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

perf kvm stat: Fix relative paths for including headers

2026-03-17T20:16:45+00:00

Add an extra "../" to the relative paths so that the uAPI headers provided by tools can be found correctly. Fixes: a724a8fce5e25b45 ("perf kvm stat: Fix build error") Reported-by: Namhyung Kim Suggested-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Leo Yan Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf parse-events: Fix big-endian 'overwrite' by writing correct union member

2026-03-17T20:16:09+00:00

The "Read backward ring buffer" test crashes on big-endian (e.g. s390x) due to a NULL dereference when the backward mmap path isn't enabled. Reproducer: # ./perf test -F 'Read backward ring buffer' Segmentation fault (core dumped) # uname -m s390x # Root cause: get_config_terms() stores into evsel_config_term::val.val (u64) while later code reads boolean fields such as evsel_config_term::val.overwrite. On big-endian the 1-byte boolean is left-aligned, so writing evsel_config_term::val.val = 1 is read back as evsel_config_term::val.overwrite = 0, leaving backward mmap disabled and a NULL map being used. Store values in the union member that matches the term type, e.g.: /* for OVERWRITE */ new_term->val.overwrite = 1; /* not new_term->val.val = 1 */ to fix this. Improve add_config_term() and add two more parameters for string and value. Function add_config_term() now creates a complete node element of type evsel_config_term and handles all evsel_config_term::val union members. Impact: Enables backward mmap on big-endian and prevents the crash. No change on little-endian. Output after: # ./perf test -Fv 44 --- start --- Using CPUID IBM,9175,705,ME1,3.8,002f mmap size 1052672B mmap size 8192B ---- end ---- 44: Read backward ring buffer : Ok # Fixes: 159ca97cd97ce8cc ("perf parse-events: Refactor get_config_terms() to remove macros") Reviewed-by: James Clark Reviewed-by: Jan Polensky Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter Acked-by: Ian Rogers Cc: James Clark Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf metricgroup: Fix metricgroup__has_metric_or_groups()

2026-03-17T20:16:05+00:00

Use metricgroup__for_each_metric() rather than pmu_metrics_table__for_each_metric() that combines the default metric table with, a potentially empty, CPUID table. Fixes: cee275edcdb1acfd ("perf metricgroup: Don't early exit if no CPUID table exists") Reviewed-by: Leo Yan Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Tested-by: Leo Yan Cc: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf synthetic-events: Fix stale build ID in module MMAP2 records

2026-03-11T20:47:42+00:00

perf_event__synthesize_modules() allocates a single union perf_event and reuses it across every kernel module callback. After the first module is processed, perf_record_mmap2__read_build_id() sets PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_BUILD_ID in header.misc and writes that module's build ID into the event. On subsequent iterations the callback overwrites start, len, pid, and filename for the next module but never clears the stale build ID fields or the MMAP_BUILD_ID flag. When perf_record_mmap2__read_build_id() runs for the second module it sees the flag, reads the stale build ID into a dso_id, and __dso__improve_id() permanently poisons the DSO with the wrong build ID. Every module after the first therefore receives the first module's build ID in its MMAP2 record. On a system with the sunrpc and nfsd modules loaded, this causes perf script and perf report to show [unknown] for all module symbols. The latent bug has existed since commit d9f2ecbc5e47fca7 ("perf dso: Move build_id to dso_id") introduced the PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_BUILD_ID check in perf_record_mmap2__read_build_id(). Commit 53b00ff358dc75b1 ("perf record: Make --buildid-mmap the default") then exposed it to all users by making the MMAP2-with-build-ID path the default. Both commits were merged in the same series. Clear the MMAP_BUILD_ID flag and zero the build_id union before each call to perf_record_mmap2__read_build_id() so that every module starts with a clean slate. Fixes: d9f2ecbc5e47fca7 ("perf dso: Move build_id to dso_id") Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate loongarch: Fix off-by-one bug in outside check

2026-03-10T15:06:57+00:00

A copy-paste of a similar issue fixed by Peter Collingbourne in: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20260304190613.2507582-1-pcc@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Bill Wendling Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Justin Stitt Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Peter Collingbourne Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate: Fix hashmap__new() error checking

2026-03-10T13:19:44+00:00

The hashmap__new() function never returns NULL, it returns error pointers. Fix the error checking to match. Additionally, set src->samples to NULL to prevent any later code from accidentally using the error pointer. Fixes: d3e7cad6f36d9e80 ("perf annotate: Add a hashmap for symbol histogram") Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Chen Ni Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tianyou Li Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf cs-etm: Finish removal of ETM_OPT_*

2026-03-10T12:50:44+00:00

These #defines have been removed from the kernel headers in favour of the string based PMU format attributes. Usages were previously removed from the recording side of cs-etm in Perf. Finish the removal by removing usages from the decode side too. It's a straight replacement of the old #defines with the new register bit definitions. Except cs_etm__setup_timeless_decoding() which wasn't looking at the saved metadata and was instead hard coding an access to 'attr.config'. This was vulnerable to the same issue of .config being moved to .config2 etc that the original removal of ETM_OPT_* tried to fix. So fix that too. Signed-off-by: James Clark Tested-by: Leo Yan Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf disasm: Fix off-by-one bug in outside check

2026-03-05T19:51:09+00:00

If a branch target points to one past the end of a function, the branch should be treated as a branch to another function. This can happen e.g. with a tail call to a function that is laid out immediately after the caller. Fixes: 751b1783da784299 ("perf annotate: Mark jumps to outher functions with the call arrow") Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Bill Wendling Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Justin Stitt Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ide471112e82d68177e0faf08ca411d9fcf0a7bdf Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.0-1-2026-02-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

2026-02-21T18:51:08+00:00

Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: - Introduce 'perf sched stats' tool with record/report/diff workflows using schedstat counters - Add a faster libdw based addr2line implementation and allow selecting it or its alternatives via 'perf config addr2line.style=' - Data-type profiling fixes and improvements including the ability to select fields using 'perf report''s -F/-fields, e.g.: 'perf report --fields overhead,type' - Add 'perf test' regression tests for Data-type profiling with C and Rust workloads - Fix srcline printing with inlines in callchains, make sure this has coverage in 'perf test' - Fix printing of leaf IP in LBR callchains - Fix display of metrics without sufficient permission in 'perf stat' - Print all machines in 'perf kvm report -vvv', not just the host - Switch from SHA-1 to BLAKE2s for build ID generation, remove SHA-1 code - Fix 'perf report's histogram entry collapsing with '-F' option - Use system's cacheline size instead of a hardcoded value in 'perf report' - Allow filtering conversion by time range in 'perf data' - Cover conversion to CTF using 'perf data' in 'perf test' - Address newer glibc const-correctness (-Werror=discarded-qualifiers) issues - Fixes and improvements for ARM's CoreSight support, simplify ARM SPE event config in 'perf mem', update docs for 'perf c2c' including the ARM events it can be used with - Build support for generating metrics from arch specific python script, add extra AMD, Intel, ARM64 metrics using it - Add AMD Zen 6 events and metrics - Add JSON file with OpenHW Risc-V CVA6 hardware counters - Add 'perf kvm' stats live testing - Add more 'perf stat' tests to 'perf test' - Fix segfault in `perf lock contention -b/--use-bpf` - Fix various 'perf test' cases for s390 - Build system cleanups, bump minimum shellcheck version to 0.7.2 - Support building the capstone based annotation routines as a plugin - Allow passing extra Clang flags via EXTRA_BPF_FLAGS * tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.0-1-2026-02-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (255 commits) perf test script: Add python script testing support perf test script: Add perl script testing support perf script: Allow the generated script to be a path perf test: perf data --to-ctf testing perf test: Test pipe mode with data conversion --to-json perf json: Pipe mode --to-ctf support perf json: Pipe mode --to-json support perf check: Add libbabeltrace to the listed features perf build: Allow passing extra Clang flags via EXTRA_BPF_FLAGS perf test data_type_profiling.sh: Skip just the Rust tests if code_with_type workload is missing tools build: Fix feature test for rust compiler perf libunwind: Fix calls to thread__e_machine() perf stat: Add no-affinity flag perf evlist: Reduce affinity use and move into iterator, fix no affinity perf evlist: Missing TPEBS close in evlist__close() perf evlist: Special map propagation for tool events that read on 1 CPU perf stat-shadow: In prepare_metric fix guard on reading NULL perf_stat_evsel Revert "perf tool_pmu: More accurately set the cpus for tool events" tools build: Emit dependencies file for test-rust.bin tools build: Make test-rust.bin be removed by the 'clean' target ...

perf json: Pipe mode --to-ctf support

2026-02-12T20:45:22+00:00

In pipe mode the environment may not be fully initialized so be robust to fields being NULL. Add default handling of attr events, use the feature events to populate the ctf writer environment. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Derek Foreman Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo