strict type-checking in some compilers. Fix the return value to be false in error cases, ensuring the function adheres to its declared return type improves for preventing potential bugs related to type mismatch. Fixes: 4b57fd44b61beb51 ("perf tools: Add lzma_is_compressed function") Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Yunseong Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Stephen Brennan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250822162506.316844-3-ysk@kzalloc.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf python: Check if there is space to copy all the event

2025-04-10T12:30:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit 89aaeaf84231157288035b366cb6300c1c6cac64 ] The pyrf_event__new() method copies the event obtained from the perf ring buffer to a structure that will then be turned into a python object for further consumption, so it copies perf_event.header.size bytes to its 'event' member: $ pahole -C pyrf_event /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/python/perf.cpython-312-x86_64-linux-gnu.so struct pyrf_event { PyObject ob_base; /* 0 16 */ struct evsel * evsel; /* 16 8 */ struct perf_sample sample; /* 24 312 */ /* XXX last struct has 7 bytes of padding, 2 holes */ /* --- cacheline 5 boundary (320 bytes) was 16 bytes ago --- */ union perf_event event; /* 336 4168 */ /* size: 4504, cachelines: 71, members: 4 */ /* member types with holes: 1, total: 2 */ /* paddings: 1, sum paddings: 7 */ /* last cacheline: 24 bytes */ }; $ It was doing so without checking if the event just obtained has more than that space, fix it. This isn't a proper, final solution, as we need to support larger events, but for the time being we at least bounds check and document it. Fixes: 877108e42b1b9ba6 ("perf tools: Initial python binding") Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250312203141.285263-7-acme@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf python: Don't keep a raw_data pointer to consumed ring buffer space

2025-04-10T12:30:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit f3fed3ae34d606819d87a63d970cc3092a5be7ab ] When processing tracepoints the perf python binding was parsing the event before calling perf_mmap__consume(&md->core) in pyrf_evlist__read_on_cpu(). But part of this event parsing was to set the perf_sample->raw_data pointer to the payload of the event, which then could be overwritten by other event before tracepoint fields were asked for via event.prev_comm in a python program, for instance. This also happened with other fields, but strings were were problems were surfacing, as there is UTF-8 validation for the potentially garbled data. This ended up showing up as (with some added debugging messages): ( field 'prev_comm' ret=0x7f7c31f65110, raw_size=68 ) ( field 'prev_pid' ret=0x7f7c23b1bed0, raw_size=68 ) ( field 'prev_prio' ret=0x7f7c239c0030, raw_size=68 ) ( field 'prev_state' ret=0x7f7c239c0250, raw_size=68 ) time 14771421785867 prev_comm= prev_pid=1919907691 prev_prio=796026219 prev_state=0x303a32313175 ==> ( XXX '��' len=16, raw_size=68) ( field 'next_comm' ret=(nil), raw_size=68 ) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py", line 51, in main() File "/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py", line 46, in main event.next_comm, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AttributeError: 'perf.sample_event' object has no attribute 'next_comm' When event.next_comm was asked for, the PyUnicode_FromString() python API would fail and that tracepoint field wouldn't be available, stopping the tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py test tool. But, since we already do a copy of the whole event in pyrf_event__new, just use it and while at it remove what was done in in e8968e654191390a ("perf python: Fix pyrf_evlist__read_on_cpu event consuming") because we don't really need to wait for parsing the sample before declaring the event as consumed. This copy is questionable as is now, as it limits the maximum event + sample_type and tracepoint payload to sizeof(union perf_event), this all has been "working" because 'struct perf_event_mmap2', the largest entry in 'union perf_event' is: $ pahole -C perf_event ~/bin/perf | grep mmap2 struct perf_record_mmap2 mmap2; /* 0 4168 */ $ Fixes: bae57e3825a3dded ("perf python: Add support to resolve tracepoint fields") Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250312203141.285263-6-acme@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf python: Decrement the refcount of just created event on failure

2025-04-10T12:30:58+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3de5a2bf5b4847f7a59a184568f969f8fe05d57f ] To avoid a leak if we have the python object but then something happens and we need to return the operation, decrement the offset of the newly created object. Fixes: 377f698db12150a1 ("perf python: Add struct evsel into struct pyrf_event") Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250312203141.285263-5-acme@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin