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<title>perf util: Kill die() prototype, dead for a long time</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:29:36+00:00</updated>
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<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2026-04-08T17:31:57+00:00</published>
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[ 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 &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf expr: Return -EINVAL for syntax error in expr__find_ids()</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:29:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leo Yan</name>
<email>leo.yan@arm.com</email>
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<published>2026-04-02T16:04:47+00:00</published>
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[ 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 &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf branch: Avoid incrementing NULL</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:29:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
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<published>2026-03-12T22:31:31+00:00</published>
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[ 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 &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf callchain: Fix srcline printing with inlines</title>
<updated>2026-03-04T12:19:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-11T04:13:36+00:00</published>
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[ 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 &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Howard Chu &lt;howardchu95@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Brennan &lt;stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Jones &lt;tonyj@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf tools: Fix split kallsyms DSO counting</title>
<updated>2026-01-19T12:11:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-02T23:57:15+00:00</published>
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[ 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 &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 2e538c4a1847291cf ("perf tools: Improve kernel/modules symbol lookup")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf session: Fix handling when buffer exceeds 2 GiB</title>
<updated>2025-10-29T13:01:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leo Yan</name>
<email>leo.yan@arm.com</email>
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<published>2025-08-08T13:24:40+00:00</published>
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[ 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 &lt;tamas.zsoldos@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250808-perf_fix_big_buffer_size-v1-1-45f45444a9a4@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf util: Fix compression checks returning -1 as bool</title>
<updated>2025-10-29T13:01:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yunseong Kim</name>
<email>ysk@kzalloc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-22T16:25:08+00:00</published>
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[ 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 &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yunseong Kim &lt;ysk@kzalloc.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Brennan &lt;stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250822162506.316844-3-ysk@kzalloc.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf tests bp_account: Fix leaked file descriptor</title>
<updated>2025-08-28T14:22:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leo Yan</name>
<email>leo.yan@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-11T11:10:15+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4a6cdecaa1497f1fbbd1d5307a225b6ca5a62a90 ]

Since the commit e9846f5ead26 ("perf test: In forked mode add check that
fds aren't leaked"), the test "Breakpoint accounting" reports the error:

  # perf test -vvv "Breakpoint accounting"
  20: Breakpoint accounting:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 373
  failed opening event 0
  failed opening event 0
  watchpoints count 4, breakpoints count 6, has_ioctl 1, share 0
  wp 0 created
  wp 1 created
  wp 2 created
  wp 3 created
  wp 0 modified to bp
  wp max created
  ---- end(0) ----
  Leak of file descriptor 7 that opened: 'anon_inode:[perf_event]'

A watchpoint's file descriptor was not properly released. This patch
fixes the leak.

Fixes: 032db28e5fa3 ("perf tests: Add breakpoint accounting/modify test")
Reported-by: Aishwarya TCV &lt;aishwarya.tcv@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250711-perf_fix_breakpoint_accounting-v1-1-b314393023f9@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf record: Fix incorrect --user-regs comments</title>
<updated>2025-06-27T10:04:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dapeng Mi</name>
<email>dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-03T06:08:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a4a859eb6704a8aa46aa1cec5396c8d41383a26b ]

The comment of "--user-regs" option is not correct, fix it.

"on interrupt," -&gt; "in user space,"

Fixes: 84c417422798c897 ("perf record: Support direct --user-regs arguments")
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi &lt;dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250403060810.196028-1-dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf tests switch-tracking: Fix timestamp comparison</title>
<updated>2025-06-27T10:04:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leo Yan</name>
<email>leo.yan@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-31T17:27:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 628e124404b3db5e10e17228e680a2999018ab33 ]

The test might fail on the Arm64 platform with the error:

  # perf test -vvv "Track with sched_switch"
  Missing sched_switch events
  #

The issue is caused by incorrect handling of timestamp comparisons. The
comparison result, a signed 64-bit value, was being directly cast to an
int, leading to incorrect sorting for sched events.

The case does not fail everytime, usually I can trigger the failure
after run 20 ~ 30 times:

  # while true; do perf test "Track with sched_switch"; done
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : FAILED!
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : FAILED!
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok
  106: Track with sched_switch                                         : Ok

I used cross compiler to build Perf tool on my host machine and tested on
Debian / Juno board.  Generally, I think this issue is not very specific
to GCC versions.  As both internal CI and my local env can reproduce the
issue.

My Host Build compiler:

  # aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc --version
  aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) 13.3.0

Juno Board:

  # lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Debian
  Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
  Release:        12
  Codename:       bookworm

Fix this by explicitly returning 0, 1, or -1 based on whether the result
is zero, positive, or negative.

Fixes: d44bc558297222d9 ("perf tests: Add a test for tracking with sched_switch")
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250331172759.115604-1-leo.yan@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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