kernel/tools/perf/util/intel-bts.c, branch linux-rolling-stable

perf auxtrace: Add auxtrace_synth_id_range_start() helper

2025-10-26T00:44:57Z

To avoid hardcoding the offset value for synthetic event IDs in multiple auxtrace modules (arm-spe, cs-etm, intel-pt, etc.), and to improve code reusability, this patch unifies the handling of the ID offset via a dedicated helper function. Signed-off-by: tanze Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Tested-by: Leo Yan Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf sample: Make user_regs and intr_regs optional

2025-02-13T04:06:11Z

The struct dump_regs contains 512 bytes of cache_regs, meaning the two values in perf_sample contribute 1088 bytes of its total 1384 bytes size. Initializing this much memory has a cost reported by Tavian Barnes as about 2.5% when running `perf script --itrace=i0`: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d841b97b3ad2ca8bcab07e4293375fb7c32dfce7.1736618095.git.tavianator@tavianator.com/ Adrian Hunter replied that the zero initialization was necessary and couldn't simply be removed. This patch aims to strike a middle ground of still zeroing the perf_sample, but removing 79% of its size by make user_regs and intr_regs optional pointers to zalloc-ed memory. To support the allocation accessors are created for user_regs and intr_regs. To support correct cleanup perf_sample__init and perf_sample__exit functions are created and added throughout the code base. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250113194345.1537821-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tools: Fix typos Muliplier -> Multiplier

2024-11-13T19:27:35Z

There are some typos in fprintf messages. Fix them via codespell. Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Andrew Kreimer Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241108134728.25515-1-algonell@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf color: Add printf format checking and resolve issues

2024-10-17T19:44:26Z

Add printf format checking to vararg printf routines in color.h. Resolve build errors/bugs that are found through this checking. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Yicong Yang Cc: Weilin Wang Cc: Will Deacon Cc: James Clark Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Sumanth Korikkar Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Tim Chen Cc: John Garry Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241017175356.783793-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tool: Constify tool pointers

2024-08-12T21:05:14Z

The tool pointer (to a struct largely of function pointers) is passed around but is unchanged except at initialization. Change parameter and variable types to be const to lower the possibilities of what could happen with a tool. Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Adrian Hunter Tested-by: Leo Yan Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ilkka Koskinen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Nick Terrell Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Song Liu Cc: Sun Haiyong Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yanteng Si Cc: Yicong Yang Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240812204720.631678-4-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf auxtrace: Remove dummy tools

2024-08-12T21:04:36Z

Add perf_session__deliver_synth_attr_event that synthesizes a perf_record_header_attr event with one id. Remove use of perf_event__synthesize_attr that necessitates the use of the dummy tool in order to pass the session. Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Adrian Hunter Tested-by: Leo Yan Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ilkka Koskinen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Nick Terrell Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Song Liu Cc: Sun Haiyong Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yanteng Si Cc: Yicong Yang Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240812204720.631678-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf thread: Add accessor functions for thread

2023-06-12T18:57:53Z

Using accessors will make it easier to add reference count checking in later patches. Committer notes: thread->nsinfo wasn't wrapped as it is used together with nsinfo__zput(), where does a trick to set the field with a refcount being dropped to NULL, and that doesn't work well with using thread__nsinfo(thread), that loses the &thread->nsinfo pointer. When refcount checking is added to 'struct thread', later in this series, nsinfo__zput(RC_CHK_ACCESS(thread)->nsinfo) will be used to check the thread pointer. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ali Saidi Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Brian Robbins Cc: Changbin Du Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Cc: Fangrui Song Cc: German Gomez Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ivan Babrou Cc: James Clark Cc: Jing Zhang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: K Prateek Nayak Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Naveen N. Rao Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Wenyu Liu Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Ye Xingchen Cc: Yuan Can Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230608232823.4027869-4-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use __BYTE_ORDER__

2021-11-07T15:27:38Z

Switch from the libc-defined __BYTE_ORDER to the compiler-defined __BYTE_ORDER__ in order to make endianness detection more robust, like it was done for libbpf. Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Vasily Gorbik Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211104132311.984703-1-iii@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Rename __perf_evsel__sample_size() to evselsample_size()

2020-05-05T19:35:30Z

As it is a 'struct evsel' related method, not part of tools/lib/perf/, aka libperf, to whom the perf_ prefix belongs. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf thread-stack: Add branch stack support

2020-05-05T19:35:29Z

Intel PT already has support for creating branch stacks for each context (per-cpu or per-thread). In the more common per-cpu case, the branch stack is not separated for different threads, instead being cleared in between each sample. That approach will not work very well for adding branch stacks to regular events. The branch stacks really need to be accumulated separately for each thread. As a start to accomplishing that, this patch adds support for putting branch stack support into the thread-stack. The advantages are: 1. the branches are accumulated separately for each thread 2. the branch stack is cleared only in between continuous traces This helps pave the way for adding branch stacks to regular events, not just synthesized events as at present. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200429150751.12570-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo