kernel/tools/perf/arch, branch linux-6.17.y

tools headers: Sync syscall tables with the kernel source

2025-08-18T20:49:25Z

To pick up the changes in this cset: be7efb2d20d67f33 fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls This addresses these perf build warnings: Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: diff -u tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h diff -u tools/scripts/syscall.tbl scripts/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/s390/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/arm/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/sh/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/sparc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/xtensa/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details. Cc: Arnd Bergmann CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf test: Fix a build error in x86 topdown test

2025-08-18T18:52:22Z

There's an environment that caused the following build error. Include "debug.h" (under util directory) to fix it. arch/x86/tests/topdown.c: In function 'event_cb': arch/x86/tests/topdown.c:53:25: error: implicit declaration of function 'pr_debug' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] 53 | pr_debug("Broken topdown information for '%s'\n", evsel__name(evsel)); | ^~~~~~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250815164122.289651-1-namhyung@kernel.org Fixes: 5b546de9cc177936 ("perf topdown: Use attribute to see an event is a topdown metic or slots") Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.17-2025-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

2025-08-01T23:55:47Z

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim: "Build-ID processing goodies: Build-IDs are content based hashes to link regions of memory to ELF files in post processing. They have been available in distros for quite a while: $ file /bin/bash /bin/bash: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=707a1c670cd72f8e55ffedfbe94ea98901b7ce3a, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped It is possible to ask the kernel to get it from mmap executable backing storage at time they are being put in place and send it as metadata at that moment to have in perf.data. Prefer that across the board to speed up 'record' time - it post processes the samples to find binaries touched by any samples and to save them with build-ID. It can skip reading build-ID in userspace if it comes from the kernel. perf record: * Make --buildid-mmap default. The kernel can generate MMAP2 events with a build-ID from ELF header. Use that by default instead of using inode and device ID to identify binaries. It also can be disabled with --no-buildid-mmap. * Use BPF for -u/--uid option to sample processes belong to a user. BPF can track user processes more accurately and the existing logic often fails to get the list of processes due to race with reading the /proc filesystem. * Generate PERF_RECORD_BPF_METADATA when it profiles BPF programs and they have variables starting with "bpf_metadata_". This will help to identify BPF objects used in the profile. This has been supported in bpftool for some time and allows the recording of metadata such as commit hashes, versions, etc, that now gets recorded in perf.data as well. * Collect list of DSOs touched in the sample callchains as well as in the sample itself. This would increase the processing time at the end of record, but can improve the data quality. perf stat: * Add a new 'drm' pseudo-PMU support like in 'hwmon'. It can collect DRM usage stats using fdinfo in /proc. On my Intel laptop, it shows like below: $ perf list drm ... drm: drm-active-stolen-system0 [Total memory active in one or more engines. Unit: drm_i915] drm-active-system0 [Total memory active in one or more engines. Unit: drm_i915] drm-engine-capacity-video [Engine capacity. Unit: drm_i915] drm-engine-copy [Utilization in ns. Unit: drm_i915] drm-engine-render [Utilization in ns. Unit: drm_i915] drm-engine-video [Utilization in ns. Unit: drm_i915] ... $ sudo perf stat -a -e drm-engine-render,drm-engine-video,drm-engine-capacity-video sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 48,137,316,988,873 ns drm-engine-render 34,452,696,746 ns drm-engine-video 20 capacity drm-engine-capacity-video 1.002086194 seconds time elapsed perf list * Add description for software events. The description is in JSON format and the event parser now can handle the software events like others (for example, it's case-insensitive and subject to wildcard matching). $ perf list software List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M): software: alignment-faults [Number of kernel handled memory alignment faults. Unit: software] bpf-output [An event used by BPF programs to write to the perf ring buffer. Unit: software] cgroup-switches [Number of context switches to a task in a different cgroup. Unit: software] context-switches [Number of context switches [This event is an alias of cs]. Unit: software] cpu-clock [Per-CPU high-resolution timer based event. Unit: software] cpu-migrations [Number of times a process has migrated to a new CPU [This event is an alias of migrations]. Unit: software] cs [Number of context switches [This event is an alias of context-switches]. Unit: software] dummy [A placeholder event that doesn't count anything. Unit: software] emulation-faults [Number of kernel handled unimplemented instruction faults handled through emulation. Unit: software] faults [Number of page faults [This event is an alias of page-faults]. Unit: software] major-faults [Number of major page faults. Major faults require I/O to handle. Unit: software] migrations [Number of times a process has migrated to a new CPU [This event is an alias of cpu-migrations]. Unit: software] minor-faults [Number of minor page faults. Minor faults don't require I/O to handle. Unit: software] page-faults [Number of page faults [This event is an alias of faults]. Unit: software] task-clock [Per-task high-resolution timer based event. Unit: software] perf ftrace: * Add -e/--events option to perf ftrace latency to measure latency between the two events instead of a function. $ sudo perf ftrace latency -ab -e i915_request_wait_begin,i915_request_wait_end --hide-empty -- sleep 1 # DURATION | COUNT | GRAPH | 256 - 512 us | 4 | ###### | 2 - 4 ms | 2 | ### | 4 - 8 ms | 12 | ################### | 8 - 16 ms | 10 | ################ | # statistics (in usec) total time: 194915 avg time: 6961 max time: 12855 min time: 373 count: 28 * Add new function graph tracer options (--graph-opts) to display more info like arguments and return value. They will be passed to the kernel ftrace directly. $ sudo perf ftrace -G vfs_write --graph-opts retval,retaddr # tracer: function_graph # # CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS # | | | | | | | ... 5) | mutex_unlock() { /* <-rb_simple_write+0xda/0x150 */ 5) 0.188 us | local_clock(); /* <-lock_release+0x2ad/0x440 ret=0x3bf2a3cf90e */ 5) | rt_mutex_slowunlock() { /* <-rb_simple_write+0xda/0x150 */ 5) | _raw_spin_lock_irqsave() { /* <-rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x4f/0x200 */ 5) 0.123 us | preempt_count_add(); /* <-_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x23/0x90 ret=0x0 */ 5) 0.128 us | local_clock(); /* <-__lock_acquire.isra.0+0x17a/0x740 ret=0x3bf2a3cfc8b */ 5) 0.086 us | do_raw_spin_trylock(); /* <-_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4a/0x90 ret=0x1 */ 5) 0.845 us | } /* _raw_spin_lock_irqsave ret=0x292 */ ... Misc: * Add perf archive --exclude-buildids option to skip some binaries. The format of the FILE should be same as an output of perf buildid-list. * Get rid of dependency of libcrypto. It was just to get SHA-1 hash so implement it directly like in the kernel. A side effect is that it needs -fno-strict-aliasing compiler option (again, like in the kernel). * Convert all shell script tests to use bash" * tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.17-2025-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (179 commits) perf record: Cache build-ID of hit DSOs only perf test: Ensure lock contention using pipe mode perf python: Stop using deprecated PyUnicode_AsString() perf list: Skip ABI PMUs when printing pmu values perf list: Remove tracepoint printing code perf tp_pmu: Add event APIs perf tp_pmu: Factor existing tracepoint logic to new file perf parse-events: Remove non-json software events perf jevents: Add common software event json perf tools: Remove libtraceevent in .gitignore perf test: Fix comment ordering perf sort: Use perf_env to set arch sort keys and header perf test: Move PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT parsing to common test perf sample: Remove arch notion of sample parsing perf env: Remove global perf_env perf trace: Avoid global perf_env with evsel__env perf auxtrace: Pass perf_env from session through to mmap read perf machine: Explicitly pass in host perf_env perf bench synthesize: Avoid use of global perf_env perf top: Make perf_env locally scoped ...

RISC-V: perf/kvm: Add reporting of interrupt events

2025-07-28T16:58:25Z

For `perf kvm stat` on the RISC-V, in order to avoid the occurrence of `UNKNOWN` event names, interrupts should be reported in addition to exceptions. testing without patch: Event name Samples Sample% Time(ns) --------------------------- -------- -------- ------------ STORE_GUEST_PAGE_FAULT 1496461 53.00% 889612544 UNKNOWN 887514 31.00% 272857968 LOAD_GUEST_PAGE_FAULT 305164 10.00% 189186331 VIRTUAL_INST_FAULT 70625 2.00% 134114260 SUPERVISOR_SYSCALL 32014 1.00% 58577110 INST_GUEST_PAGE_FAULT 1 0.00% 2545 testing with patch: Event name Samples Sample% Time(ns) --------------------------- -------- -------- ------------ IRQ_S_TIMER 211271 58.00% 738298680600 EXC_STORE_GUEST_PAGE_FAULT 111279 30.00% 130725914800 EXC_LOAD_GUEST_PAGE_FAULT 22039 6.00% 25441480600 EXC_VIRTUAL_INST_FAULT 8913 2.00% 21015381600 IRQ_VS_EXT 4748 1.00% 10155464300 IRQ_S_EXT 2802 0.00% 13288775800 IRQ_S_SOFT 1998 0.00% 4254129300 Signed-off-by: Quan Zhou Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9693132df4d0f857b8be3a75750c36b40213fcc0.1726211632.git.zhouquan@iscas.ac.cn Signed-off-by: Anup Patel

perf sort: Use perf_env to set arch sort keys and header

2025-07-25T17:37:58Z

Previously arch_support_sort_key and arch_perf_header_entry used a weak symbol to compile as appropriate for x86 and powerpc. A limitation to this is that the handling of a data file could vary in cross-platform development. Change to using the perf_env of the current session to determine the architecture kind and set the sort key and header entries as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-23-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf test: Move PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT parsing to common test

2025-07-25T17:37:58Z

test__x86_sample_parsing is identical to test__sample_parsing except it explicitly tested PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT. Now the parsing code is common move the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT to the common sample parsing test and remove the x86 version. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-22-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf sample: Remove arch notion of sample parsing

2025-07-25T17:37:58Z

By definition arch sample parsing and synthesis will inhibit certain kinds of cross-platform record then analysis (report, script, etc.). Remove arch_perf_parse_sample_weight and arch_perf_synthesize_sample_weight replacing with a common implementation. Combine perf_sample p_stage_cyc and retire_lat as weight3 to capture the differing uses regardless of compiled for architecture. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-21-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf parse-events: Fix missing slots for Intel topdown metric events

2025-07-24T20:41:35Z

Topdown metric events require grouping with a slots event. In perf metrics this is currently achieved by metrics adding an unnecessary "0 * tma_info_thread_slots". New TMA metrics trigger optimizations of the metric expression that removes the event and breaks the metric due to the missing but required event. Add a pass immediately before sorting and fixing parsed events, that insert a slots event if one is missing. Update test expectations to match this. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250719030517.1990983-15-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf topdown: Use attribute to see an event is a topdown metic or slots

2025-07-24T20:41:35Z

The string comparisons were overly broad and could fire for the incorrect PMU and events. Switch to using the config in the attribute then add a perf test to confirm the attribute config values match those of parsed events of that name and don't match others. This exposed matches for slots events that shouldn't have matched as the slots fixed counter event, such as topdown.slots_p. Fixes: fbc798316bef ("perf x86/topdown: Refine helper arch_is_topdown_metrics()") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250719030517.1990983-14-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf build: Specify shellcheck should use bash

2025-06-30T16:43:06Z

When someone has a global shellcheckrc file, for example at ~/.config/shellcheckrc, with the directive 'shell=sh', building perf will fail with many shellcheck errors like: In tests/shell/base_probe/test_adding_kernel.sh line 294: (( TEST_RESULT += $? )) ^---------------------^ SC3006 (warning): In POSIX sh, standalone ((..)) is undefined. For more information: https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC3006 -- In POSIX sh, standalone ((..)) is... make[5]: *** [tests/Build:91: tests/shell/base_probe/test_adding_kernel.sh.shellcheck_log] Error 1 Passing the '-s bash' option ensures that it runs correctly regardless of a developers global configuration. This patch adds '-s bash' and other options to the SHELLCHECK variable in Makefile.perf and makes use of the variable consistently. Signed-off-by: Collin Funk Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/63491dbc8439edf2e949d80e264b9d22332fea61.1751082075.git.collin.funk1@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim