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

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"Build-ID processing goodies:

Build-IDs

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

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 <FILE> 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
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perf stat: Move metric list from config to evlist

The rblist of metric_event that then have a list of associated
metric_expr is moved out of the stat_config and into the evlist. This
is done as part

perf stat: Move metric list from config to evlist

The rblist of metric_event that then have a list of associated
metric_expr is moved out of the stat_config and into the evlist. This
is done as part of refactoring things for python, having the state
split in two places complicates that implementation. The evlist is
doing the harder work of enabling and disabling events, the metrics
are needed to compute a value and it doesn't seem unreasonable to hang
them from the evlist.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250710235126.1086011-7-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.11 merge window.

Merge topic branches 'clkdev' and 'fixes' into for-linus

Merge tag 'v6.9' into next

Sync up with the mainline to bring in the new cleanup API.

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Some display refactoring patches are needed in order to allow conflict-
less merging.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging drm-next in order to get up-to-date and in particular
to access commit 9ca5facd0400f610f3f7f71aeb7fc0b949a48c67.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <tho

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging drm-next in order to get up-to-date and in particular
to access commit 9ca5facd0400f610f3f7f71aeb7fc0b949a48c67.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>

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Merge tag 'phy_dp_modes_6.10' into msm-next-lumag

Merge DisplayPort subnode API in order to allow DisplayPort driver to
configure the PHYs either to the DP or eDP mode, depending on hardware
configu

Merge tag 'phy_dp_modes_6.10' into msm-next-lumag

Merge DisplayPort subnode API in order to allow DisplayPort driver to
configure the PHYs either to the DP or eDP mode, depending on hardware
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>

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Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.9-rc2' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.9

A relatively large set of fixes here, the biggest piece of it is a

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.9-rc2' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.9

A relatively large set of fixes here, the biggest piece of it is a
series correcting some problems with the delay reporting for Intel SOF
cards but there's a bunch of other things. Everything here is driver
specific except for a fix in the core for an issue with sign extension
handling volume controls.

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catching up on 6.9-rc2

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get v6.9-rc2 changes into drm-misc-next.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge branch 'topic/sound-devel-6.10' into for-next

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Backmerging to get drm-misc-fixes to the state of v6.9-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge tag 'v6.9-rc1' into sched/core, to pick up fixes and to refresh the branch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'master' into mm-stable

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.9-2024-03-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"perf stat:

- Support new 'cluster' aggreg

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.9-2024-03-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"perf stat:

- Support new 'cluster' aggregation mode for shared resources
depending on the hardware configuration:

$ sudo perf stat -a --per-cluster -e cycles,instructions sleep 1

Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

S0-D0-CLS0 2 85,051,822 cycles
S0-D0-CLS0 2 73,909,908 instructions # 0.87 insn per cycle
S0-D0-CLS2 2 93,365,918 cycles
S0-D0-CLS2 2 83,006,158 instructions # 0.89 insn per cycle
S0-D0-CLS4 2 104,157,523 cycles
S0-D0-CLS4 2 53,234,396 instructions # 0.51 insn per cycle
S0-D0-CLS6 2 65,891,079 cycles
S0-D0-CLS6 2 41,478,273 instructions # 0.63 insn per cycle

1.002407989 seconds time elapsed

- Various fixes and cleanups for event metrics including NaN handling

perf script:

- Use libcapstone if available to disassemble the instructions. This
enables 'perf script -F disasm' and 'perf script --insn-trace=disasm'
(for Intel-PT):

$ perf script -F event,ip,disasm
cycles:P: ffffffffa988d428 wrmsr
cycles:P: ffffffffa9839d25 movq %rax, %r14
cycles:P: ffffffffa9cdcaf0 endbr64
cycles:P: ffffffffa988d428 wrmsr
cycles:P: ffffffffa988d428 wrmsr
cycles:P: ffffffffaa401f86 iretq
cycles:P: ffffffffa99c4de5 movq 0x30(%rcx), %r8
cycles:P: ffffffffa988d428 wrmsr
cycles:P: ffffffffaa401f86 iretq
cycles:P: ffffffffa9907983 movl 0x68(%rbx), %eax
cycles:P: ffffffffa988d428 wrmsr

- Expose sample ID / stream ID to python scripts

perf test:

- Add more perf test cases from Redhat internal test suites. This
time it adds the base infra and a few perf probe tests. More to
come. :)

- Add 'perf test -p' for parallel execution and fix some issues found
by the parallel test

- Support symbol test to print symbols in given (active) module:

$ perf test -F -v Symbols --dso /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko
--- start ---
Testing /lib/modules/6.5.13-1rodete2-amd64/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko
Overlapping symbols:
7a990-7a9a0 l __pfx_ext4_exit_fs
7a990-7a9a0 g __pfx_cleanup_module
Overlapping symbols:
7a9a0-7aa1c l ext4_exit_fs
7a9a0-7aa1c g cleanup_module
...

JSON metric updates:

- A new round of Intel metric updates

- Support Power11 PVR (compatible to Power10)

- Fix cache latency events on Zen 4 to set SliceId properly

Internal:

- Fix reference counting for 'map' data structure, tireless work from
Ian!

- More memory optimization for struct thread and annotate histogram.
Now, 'perf report' (TUI) and 'perf annotate' should be much
lighter-weight in terms of memory footprint

- Support cross-arch perf register access. Clean up the build
configuration so that it can detect arch-register support at
runtime. This can allow to parse register data in sample which was
recorded in a different arch

Others:

- Sync task state in 'perf sched' to kernel using trace event fields.
The task states have been changed so tools cannot assume a fixed
encoding

- Clean up 'perf mem' to generalize the arch-specific events

- Add support for local and global variables to data type profiling.
This would increase the success rate of type resolution with DWARF

- Add short option -H for --hierarchy in 'perf report' and 'perf top'"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.9-2024-03-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (154 commits)
perf annotate: Add comments in the data structures
perf annotate: Remove sym_hist.addr[] array
perf annotate: Calculate instruction overhead using hashmap
perf annotate: Add a hashmap for symbol histogram
perf threads: Reduce table size from 256 to 8
perf threads: Switch from rbtree to hashmap
perf threads: Move threads to its own files
perf machine: Move machine's threads into its own abstraction
perf machine: Move fprintf to for_each loop and a callback
perf trace: Ignore thread hashing in summary
perf report: Sort child tasks by tid
perf vendor events amd: Fix Zen 4 cache latency events
perf version: Display availability of OpenCSD support
perf vendor events intel: Add umasks/occ_sel to PCU events.
perf map: Fix map reference count issues
libperf evlist: Avoid out-of-bounds access
perf lock contention: Account contending locks too
perf metrics: Fix segv for metrics with no events
perf metrics: Fix metric matching
perf pmu: Fix a potential memory leak in perf_pmu__lookup()
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perf parse-events: Print all errors

Prior to this patch the first and the last error encountered during
parsing are printed. To see other errors verbose needs
enabling. Unfortunately this can drop u

perf parse-events: Print all errors

Prior to this patch the first and the last error encountered during
parsing are printed. To see other errors verbose needs
enabling. Unfortunately this can drop useful errors, in particular on
terms. This patch changes the errors so that instead of the first and
last all errors are recorded and printed, the underlying data
structure is changed to a list.

Before:
```
$ perf stat -e 'slots/edge=2/' true
event syntax error: 'slots/edge=2/'
\___ Bad event or PMU

Unable to find PMU or event on a PMU of 'slots'

Initial error:
event syntax error: 'slots/edge=2/'
\___ Cannot find PMU `slots'. Missing kernel support?
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>]

-e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
```

After:
```
$ perf stat -e 'slots/edge=2/' true
event syntax error: 'slots/edge=2/'
\___ Bad event or PMU

Unable to find PMU or event on a PMU of 'slots'

event syntax error: 'slots/edge=2/'
\___ value too big for format (edge), maximum is 1

event syntax error: 'slots/edge=2/'
\___ Cannot find PMU `slots'. Missing kernel support?
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>]

-e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
```

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: tchen168@asu.edu
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131134940.593788-3-irogers@google.com

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.11 merge window.

Merge topic branches 'clkdev' and 'fixes' into for-linus

Merge tag 'v6.9' into next

Sync up with the mainline to bring in the new cleanup API.

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Some display refactoring patches are needed in order to allow conflict-
less merging.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging drm-next in order to get up-to-date and in particular
to access commit 9ca5facd0400f610f3f7f71aeb7fc0b949a48c67.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <tho

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging drm-next in order to get up-to-date and in particular
to access commit 9ca5facd0400f610f3f7f71aeb7fc0b949a48c67.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>

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Merge tag 'phy_dp_modes_6.10' into msm-next-lumag

Merge DisplayPort subnode API in order to allow DisplayPort driver to
configure the PHYs either to the DP or eDP mode, depending on hardware
configu

Merge tag 'phy_dp_modes_6.10' into msm-next-lumag

Merge DisplayPort subnode API in order to allow DisplayPort driver to
configure the PHYs either to the DP or eDP mode, depending on hardware
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>

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Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.9-rc2' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.9

A relatively large set of fixes here, the biggest piece of it is a

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.9-rc2' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.9

A relatively large set of fixes here, the biggest piece of it is a
series correcting some problems with the delay reporting for Intel SOF
cards but there's a bunch of other things. Everything here is driver
specific except for a fix in the core for an issue with sign extension
handling volume controls.

show more ...