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2026-01-15perf cs-etm: Don't use hard coded config bits when setting up ETMCRJames Clark1-1/+34
Perf only looks at attr.config when determining what was programmed into ETMCR. These bits could theoretically be in any of the config fields. Add a generic helper to find the value of any named format field in any config field and then use it to get the attributes relevant to ETMCR. The kernel will also stop publishing the ETMCR register bits in a header [1] so preempt that by defining them here. Move field_prep() to util.h so we can define it along side field_get(). Unfortunately FIELD_PREP() and FIELD_GET() from the kernel can't be used as they require the mask to be a compile time constant. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20251128-james-cs-syncfreq-v8-10-4d319764cc58@linaro.org/ Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-15perf cs-etm: Make a helper to find the Coresight evselJames Clark1-23/+27
This pattern occurs a few times and we'll add another one later, so add a helper function for it. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-15perf tests: Test evsel__set_config_if_unset() and config change trackingJames Clark1-0/+91
Test that evsel__set_config_if_unset() behaves as expected. This also tests the user config change tracking mechanism as it depends on it. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-15perf parse-events: Always track user config changesJames Clark1-6/+2
Requiring the 'pmu->perf_event_attr_init_default' callback to be set to track user changes is a bit of a trap to fall in. It's hard to see that this is required when depending on the user change tracking. It's possible to want all 0 defaults so not set it, but at the same time still do some programmatic setting of configs with evsel__set_config_if_unset(). Also if a PMU reverts to 0 defaults and deletes its existing callback, it will silently break existing uses of evsel__set_config_if_unset(). One way to fix this would be to assert in evsel__set_config_if_unset() if the changes weren't tracked, but that would be a possibly untested runtime failure. Instead, always track it as it's harmless and simplifies testing too. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-15perf evsel: Add a helper to get the value of a config fieldJames Clark4-9/+74
This will be used by aux PMUs to read an already written value for configuring their events and for also testing. Its helper perf_pmu__format_unpack() does the opposite of the existing pmu_format_value() so rename that one to perf_pmu__format_pack() so it's clear how they are related. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-15perf evsel: apply evsel__set_config_if_unset() to all config fieldsJames Clark1-1/+31
Misleadingly, evsel__set_config_if_unset() only works with the config field and not config1, config2, etc. This is fine at the moment because all users of it happen to operate on bits that are in that config field. Fix it before there are any new users of the function which operate on bits in different config fields. In theory it's also possible for a driver to move an existing bit to another config field and this fixes that scenario too, although this hasn't happened yet either. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-15perf parse-events: Track all user changed config bitsJames Clark5-51/+70
Currently we only track which bits were set by the user in attr->config. But all configN fields should be treated equally as they can all have default and user overridden values. Track them all by making get_config_chgs() generic and calling it once for each config value. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-15perf evsel: Support sparse fields in evsel__set_config_if_unset()James Clark3-37/+42
Sparse config fields are technically supported although currently unused. field_prep() only works for contiguous bitfields so replace it with pmu_format_value(). pmu_format_value() also takes a bitmap rather than a u64 so replace 'u64 bits' with format->bits. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-15perf evsel: Move evsel__* functions to evsel.cJames Clark2-40/+40
At least one of these were put here to avoid a Python binding linking issue which is no longer present. Put them back in their correct location to avoid confusion about which file to add a new evsel__* function to later. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZEbAS2yx2fguW60w@kernel.org/ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-15perf evsel: Refactor evsel__set_config_if_unset() argumentsJames Clark5-14/+10
Make the evsel argument first to match the other evsel__* functions and remove the redundant pmu argument, which can be accessed via evsel. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-15perf parse-events: Refactor get_config_terms() to remove macrosJames Clark2-61/+86
The ADD_CONFIG_TERM() macros build the __type argument out of a partial EVSEL__CONFIG_TERM_x enum name. This means that they can't be called from a function where __type is a variable and it's also impossible to grep the codebase to find usages of these enums as they're never typed in full. Fix this by removing the macros and replacing them with an add_config_term() function. It seems the main reason these existed in the first place was to avoid type punning and to write to a specific field in the union, but the same thing can be achieved with a single write to a u64 'val' field. Running the Perf tests with "-fsanitize=undefined -fno-sanitize-recover" results in no new issues as a result of this change. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-14perf tools: Switch printf("...%s", strerror(errno)) to printf("...%m")Ian Rogers20-139/+104
strerror() has thread safety issues, strerror_r() requires stack allocated buffers. Code in perf has already been using the "%m" formatting flag that is a widely support glibc extension to print the current errno's description. Expand the usage of this formatting flag and remove usage of strerror()/strerror_r(). Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Cc: Blake Jones <blakejones@google.com> Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org> Cc: Haibo Xu <haibo1.xu@intel.com> Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com> Cc: Yunseong Kim <ysk@kzalloc.com> Cc: Zhongqiu Han <quic_zhonhan@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-14perf help: Move common_cmds into builtin-helpIan Rogers5-133/+49
There's a lot of infrastructure for generating a relatively simple array used by one function. Move the array into the function and remove the supporting build logic. At the same time opportunistically const-ify the array. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com> Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-14perf vendor events amd: Add Zen 6 metricsSandipan Das2-0/+438
Add metrics taken from Section 1.2 "Performance Measurement" of the Performance Monitor Counters for AMD Family 1Ah Model 50h-57h Processors document available at the link below. The recommended metrics are sourced from Table 1 "Guidance for Common Performance Statistics with Complex Event Selects". The pipeline utilization metrics are sourced from Table 2 "Guidance for Pipeline Utilization Analysis Statistics". These are useful for finding performance bottlenecks by analyzing activity at different stages of the pipeline. There are metric groups available for Level 1 and Level 2 analysis. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ananth Narayan <ananth.narayan@amd.com> Cc: Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=309149 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-14perf vendor events amd: Add Zen 6 uncore eventsSandipan Das2-0/+278
Add uncore events taken from Section 1.6 "L3 Cache Performance Monitor Counters" and Section 2.2 "UMC Performance Monitor Events" of the Performance Monitor Counters for AMD Family 1Ah Model 50h-57h Processors document available at the link below. This constitutes events which capture L3 cache and UMC command activity. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ananth Narayan <ananth.narayan@amd.com> Cc: Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=309149 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-14perf vendor events amd: Add Zen 6 core eventsSandipan Das7-0/+2499
Add core events taken from Section 1.5 "Core Performance Monitor Counters" of the Performance Monitor Counters for AMD Family 1Ah Model 50h-57h Processors document available at the link below. This constitutes events which capture information on op dispatch, execution and retirement, branch prediction, L1 and L2 cache activity, TLB activity, etc. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ananth Narayan <ananth.narayan@amd.com> Cc: Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=309149 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-14perf vendor events amd: Add Zen 6 mappingSandipan Das1-1/+2
Add a regular expression in the map file so that appropriate JSON event files are used for AMD Zen 6 processors. Restrict the regular expression for AMD Zen 5 processors to known model ranges since they also belong to Family 1Ah. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ananth Narayan <ananth.narayan@amd.com> Cc: Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ Moved this one to the front of the series to keep the tree bisectable, as per Ian Rogers suggestion ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-14perf vendor events riscv: Add CVA6 JSON fileManuel Hernández Méndez5-0/+185
This patch add the OpenHW Core-V CVA6 Risc-V JSON file. For more info: https://openhwfoundation.org/news/2023/11/07/openhw-group-announces-core-v-cva6-platform-project-for-risc-v-software-development-and-testing/ Signed-off-by: Manuel Hernández Méndez <manuel.hernandez@openchip.com> Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf addr_location: Update outdated commentJulia Lawall1-1/+1
The function addr_location__put() was renamed addr_location__exit() in commit 0dd5041c9a0eaf8c ("perf addr_location: Add init/exit/copy functions"). Make the comment preceding the function consistent with the function itself. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kexin Sun <kexinsun@smail.nju.edu.cn> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ratnadira Widyasari <ratnadiraw@smu.edu.sg> Cc: Xutong Ma <xutong.ma@inria.fr> Cc: Yumbo Lyu <yunbolyu@smu.edu.sg> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf tools: Dump callchain context marker namesJames Clark1-2/+25
These are hard to interpret in the raw output because they are printed as hex but are defined in perf_event.h as decimal. Make it much easier to read the raw callchains by just printing their names. For example: $ perf report -D 1798195372321 0x4638 [0xb0]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4002): 44922/44922: 0x7c8046dd3400 period: 120218 addr: 0 ... FP chain: nr:12 ..... 0: fffffffffffffe00 (PERF_CONTEXT_USER) ..... 1: 00007c8046dd3400 ..... 2: 00007c8046db86d3 Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> [ Add PERF_CONTEXT_USER_DEFERRED too, as per Namhyung's review comment ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf vendor events arm64: Remove uncountable eventsJames Clark3-30/+0
These events are never countable by the PMU and are only intended to be used as external inputs to trace. Therefore showing them in 'perf list' is misleading so remove them. The generator script doesn't emit these events when used with the new telemetry-solution input files [1]. 'perf list' should only show countable events because there are events that are sometimes implemented, sometimes countable and sometimes not, for example TRB_TRIG. If we always include any implemented events whether they are countable or not then it's not possible to tell whether they are usable in perf without going to the docs, defeating the point of 'perf list'. It's also not useful yet to display implemented events that are not countable (for help in using trace rather than perf stat), because PMU_OVFS and PMU_HOVFS are practically always implemented and TRB_TRIG is always implemented when there is TRBE. [1]: https://gitlab.arm.com/telemetry-solution/telemetry-solution/-/tree/main/data/pmu/cpu Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Akio Kakuno <fj3333bs@aa.jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yoshihiro Furudera <fj5100bi@fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf Documentation: Correct branch stack sampling call-stack optionDapeng Mi1-1/+1
The correct call-stack option for branch stack sampling should be "stack" instead of "call_stack". Correct it. $perf record -e instructions -j call_stack -- sleep 1 unknown branch filter call_stack, check man page Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] -j, --branch-filter <branch filter mask> branch stack filter modes Fixes: 955f6def5590ce6c ("perf record: Add remaining branch filters: "no_cycles", "no_flags" & "hw_index"") Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com> Cc: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com> Cc: Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf test: Do not skip when some metric-group tests succeedNamhyung Kim1-10/+16
I think the return value of SKIP (2) should be used when it skipped the entire test suite rather than a few of them. While the FAIL should be reserved if any of test failed. $ perf test -vv 109 109: perf all metricgroups test: --- start --- test child forked, pid 2493003 Testing Backend Testing Bad Testing BadSpec Testing BigFootprint Testing BrMispredicts Testing Branches Testing BvBC Testing BvBO Testing BvCB Testing BvFB Testing BvIO Testing BvMB Testing BvML Testing BvMP Testing BvMS Testing BvMT Testing BvOB Testing BvUW Testing CacheHits Testing CacheMisses Testing CodeGen Testing Compute Testing Cor Testing DSB Testing DSBmiss Testing DataSharing Testing Default Testing Default2 Testing Default3 Testing Default4 Ignoring failures in Default4 that may contain unsupported legacy events Testing Fed Testing FetchBW Testing FetchLat Testing Flops Testing FpScalar Testing FpVector Testing Frontend Testing HPC Testing IcMiss Testing InsType Testing LSD Testing LockCont Testing MachineClears Testing Machine_Clears Testing Mem Testing MemOffcore Testing MemoryBW Testing MemoryBound Testing MemoryLat Testing MemoryTLB Testing Memory_BW Testing Memory_Lat Testing MicroSeq Testing OS Testing Offcore Testing PGO Testing Pipeline Testing PortsUtil Testing Power Testing Prefetches Testing Ret Testing Retire Testing SMT Testing Snoop Testing SoC Testing Summary Testing TmaL1 Testing TmaL2 Testing TmaL3mem Testing TopdownL1 Testing TopdownL2 Testing TopdownL3 Testing TopdownL4 Testing TopdownL5 Testing TopdownL6 Testing smi Testing tma_L1_group Testing tma_L2_group Testing tma_L3_group Testing tma_L4_group Testing tma_L5_group Testing tma_L6_group Testing tma_alu_op_utilization_group Testing tma_assists_group Testing tma_backend_bound_group Testing tma_bad_speculation_group Testing tma_branch_mispredicts_group Testing tma_branch_resteers_group Testing tma_code_stlb_miss_group Testing tma_core_bound_group Testing tma_divider_group Testing tma_dram_bound_group Testing tma_dtlb_load_group Testing tma_dtlb_store_group Testing tma_fetch_bandwidth_group Testing tma_fetch_latency_group Testing tma_fp_arith_group Testing tma_fp_vector_group Testing tma_frontend_bound_group Testing tma_heavy_operations_group Testing tma_icache_misses_group Testing tma_issue2P Testing tma_issueBM Testing tma_issueBW Testing tma_issueComp Testing tma_issueD0 Testing tma_issueFB Testing tma_issueFL Testing tma_issueL1 Testing tma_issueLat Testing tma_issueMC Testing tma_issueMS Testing tma_issueMV Testing tma_issueRFO Testing tma_issueSL Testing tma_issueSO Testing tma_issueSmSt Testing tma_issueSpSt Testing tma_issueSyncxn Testing tma_issueTLB Testing tma_itlb_misses_group Testing tma_l1_bound_group Testing tma_l2_bound_group Testing tma_l3_bound_group Testing tma_light_operations_group Testing tma_load_stlb_miss_group Testing tma_machine_clears_group Testing tma_memory_bound_group Testing tma_microcode_sequencer_group Testing tma_mite_group Testing tma_other_light_ops_group Testing tma_ports_utilization_group Testing tma_ports_utilized_0_group Testing tma_ports_utilized_3m_group Testing tma_retiring_group Testing tma_serializing_operation_group Testing tma_store_bound_group Testing tma_store_stlb_miss_group Testing transaction ---- end(0) ---- 109: perf all metricgroups test : Ok Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf test: Do not skip when some metrics tests succeededNamhyung Kim1-7/+22
I think the return value of SKIP (2) should be used when it skipped the entire test suite rather than a few of them. While the FAIL should be reserved if any of test failed. $ perf test -vv 110 110: perf all metrics test: --- start --- test child forked, pid 2496399 Testing tma_core_bound Testing tma_info_core_ilp Testing tma_info_memory_l2mpki Testing tma_memory_bound Testing tma_bottleneck_irregular_overhead Testing tma_bottleneck_mispredictions Testing tma_info_bad_spec_branch_misprediction_cost Testing tma_info_bad_spec_ipmisp_cond_ntaken Testing tma_info_bad_spec_ipmisp_cond_taken Testing tma_info_bad_spec_ipmisp_indirect Testing tma_info_bad_spec_ipmisp_ret Testing tma_info_bad_spec_ipmispredict Testing tma_info_branches_callret Testing tma_info_branches_cond_nt Testing tma_info_branches_cond_tk Testing tma_info_branches_jump Testing tma_info_branches_other_branches Testing tma_branch_mispredicts Testing tma_clears_resteers Testing tma_machine_clears Testing tma_mispredicts_resteers Testing tma_bottleneck_big_code Testing tma_icache_misses Testing tma_itlb_misses Testing tma_unknown_branches Testing tma_info_bad_spec_spec_clears_ratio Testing tma_other_mispredicts Testing tma_branch_instructions Testing tma_info_frontend_tbpc Testing tma_info_inst_mix_bptkbranch Testing tma_info_inst_mix_ipbranch Testing tma_info_inst_mix_ipcall Testing tma_info_inst_mix_iptb Testing tma_info_system_ipfarbranch Testing tma_info_thread_uptb Testing tma_bottleneck_branching_overhead Testing tma_nop_instructions Testing tma_bottleneck_compute_bound_est Testing tma_divider Testing tma_ports_utilized_3m Testing tma_bottleneck_instruction_fetch_bw Testing tma_frontend_bound Testing tma_assists Testing tma_other_nukes Testing tma_serializing_operation Testing tma_bottleneck_data_cache_memory_bandwidth Testing tma_fb_full Testing tma_mem_bandwidth Testing tma_sq_full Testing tma_bottleneck_data_cache_memory_latency Testing tma_l1_latency_dependency Testing tma_l2_bound Testing tma_l3_hit_latency Testing tma_mem_latency Testing tma_store_latency Testing tma_bottleneck_memory_synchronization Testing tma_contested_accesses Testing tma_data_sharing Testing tma_false_sharing Testing tma_bottleneck_memory_data_tlbs Testing tma_dtlb_load Testing tma_dtlb_store Testing tma_backend_bound Testing tma_bottleneck_other_bottlenecks Testing tma_bottleneck_useful_work Testing tma_retiring Testing tma_info_memory_fb_hpki Testing tma_info_memory_l1mpki Testing tma_info_memory_l1mpki_load Testing tma_info_memory_l2hpki_all Testing tma_info_memory_l2hpki_load Testing tma_info_memory_l2mpki_all Testing tma_info_memory_l2mpki_load Testing tma_l1_bound Testing tma_l3_bound Testing tma_info_memory_l2mpki_rfo Testing tma_fp_scalar Testing tma_fp_vector Testing tma_fp_vector_128b Testing tma_fp_vector_256b Testing tma_fp_vector_512b Testing tma_port_0 Testing tma_x87_use Testing tma_info_botlnk_l0_core_bound_likely Testing tma_info_core_fp_arith_utilization Testing tma_info_pipeline_execute Testing tma_info_system_gflops Testing tma_info_thread_execute_per_issue Testing tma_dsb Testing tma_info_botlnk_l2_dsb_bandwidth Testing tma_info_frontend_dsb_coverage Testing tma_decoder0_alone Testing tma_dsb_switches Testing tma_info_botlnk_l2_dsb_misses Testing tma_info_frontend_dsb_switch_cost Testing tma_info_frontend_ipdsb_miss_ret Testing tma_mite Testing tma_mite_4wide Testing CPUs_utilized Testing backend_cycles_idle [Ignored backend_cycles_idle] failed but as a Default metric this can be expected Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop': <not counted> cpu-cycles:u <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend:u 1.014051473 seconds time elapsed 1.005718000 seconds user 0.008013000 seconds sys Testing branch_frequency Testing branch_miss_rate Testing cs_per_second Testing cycles_frequency Testing frontend_cycles_idle [Ignored frontend_cycles_idle] failed but as a Default metric this can be expected Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop': <not counted> cpu-cycles:u <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend:u 1.012813656 seconds time elapsed 1.004603000 seconds user 0.008004000 seconds sys Testing insn_per_cycle Testing migrations_per_second Testing page_faults_per_second Testing stalled_cycles_per_instruction [Ignored stalled_cycles_per_instruction] failed but as a Default metric this can be expected Error: No supported events found. The stalled-cycles-backend:u event is not supported. Testing tma_bad_speculation Testing l1d_miss_rate Testing llc_miss_rate Testing dtlb_miss_rate Testing itlb_miss_rate [Ignored itlb_miss_rate] failed but as a Default metric this can be expected Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop': <not supported> iTLB-loads:u 3,097 iTLB-load-misses:u 1.012766732 seconds time elapsed 1.004318000 seconds user 0.008002000 seconds sys Testing l1i_miss_rate [Ignored l1i_miss_rate] failed but as a Default metric this can be expected Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop': <not counted> L1-icache-load-misses:u <not supported> L1-icache-loads:u 1.013606395 seconds time elapsed 1.001371000 seconds user 0.011968000 seconds sys Testing l1_prefetch_miss_rate [Ignored l1_prefetch_miss_rate] failed but as a Default metric this can be expected Error: No supported events found. The L1-dcache-prefetches:u event is not supported. Testing tma_info_botlnk_l2_ic_misses Testing tma_info_frontend_fetch_upc Testing tma_info_frontend_icache_miss_latency Testing tma_info_frontend_ipunknown_branch Testing tma_info_frontend_lsd_coverage Testing tma_info_memory_tlb_code_stlb_mpki Testing tma_info_pipeline_fetch_dsb Testing tma_info_pipeline_fetch_lsd Testing tma_info_pipeline_fetch_mite Testing tma_info_pipeline_fetch_ms Testing tma_fetch_bandwidth Testing tma_lsd Testing tma_branch_resteers Testing tma_code_l2_hit Testing tma_code_l2_miss Testing tma_code_stlb_hit Testing tma_code_stlb_miss Testing tma_code_stlb_miss_2m Testing tma_code_stlb_miss_4k Testing tma_lcp Testing tma_ms_switches Testing tma_info_core_flopc Testing tma_info_inst_mix_iparith Testing tma_info_inst_mix_iparith_avx128 Testing tma_info_inst_mix_iparith_avx256 Testing tma_info_inst_mix_iparith_avx512 Testing tma_info_inst_mix_iparith_scalar_dp Testing tma_info_inst_mix_iparith_scalar_sp Testing tma_info_inst_mix_ipflop Testing tma_info_inst_mix_ippause Testing tma_fetch_latency Testing tma_fp_arith Testing tma_fp_assists Testing tma_info_system_cpu_utilization Testing tma_info_system_dram_bw_use [Skipped tma_info_system_dram_bw_use] Not supported events Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop': <not supported> UNC_ARB_TRK_REQUESTS.ALL:u <not supported> UNC_ARB_COH_TRK_REQUESTS.ALL:u 1,013,554,749 duration_time 1.013527265 seconds time elapsed 1.005417000 seconds user 0.008011000 seconds sys Testing tma_info_frontend_l2mpki_code Testing tma_info_frontend_l2mpki_code_all Testing tma_info_inst_mix_ipload Testing tma_info_inst_mix_ipstore Testing tma_info_memory_latency_load_l2_miss_latency Testing tma_lock_latency Testing tma_info_memory_core_l1d_cache_fill_bw_2t Testing tma_info_memory_core_l2_cache_fill_bw_2t Testing tma_info_memory_core_l3_cache_access_bw_2t Testing tma_info_memory_core_l3_cache_fill_bw_2t Testing tma_info_memory_l1d_cache_fill_bw Testing tma_info_memory_l2_cache_fill_bw Testing tma_info_memory_l3_cache_access_bw Testing tma_info_memory_l3_cache_fill_bw Testing tma_info_memory_l3mpki Testing tma_info_memory_load_miss_real_latency Testing tma_info_memory_mix_bus_lock_pki Testing tma_info_memory_mix_uc_load_pki Testing tma_info_memory_mlp Testing tma_info_memory_tlb_load_stlb_mpki Testing tma_info_memory_tlb_page_walks_utilization Testing tma_info_memory_tlb_store_stlb_mpki Testing tma_info_system_mem_parallel_reads [Skipped tma_info_system_mem_parallel_reads] Not supported events Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop': <not supported> UNC_ARB_DAT_OCCUPANCY.RD:u <not counted> UNC_ARB_DAT_OCCUPANCY.RD/cmask=1/ 1.013354884 seconds time elapsed 1.009239000 seconds user 0.004004000 seconds sys Testing tma_info_system_mem_read_latency [Skipped tma_info_system_mem_read_latency] Not supported events Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop': <not supported> UNC_ARB_DAT_OCCUPANCY.RD:u <not counted> UNC_ARB_TRK_OCCUPANCY.RD <not counted> UNC_ARB_TRK_REQUESTS.RD 1.012882143 seconds time elapsed 1.004600000 seconds user 0.008036000 seconds sys Testing tma_info_thread_cpi Testing tma_streaming_stores Testing tma_dram_bound Testing tma_store_bound Testing tma_l2_hit_latency Testing tma_load_stlb_hit Testing tma_load_stlb_miss Testing tma_load_stlb_miss_1g Testing tma_load_stlb_miss_2m Testing tma_load_stlb_miss_4k Testing tma_store_stlb_hit Testing tma_store_stlb_miss Testing tma_store_stlb_miss_1g Testing tma_store_stlb_miss_2m Testing tma_store_stlb_miss_4k Testing tma_info_memory_latency_data_l2_mlp Testing tma_info_memory_latency_load_l2_mlp Testing tma_info_pipeline_ipassist Testing tma_microcode_sequencer Testing tma_ms Testing tma_info_system_kernel_cpi [Failed tma_info_system_kernel_cpi] Metric contains missing events Error: No supported events found. Access to performance monitoring and observability operations is limited. Consider adjusting /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid setting to open access to performance monitoring and observability operations for processes without CAP_PERFMON, CAP_SYS_PTRACE or CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capability. More information can be found at 'Perf events and tool security' document: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/perf-security.html perf_event_paranoid setting is 2: -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users Ignore mlock limit after perf_event_mlock_kb without CAP_IPC_LOCK >= 0: Disallow raw and ftrace function tracepoint access >= 1: Disallow CPU event access >= 2: Disallow kernel profiling To make the adjusted perf_event_paranoid setting permanent preserve it in /etc/sysctl.conf (e.g. kernel.perf_event_paranoid = <setting>) Testing tma_info_system_kernel_utilization [Failed tma_info_system_kernel_utilization] Metric contains missing events Error: No supported events found. Access to performance monitoring and observability operations is limited. Consider adjusting /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid setting to open access to performance monitoring and observability operations for processes without CAP_PERFMON, CAP_SYS_PTRACE or CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capability. More information can be found at 'Perf events and tool security' document: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/perf-security.html perf_event_paranoid setting is 2: -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users Ignore mlock limit after perf_event_mlock_kb without CAP_IPC_LOCK >= 0: Disallow raw and ftrace function tracepoint access >= 1: Disallow CPU event access >= 2: Disallow kernel profiling To make the adjusted perf_event_paranoid setting permanent preserve it in /etc/sysctl.conf (e.g. kernel.perf_event_paranoid = <setting>) Testing tma_info_pipeline_retire Testing tma_info_thread_clks Testing tma_info_thread_uoppi Testing tma_memory_operations Testing tma_other_light_ops Testing tma_ports_utilization Testing tma_ports_utilized_0 Testing tma_ports_utilized_1 Testing tma_ports_utilized_2 Testing C10_Pkg_Residency [Failed C10_Pkg_Residency] Metric contains missing events WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match. Events with CPUs not matching the leader will be removed from the group. anon group { cstate_pkg/c10-residency/, msr/tsc/ } Error: No supported events found. Invalid event (cstate_pkg/c10-residency/u) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'. Testing C2_Pkg_Residency [Failed C2_Pkg_Residency] Metric contains missing events WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match. Events with CPUs not matching the leader will be removed from the group. anon group { cstate_pkg/c2-residency/, msr/tsc/ } Error: No supported events found. Invalid event (cstate_pkg/c2-residency/u) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'. Testing C3_Pkg_Residency [Failed C3_Pkg_Residency] Metric contains missing events WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match. Events with CPUs not matching the leader will be removed from the group. anon group { msr/tsc/, cstate_pkg/c3-residency/ } Error: No supported events found. Invalid event (msr/tsc/u) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'. Testing C6_Core_Residency [Failed C6_Core_Residency] Metric contains missing events WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match. Events with CPUs not matching the leader will be removed from the group. anon group { cstate_core/c6-residency/, msr/tsc/ } Error: No supported events found. Invalid event (cstate_core/c6-residency/u) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'. Testing C6_Pkg_Residency [Failed C6_Pkg_Residency] Metric contains missing events WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match. Events with CPUs not matching the leader will be removed from the group. anon group { cstate_pkg/c6-residency/, msr/tsc/ } Error: No supported events found. Invalid event (cstate_pkg/c6-residency/u) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'. Testing C7_Core_Residency [Failed C7_Core_Residency] Metric contains missing events WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match. Events with CPUs not matching the leader will be removed from the group. anon group { cstate_core/c7-residency/, msr/tsc/ } Error: No supported events found. Invalid event (cstate_core/c7-residency/u) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'. Testing C7_Pkg_Residency [Failed C7_Pkg_Residency] Metric contains missing events WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match. Events with CPUs not matching the leader will be removed from the group. anon group { cstate_pkg/c7-residency/, msr/tsc/ } Error: No supported events found. Invalid event (cstate_pkg/c7-residency/u) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'. Testing C8_Pkg_Residency [Failed C8_Pkg_Residency] Metric contains missing events WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match. Events with CPUs not matching the leader will be removed from the group. anon group { cstate_pkg/c8-residency/, msr/tsc/ } Error: No supported events found. Invalid event (cstate_pkg/c8-residency/u) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'. Testing C9_Pkg_Residency [Failed C9_Pkg_Residency] Metric contains missing events WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match. Events with CPUs not matching the leader will be removed from the group. anon group { cstate_pkg/c9-residency/, msr/tsc/ } Error: No supported events found. Invalid event (cstate_pkg/c9-residency/u) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'. Testing tma_info_core_epc Testing tma_info_system_core_frequency Testing tma_info_system_power [Skipped tma_info_system_power] Not supported events Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop': <not supported> Joules power/energy-pkg/u 1,013,238,256 duration_time 1.013223072 seconds time elapsed 0.995924000 seconds user 0.011903000 seconds sys Testing tma_info_system_power_license0_utilization Testing tma_info_system_power_license1_utilization Testing tma_info_system_power_license2_utilization Testing tma_info_system_turbo_utilization Testing tma_info_inst_mix_ipswpf Testing tma_info_memory_prefetches_useless_hwpf Testing tma_info_core_coreipc Testing tma_info_thread_ipc Testing tma_heavy_operations Testing tma_light_operations Testing tma_info_core_core_clks Testing tma_info_system_smt_2t_utilization Testing tma_info_thread_slots_utilization Testing UNCORE_FREQ [Skipped UNCORE_FREQ] Not supported events Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop': <not supported> UNC_CLOCK.SOCKET:u 1,015,993,466 duration_time 1.015949387 seconds time elapsed 1.007676000 seconds user 0.008029000 seconds sys Testing tma_info_system_socket_clks [Failed tma_info_system_socket_clks] Metric contains missing events Error: No supported events found. Invalid event (UNC_CLOCK.SOCKET:u) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'. Testing tma_info_inst_mix_instructions Testing tma_info_system_cpus_utilized Testing tma_info_system_mux Testing tma_info_system_time Testing tma_info_thread_slots Testing tma_few_uops_instructions Testing tma_4k_aliasing Testing tma_cisc Testing tma_fp_divider Testing tma_int_divider Testing tma_slow_pause Testing tma_split_loads Testing tma_split_stores Testing tma_store_fwd_blk Testing tma_alu_op_utilization Testing tma_load_op_utilization Testing tma_mixing_vectors Testing tma_store_op_utilization Testing tma_port_1 Testing tma_port_5 Testing tma_port_6 Testing smi_cycles [Skipped smi_cycles] Not supported events Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop': <not supported> msr/smi/u <not supported> msr/aperf/u 3,965,789,327 cycles:u 1.012779591 seconds time elapsed 1.004579000 seconds user 0.007972000 seconds sys Testing smi_num [Failed smi_num] Metric contains missing events Error: No supported events found. Invalid event (msr/smi/u) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'. Testing tsx_aborted_cycles Testing tsx_cycles_per_elision Testing tsx_cycles_per_transaction Testing tsx_transactional_cycles ---- end(-1) ---- 110: perf all metrics test : FAILED! Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf test: Use shelldir to refer perf source locationNamhyung Kim1-1/+1
It uses tools/perf/include which assumes it's running from the root of the linux kernel source tree. But you can run perf from other places like tools/perf, then the include path won't match. We can use the shelldir variable to locate the test script in the tree. $ cd tools/perf $ ./perf test dlfilter 63: dlfilter C API : Ok 101: perf script --dlfilter tests : Ok Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf test: Skip dlfilter test for build failuresNamhyung Kim1-4/+4
For some reason, it may fail to build the dlfilter. Let's skip the test as it's not an error in the perf. This can happen when you run the perf test without source code or in a different directory. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf inject: Keep build-ID data if no option is usedNamhyung Kim1-2/+3
The keep_feat() determines which header features will be kept or discarded. Usually 'perf inject' will add build-IDs based on -b, -B or other related options. But it lose build-ID when none of those options are used. This is meaningful only when --buildid-mmap is not used. The following example shows the impact of this change. $ perf record --no-buildid-mmap true [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.037 MB perf.data (5 samples) ] $ perf inject -i perf.data -o perf.data.inject $ perf buildid-list -i perf.data 08cccc2a9388d5247ccb3e864f3063b975b0a15d /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 fd5c4d5673256cd6bda51725dba048dabb0f854e [kernel.kallsyms] 97a36ce1140071be5c36b147fa0bed173e05a602 [vdso] $ perf buildid-list -i perf.data.inject 97a36ce1140071be5c36b147fa0bed173e05a602 [vdso] With this change, perf.data.inject would show the same list (of course, you need to run perf inject again). Reported-by: Gabriel Marin <gmx@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf util: Remove SHA-1 codeEric Biggers4-153/+0
Now that the SHA-1 code is no longer used, remove it. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Tested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@sourceware.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Pablo Galindo <pablogsal@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf genelf: Switch from SHA-1 to BLAKE2s for build ID generationEric Biggers1-30/+28
Recent patches [1] [2] added an implementation of SHA-1 to perf and made it be used for build ID generation. I had understood the choice of SHA-1, which is a legacy algorithm, to be for backwards compatibility. It turns out, though, that there's no backwards compatibility requirement here other than the size of the build ID field, which is fixed at 20 bytes. Not only did the hash algorithm already change (from MD5 to SHA-1), but the inputs to the hash changed too: from 'load_addr || code' to just 'code', and now again to 'code || symtab || strsym' [3]. Different linkers generate different build IDs, with the LLVM linker using BLAKE3 hashes for example [4]. Therefore, we might as well switch to a more modern algorithm. Let's go with BLAKE2s. It's faster than SHA-1, isn't cryptographically broken, is easier to implement than BLAKE3, and the kernel's implementation in lib/crypto/blake2s.c is easily borrowed. It also natively supports variable-length hashes, so it can directly produce the needed 20 bytes. Also make the following additional improvements: - Hash the three inputs incrementally, so they don't all have to be concatenated into one buffer. - Add tag/length prefixes to each of the three inputs, so that distinct input tuples reliably result in distinct hashes. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20250521225307.743726-1-yuzhuo@google.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20250625202311.23244-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20251125080748.461014-1-namhyung@kernel.org/ [4] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/d3e5b6f7539b86995aef6e2075c1edb3059385ce Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Tested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@sourceware.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Pablo Galindo <pablogsal@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf util: Add BLAKE2s supportEric Biggers4-1/+302
Add BLAKE2s support to the perf utility library. The code is borrowed from the kernel. This will replace the use of SHA-1 in genelf.c. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Tested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@sourceware.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Pablo Galindo <pablogsal@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13libsubcmd: Fix null intersection case in exclude_cmds()Sri Jayaramappa1-4/+6
When there is no exclusion occurring from the cmds list - for example - cmds contains ["read-vdso32"] and excludes contains ["archive"] - the main loop completes with ci == cj == 0. In the original code the loop processing the remaining elements in the list was conditional: if (ci != cj) { ...} So we end up in the assertion loop since ci < cmds->cnt and we incorrectly try to assert the list elements to be NULL and fail with the following error help.c:104: exclude_cmds: Assertion `cmds->names[ci] == NULL' failed. Fix this by moving the if (ci != cj) check inside of a broader loop. If ci != cj, left shift the list elements, as before, and then unconditionally advance the ci and cj indicies which also covers the ci == cj case. Fixes: 1fdf938168c4d26f ("perf tools: Fix use-after-free in help_unknown_cmd()") Reviewed-by: Guilherme Amadio <amadio@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Sri Jayaramappa <sjayaram@akamai.com> Tested-by: Guilherme Amadio <amadio@gentoo.org> Tested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Joshua Hunt <johunt@akamai.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251202213632.2873731-1-sjayaram@akamai.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf test: Test addr2line unwinding works with inline functionsIan Rogers1-0/+47
Add a test that seeks to see inline functions correctly displayed in 'perf script' from the inlineloop workload. Committer testing: # perf test 'addr2line inline unwinding' 76: test addr2line inline unwinding : Ok # perf test -vv 'addr2line inline unwinding' 76: test addr2line inline unwinding: --- start --- test child forked, pid 1508628 Inline unwinding verification test [ perf record: Woken up 129 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 32.282 MB /tmp/perf-test-inline-addr2line.L4Sz8QtADJ/perf.data (4014 samples) ] Inline unwinding verification test [Success] ---- end(0) ---- 76: test addr2line inline unwinding : Ok # Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf callchain: Fix srcline printing with inlinesIan Rogers1-2/+6
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 <james.clark@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-13perf srcline: Add configuration support for the addr2line styleIan Rogers5-11/+113
Allow the addr2line style to be specified on the `perf report` command line or in the .perfconfig file. Committer testing: The methods: # perf probe -x ~/bin/perf -F *__addr2line cmd__addr2line libbfd__addr2line libdw__addr2line llvm__addr2line # So if we configure one of them, say 'addr2line': # perf config addr2line.style=addr2line # perf config addr2line.style addr2line.style=addr2line # And have probes on all of them: # perf probe -x ~/bin/perf *__addr2line Added new events: probe_perf:cmd__addr2line (on *__addr2line in /home/acme/bin/perf) probe_perf:llvm__addr2line (on *__addr2line in /home/acme/bin/perf) probe_perf:libbfd__addr2line (on *__addr2line in /home/acme/bin/perf) probe_perf:libdw__addr2line (on *__addr2line in /home/acme/bin/perf) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe_perf:libdw__addr2line -aR sleep 1 # Only the selected method should be used: # perf stat -e probe_perf:*_addr2line perf report -f --dso perf --stdio -s srcfile,srcline # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 4K of event 'cpu/cycles/Pu' # Event count (approx.): 5535180842 # # Overhead Source File Source:Line # ........ ............ ............... # 99.04% inlineloop.c inlineloop.c:21 0.46% inlineloop.c inlineloop.c:20 # # (Tip: For hierarchical output, try: perf report --hierarchy) # Performance counter stats for 'perf report -f --dso perf --stdio -s srcfile,srcline': 44 probe_perf:cmd__addr2line 0 probe_perf:llvm__addr2line 0 probe_perf:libbfd__addr2line 0 probe_perf:libdw__addr2line 0.035915611 seconds time elapsed 0.028008000 seconds user 0.009051000 seconds sys # I checked and that is the case for the other methods. Also when using: # perf config addr2line.style=libdw,llvm Performance counter stats for 'perf report -f --dso perf --stdio -s srcfile,srcline': 0 probe_perf:cmd__addr2line 23 probe_perf:llvm__addr2line 0 probe_perf:libbfd__addr2line 44 probe_perf:libdw__addr2line Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-12perf addr2line.c: Rename a2l_style to cmd_a2l_styleIan Rogers1-10/+10
The a2l_style is only relevant to the command line version, so rename to make this clearer. Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-12perf addr2line: Add a libdw implementationIan Rogers7-0/+252
Add an implementation of addr2line that uses libdw. Other addr2line implementations are slow, particularly in the case of forking addr2line. Add an implementation that caches the libdw information in the dso and uses it to find the file and line number information. Inline information is supported but because cu_walk_functions_at visits the leaf function last add a inline_list__append_tail to reverse the lists order. Committer testing: # perf probe -x ~/bin/perf libdw__addr2line Added new event: probe_perf:libdw_addr2line (on libdw__addr2line in /home/acme/bin/perf) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe_perf:libdw_addr2line -aR sleep 1 # # perf stat -e probe_perf:libdw_addr2line perf report -f --dso perf --stdio -s srcfile,srcline # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 4K of event 'cpu/cycles/Pu' # Event count (approx.): 5535180842 # # Overhead Source File Source:Line # ........ ............ ............... # 99.04% inlineloop.c inlineloop.c:21 0.46% inlineloop.c inlineloop.c:20 # # (Tip: For tracepoint events, try: perf report -s trace_fields) # Performance counter stats for 'perf report -f --dso perf --stdio -s srcfile,srcline': 44 probe_perf:libdw_addr2line 0.037260744 seconds time elapsed 0.025299000 seconds user 0.011918000 seconds sys # Adding probes to the other addr2line implementations (llvm__addr2line, libbfd__addr2line and cmd__addr2line) I noticed some fallbacks to the llvm one: Performance counter stats for 'perf report -f --dso perf --stdio -s srcfile,srcline': 44 probe_perf:libdw_addr2line 23 probe_perf:llvm_addr2line 0 probe_perf:libbfd_addr2line 0 probe_perf:cmd_addr2line Something to investigate further, but at least we don't fallback to the cmd based one :-) Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-12perf test workload: Add inlineloop test workloadIan Rogers4-0/+56
The purpose of this workload is to gather samples in an inlined function. This can be used to test whether inlined addr2line works correctly. Committer testing: $ perf record perf test -w inlineloop 1 [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.161 MB perf.data (4005 samples) ] $ perf report --stdio --dso perf -s srcfile,srcline # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 4K of event 'cpu/cycles/Pu' # Event count (approx.): 5535180842 # # Overhead Source File Source:Line # ........ ............ ............... # 99.04% inlineloop.c inlineloop.c:21 0.46% inlineloop.c inlineloop.c:20 # $ Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-12perf unwind-libdw: Fix invalid reference countsIan Rogers1-2/+5
The addition of addr_location__exit() causes use-after put on the maps and map references in the unwind info. Add the gets and then add the map_symbol__exit() calls. Fixes: 0dd5041c9a0eaf8c ("perf addr_location: Add init/exit/copy functions") Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-12perf test subcmd help: Add exclude disjoint subcmd namesIan Rogers1-0/+26
The test is based on an error/fix posted to linux-perf-users. Reported-by: Sri Jayaramappa <sjayaram@akamai.com> Reviewed-by: Sri Jayaramappa <sjayaram@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Guilherme Amadio <amadio@gentoo.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20251202213632.2873731-1-sjayaram@akamai.com/ Closes: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20251202213632.2873731-1-sjayaram@akamai.com/__;!!GjvTz_vk!XehekKNUE4Ib_tvqIH6PMIIhly4X3BZ-Y40RC1HKMQ-6OdYEFvUPQhyWv_gk9vsRRN4_RcOLS2Bh0CQ$ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-12perf stat display: Make %f precision consistentIan Rogers1-21/+5
Commit bc22de9bcdb22491 ("perf stat: Display time in precision based on std deviation") added multirun workload elapsed time. There was an effort to make the precision in the output most useful for the user, however, when gathering over runs it means the formatting varies. This change just makes the output format fixed. Before: ``` $ while :; do perf stat --null --repeat 3 sleep 0.1 2>&1 | grep elapsed; done 0.101140 +- 0.000149 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.15% ) 0.1011396 +- 0.0000218 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.02% ) 0.101331 +- 0.000124 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.12% ) ^C $ while :; do perf stat --null --repeat 3 sleep 1 2>&1 | grep elapsed; done 1.001317 +- 0.000146 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.01% ) 1.001377 +- 0.000172 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.02% ) 1.00253 +- 0.00131 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.13% ) ``` After: ``` $ while :; do perf stat --null --repeat 3 sleep 0.1 2>&1 | grep elapsed; done 0.101406408 +- 0.000064778 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.06% ) 0.101367315 +- 0.000027253 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.03% ) 0.101434164 +- 0.000084750 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.08% ) ^C $ while :; do perf stat --null --repeat 3 sleep 1 2>&1 | grep elapsed; done 1.001525467 +- 0.000051703 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.01% ) 1.001375093 +- 0.000116200 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.01% ) 1.001141025 +- 0.000046361 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.00% ) ``` Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aTQRgAOpKyI53TEq@gmail.com/ Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-12perf build: Raise minimum shellcheck version to 0.7.2Nicolas Schier1-3/+4
Raise the minimum shellcheck version for perf builds to 0.7.2, so that systems with shellcheck versions below 0.7.2 will automatically skip the shell script checking, even if NO_SHELLCHECK is unset. Since commit 241f21be7d0fdf3c ("perf test perftool_testsuite: Use absolute paths"), shellcheck versions before 0.7.2 break the perf build with several SC1090 [2] warnings due to its too strict dynamic source handling [1], e.g.: In tests/shell/base_probe/test_line_semantics.sh line 20: . "$DIR_PATH/../common/init.sh" ^---------------------------^ SC1090: Can't follow non-constant source. Use a directive to specify location. Fixes: 241f21be7d0fdf3c ("perf test perftool_testsuite: Use absolute paths") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jakub Brnak <jbrnak@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com> Cc: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Philipp Hahn <p.hahn@avm.de> Cc: Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com> Link: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues/1998 # [1] Link: https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC1090 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-12perf test stat tests: Fix for virtualized machinesThomas Richter1-1/+1
On s390 'perf test's 'perf stat tests', subtest test_hybrid fails for z/VM systems. The root cause is this statement: $(perf stat -a -- sleep 0.1 2>&1 |\ grep -E "/cpu-cycles/[uH]*| cpu-cycles[:uH]* -c) The 'perf stat' output on a s390 z/VM system is # perf stat -a -- sleep 0.1 2>&1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 56 context-switches # 46.3 cs/sec cs_per_second 1,210.41 msec cpu-clock # 11.9 CPUs CPUs_utilized 12 cpu-migrations # 9.9 migrations/sec ... 81 page-faults # 66.9 faults/sec ... 0.100891009 seconds time elapsed The grep command does not match any single line and exits with error code 1. As the bash script is executed with 'set -e', it aborts with the first error code being non-zero. Fix this and use 'wc -l' to count matching lines instead of 'grep ... -c'. Output before: # perf test 102 102: perf stat tests : FAILED! # Output after: # perf test 102 102: perf stat tests : Ok # Fixes: bb6e7cb11d97ce19 ("perf tools: Add fallback for exclude_guest") Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com> Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-07perf data: Fix coding styleDerek Foreman2-9/+6
Adjust some oddly indented fprintf() calls. Signed-off-by: Derek Foreman <derek.foreman@collabora.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-07perf data: Allow filtering conversion by time rangeDerek Foreman5-0/+96
This adds a feature to allow restricting the range of converted samples with a range string like perf-script and perf-report --time. Committer testing: Put a probe on the ICMP receive path handling broadcast packets: # perf probe icmp_rcv:64 Added new event: probe:icmp_rcv_L64 (on icmp_rcv:64) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:icmp_rcv_L64 -aR sleep 1 # perf record -e probe:icmp_rcv_L64 ping -c 10 -b 127.255.255.255 WARNING: pinging broadcast address PING 127.255.255.255 (127.255.255.255) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- 127.255.255.255 ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 9217ms [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.034 MB perf.data (10 samples) ] # perf script ping 52785 [009] 5847.300394: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) ping 52785 [009] 5848.325018: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) ping 52785 [009] 5849.349007: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) ping 52785 [009] 5850.372979: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) ping 52785 [009] 5851.396988: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) ping 52785 [009] 5852.420954: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) ping 52785 [009] 5853.444934: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) ping 52785 [009] 5854.468926: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) ping 52785 [009] 5855.492914: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) ping 52785 [009] 5856.516883: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) # Now get some slices using perf script: # perf script --time 40% ping 52785 [009] 5847.300394: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) ping 52785 [009] 5848.325018: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) ping 52785 [009] 5849.349007: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) ping 52785 [009] 5850.372979: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) # perf script --time 40%-60% ping 52785 [009] 5851.396988: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) ping 52785 [009] 5852.420954: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e) # And finally use this new feature: # perf data convert --to-json out.json --time 0%-10% [ perf data convert: Converted 'perf.data' into JSON data 'out.json' ] [ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 0.001 MB (1 samples) ] [ perf data convert: Skipped 9 samples ] # cat out.json { "linux-perf-json-version": 1, "headers": { "header-version": 1, "captured-on": "2026-01-06T22:26:40Z", "data-offset": 520, "data-size": 34648, "feat-offset": 35168, "hostname": "number", "os-release": "6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64", "arch": "x86_64", "cpu-desc": "AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core Processor", "cpuid": "AuthenticAMD,26,68,0", "nrcpus-online": 32, "nrcpus-avail": 32, "perf-version": "6.19.rc4.gf4c270685d3d", "cmdline": [ "/home/acme/bin/perf" ] }, "samples": [ { "timestamp": 5847300394661, "pid": 52785, "tid": 52785, "cpu": 9, "comm": "ping", "callchain": [ { "ip": "0xffffffffaadb337f", "symbol": "icmp_rcv", "dso": "[kernel.kallsyms]" } ], "__probe_ip": "ffffffffaadb337e" } ] } # Signed-off-by: Derek Foreman <derek.foreman@collabora.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-07perf build: Skip nondistro build test if libbfd is oldJames Clark1-0/+5
Non distro builds now require a new version of libbfd, so skip the test if the library is too old. The grep test isn't a strong as the feature test in test-libbfd-threadsafe.c, but there seems to be precedent for feature testing this way here and it's good enough for the build-test rule. If the function exists but returns an error it will be picked up by the feature test when attempting the build. Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-07perf build: Feature test for libbfd thread safety APIJames Clark4-0/+28
The non-distro build requires libbfd 2.42 since commit b72b8132d8fd ("perf libbfd: Ensure libbfd is initialized prior to use"). Add a feature test so that it's obvious why the build fails if this criteria isn't met. Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-07perf build: Remove unused libbfd-buildid feature testJames Clark4-20/+0
HAVE_LIBBFD_BUILDID_SUPPORT isn't used in the codebase so remove the feature test that sets it. Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-07perf build: Do all non-distro feature checks in one goJames Clark1-20/+12
None of the if statements or variable assignments in the non-distro block actually affect the feature checks. Just do them all in one place so the flow isn't obscured. Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-07perf build: Remove ↵Roberto Sassu1-9/+3
FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-{four-args,init-styled} setting As the building mechanism is now able to retry detection with different combinations of linking flags, setting FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-four-args and FEATURE_CHECK_LDFLAGS-disassembler-init-styled is not necessary anymore, so remove it. James Clark notes: Use the same technique to find the set of bfd-related libraries to link as in: 3308ffc5016e6136 ("tools, build: Retry detection of bfd-related features") Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-01-07perf test java symbol: Additional libperf-jvmti.so path checkIan Rogers1-0/+4
If perf is built into an output directory then so is libperf-jvmti.so. If `perf test` is run from that directory then PWD needn't also be that directory meaning libperf-jvmti.so won't be found and the test skipped. Add an additional check for libperf-jvmti.so in the same directory as the perf binary for this case, this avoids the test skipping. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>