kernel/linux.git/tools/perf, branch v6.1.175

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

2026-06-01T15:39:19+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()

2026-06-01T15:39:19+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: tools: cs-etm: Fix print issue for Coresight debug in ETE/TRBE trace

2026-06-01T15:39:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6c478e7b3eba3f387a2d6c749e3e3ee0f8ad1c53 ] Building perf with CORESIGHT=1 and the optional CSTRACE_RAW=1 enables additional debug printing of raw trace data when using command:- perf report --dump. This raw trace prints the CoreSight formatted trace frames, which may be used to investigate suspected issues with trace quality / corruption / decode. These frames are not present in ETE + TRBE trace. This fix removes the unnecessary call to print these frames. This fix also rationalises implementation - original code had helper function that unnecessarily repeated initialisation calls that had already been made. Due to an addtional fault with the OpenCSD library, this call when ETE/TRBE are being decoded will cause a segfault in perf. This fix also prevents that problem for perf using older (<= 1.8.0 version) OpenCSD libraries. Fixes: 68ffe3902898 ("perf tools: Add decoder mechanic to support dumping trace data") Reported-by: Leo Yan Signed-off-by: Mike Leach Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf branch: Avoid incrementing NULL

2026-06-01T15:39:19+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

2026-03-04T12:20:10+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

2026-01-11T14:18:34+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 record: skip synthesize event when open evsel failed

2026-01-11T14:18:21+00:00

[ Upstream commit 163e5f2b96632b7fb2eaa965562aca0dbdf9f996 ] When using perf record with the `--overwrite` option, a segmentation fault occurs if an event fails to open. For example: perf record -e cycles-ct -F 1000 -a --overwrite Error: cycles-ct:H: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat' perf: Segmentation fault #0 0x6466b6 in dump_stack debug.c:366 #1 0x646729 in sighandler_dump_stack debug.c:378 #2 0x453fd1 in sigsegv_handler builtin-record.c:722 #3 0x7f8454e65090 in __restore_rt libc-2.32.so[54090] #4 0x6c5671 in __perf_event__synthesize_id_index synthetic-events.c:1862 #5 0x6c5ac0 in perf_event__synthesize_id_index synthetic-events.c:1943 #6 0x458090 in record__synthesize builtin-record.c:2075 #7 0x45a85a in __cmd_record builtin-record.c:2888 #8 0x45deb6 in cmd_record builtin-record.c:4374 #9 0x4e5e33 in run_builtin perf.c:349 #10 0x4e60bf in handle_internal_command perf.c:401 #11 0x4e6215 in run_argv perf.c:448 #12 0x4e653a in main perf.c:555 #13 0x7f8454e4fa72 in __libc_start_main libc-2.32.so[3ea72] #14 0x43a3ee in _start ??:0 The --overwrite option implies --tail-synthesize, which collects non-sample events reflecting the system status when recording finishes. However, when evsel opening fails (e.g., unsupported event 'cycles-ct'), session->evlist is not initialized and remains NULL. The code unconditionally calls record__synthesize() in the error path, which iterates through the NULL evlist pointer and causes a segfault. To fix it, move the record__synthesize() call inside the error check block, so it's only called when there was no error during recording, ensuring that evlist is properly initialized. Fixes: 4ea648aec019 ("perf record: Add --tail-synthesize option") Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf test: Don't leak workload gopipe in PERF_RECORD_*

2025-10-19T14:23:06+00:00

[ Upstream commit 48918cacefd226af44373e914e63304927c0e7dc ] The test starts a workload and then opens events. If the events fail to open, for example because of perf_event_paranoid, the gopipe of the workload is leaked and the file descriptor leak check fails when the test exits. To avoid this cancel the workload when opening the events fails. Before: ``` $ perf test -vv 7 7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields: --- start --- test child forked, pid 1189568 Using CPUID GenuineIntel-6-B7-1 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) config 0xa00000000 (cpu_atom/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/) disabled 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 0 cpu -1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) config 0xa00000000 (cpu_atom/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/) disabled 1 exclude_kernel 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 0 cpu -1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 3 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) config 0x400000000 (cpu_core/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/) disabled 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 0 cpu -1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) config 0x400000000 (cpu_core/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/) disabled 1 exclude_kernel 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 0 cpu -1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 3 Attempt to add: software/cpu-clock/ ..after resolving event: software/config=0/ cpu-clock -> software/cpu-clock/ ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE) size 136 config 0x9 (PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY) sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU read_format ID|LOST disabled 1 inherit 1 mmap 1 comm 1 enable_on_exec 1 task 1 sample_id_all 1 mmap2 1 comm_exec 1 ksymbol 1 bpf_event 1 { wakeup_events, wakeup_watermark } 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 1189569 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13 perf_evlist__open: Permission denied ---- end(-2) ---- Leak of file descriptor 6 that opened: 'pipe:[14200347]' ---- unexpected signal (6) ---- iFailed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon #0 0x565358f6666e in child_test_sig_handler builtin-test.c:311 #1 0x7f29ce849df0 in __restore_rt libc_sigaction.c:0 #2 0x7f29ce89e95c in __pthread_kill_implementation pthread_kill.c:44 #3 0x7f29ce849cc2 in raise raise.c:27 #4 0x7f29ce8324ac in abort abort.c:81 #5 0x565358f662d4 in check_leaks builtin-test.c:226 #6 0x565358f6682e in run_test_child builtin-test.c:344 #7 0x565358ef7121 in start_command run-command.c:128 #8 0x565358f67273 in start_test builtin-test.c:545 #9 0x565358f6771d in __cmd_test builtin-test.c:647 #10 0x565358f682bd in cmd_test builtin-test.c:849 #11 0x565358ee5ded in run_builtin perf.c:349 #12 0x565358ee6085 in handle_internal_command perf.c:401 #13 0x565358ee61de in run_argv perf.c:448 #14 0x565358ee6527 in main perf.c:555 #15 0x7f29ce833ca8 in __libc_start_call_main libc_start_call_main.h:74 #16 0x7f29ce833d65 in __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 libc-start.c:128 #17 0x565358e391c1 in _start perf[851c1] 7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : FAILED! ``` After: ``` $ perf test 7 7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : Skip (permissions) ``` Fixes: 16d00fee703866c6 ("perf tests: Move test__PERF_RECORD into separate object") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Chun-Tse Shao Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf session: Fix handling when buffer exceeds 2 GiB

2025-10-19T14:23:06+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 arm_spe: Correct memory level for remote access

2025-10-19T14:23:06+00:00

[ Upstream commit cb300e3515057fb555983ce47e8acc86a5c69c3c ] For remote accesses, the data source packet does not contain information about the memory level. To avoid misinformation, set the memory level to NA (Not Available). Fixes: 4e6430cbb1a9f1dc ("perf arm-spe: Use SPE data source for neoverse cores") Reviewed-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Leo Yan Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ali Saidi Cc: German Gomez Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin