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Ian Rogers
cf99cdf53e perf vendor events intel: Update icelakex events from 1.28 to 1.30
The updated events were published in:
dc6ffee20c

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:02:06 -08:00
Ian Rogers
1d341e543f perf vendor events intel: Update graniterapids events from 1.15 to 1.16
The updated events were published in:
b4acc3fd52

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:02:06 -08:00
Ian Rogers
5a341ccbdd perf vendor events intel: Update cascadelakex metric units
The updated metrics were published in:
2dce436130

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:02:06 -08:00
Ian Rogers
99eb7146cd perf vendor events intel: Update arrowlake events from 1.13 to 1.14
The updated events were published in:
588dd77675

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:02:06 -08:00
Ian Rogers
c914d68371 perf vendor events intel: Update alderlake events from 1.34 to 1.35
The updated events were published in:
c74f1cefa9

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:02:06 -08:00
Leo Yan
c4fe074b61 perf arm_spe: Add CPU variants supporting common data source packet
Add the following CPU variants to the list for data source decoding:

  - Cortex-A715 [1]
  - Cortex-A78C [2]
  - Cortex-X1 [3]
  - Cortex-X4 [4]
  - Neoverse V3 [5]

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/101590/0103/Statistical-Profiling-Extension-Support/Statistical-Profiling-Extension-data-source-packet
[2] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102226/0002/Debug-descriptions/Statistical-Profiling-Extension/implementation-defined-features-of-SPE
[3] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/101433/0102/Debug-descriptions/Statistical-Profiling-Extension/implementation-defined-features-of-SPE
[4] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102484/0003/Statistical-Profiling-Extension-support/Statistical-Profiling-Extension-data-source-packet
[5] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/107734/0002/Statistical-Profiling-Extension-support/Statistical-Profiling-Extension-data-source-packet

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:01:12 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
e28f834f57 perf auxtrace: Include sys/types.h for pid_t
In 754187ad73 ("perf build: Remove NO_AUXTRACE build option")
sys/types.h was removed, which broke the build in all Alpine Linux
releases, as musl libc has pid_t defined via sys/types.h, add it back.

Fixes: 754187ad73 ("perf build: Remove NO_AUXTRACE build option")
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:01:05 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
34e271ae55 perf test: Add kallsyms split test
Create a fake root directory for /proc/{version,modules,kallsyms} in
/tmp for testing.  The kallsyms has a bad symbol in the module and it
causes the main map splitted.  The test ensures it only has two maps -
kernel and the module and it finds the initial map after the module
without creating the split maps like [kernel].0 and so on.

  $ perf test -vv "split kallsyms"
   69: split kallsyms:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 1016196
  try to create fake root directory
  create kernel maps from the fake root directory
  maps__set_modules_path_dir: cannot open /tmp/perf-test.Zrv6Sy/lib/modules/X.Y.Z dir
  Problems setting modules path maps, continuing anyway...
  Failed to open /tmp/perf-test.Zrv6Sy/proc/kcore. Note /proc/kcore requires CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability to access.
  Using /tmp/perf-test.Zrv6Sy/proc/kallsyms for symbols
  kernel map loaded - check symbol and map
  ---- end(0) ----
   69: split kallsyms                                                  : Ok

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 21:59:15 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
4fba95fc38 perf tools: Use machine->root_dir to find /proc/kallsyms
This is for test functions to find the kallsyms correctly.  It can find
the machine from the kernel maps and use its root_dir.  This is helpful
to setup fake /proc directory for testing.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 21:59:14 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
295d8a03ca perf tools: Fallback to initial kernel map properly
In maps__split_kallsyms(), it assumes new kernel map when it finds a
symbol without module after any module and the initial kernel map has
some symbols.  Because it expects modules are out of the kernel map so
modules should not have symbols in the kernel map.

For example, the following memory map shows symbols and maps.  Any
symbols in the module 1 area will go to the module 1.  The main kernel
map starts at 0xffffffffbc200000.  But if any symbol has a module
between the symbols in that area, next symbols after 0xffffffffbd008000
will generate new kernel maps like [kernel].1.

   kernel address   |                     |
                    |                     |
 0xffffffffc0000000 |---------------------|
                    |     (symbols)       |
                    |        ...          |   <---  [kernel].N
 0xffffffffbc400000 |---------------------|
                    |     (symbols)       |
                    |      module 2       |   <---  bad?
 0xffffffffbc380000 |---------------------|
                    |        ...          |
                    |     (symbols)       |
                    |  [kernel.kallsyms]  |   <---  initial map
 0xffffffffbc200000 |---------------------|
                    |                     |
                    |                     |
 0xffffffffabcde000 |---------------------|
                    |     (symbols)       |
                    |      module 1       |
 0xffffffffabcd0000 |---------------------|

This is very fragile when the module has a symbol that falls into the
main kernel map for some reason.  My system has a livepatch module with
such symbols.  And it created a lot of new kernel maps after those
symbols.  But the symbol may have broken addresses and the later symbols
can still be found in the initial kernel map.

Let's check the symbol address in the initial map and use it if found.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 21:59:14 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
ad0b9c4865 perf tools: Fix split kallsyms DSO counting
It's counted twice as it's increased after calling maps__insert().  I
guess we want to increase it only after it's added properly.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Fixes: 2e538c4a18 ("perf tools: Improve kernel/modules symbol lookup")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 21:59:14 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
7da4d60db3 perf tools: Mark split kallsyms DSOs as loaded
The maps__split_kallsyms() will split symbols to module DSOs if it comes
from a module.  It also handled some unusual kernel symbols after modules
by creating new kernel maps like "[kernel].0".

But they are pseudo DSOs to have those unexpected symbols.  They should
not be considered as unloaded kernel DSOs.  Otherwise the dso__load()
for them will end up calling dso__load_kallsyms() and then
maps__split_kallsyms() again and again.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Fixes: 2e538c4a18 ("perf tools: Improve kernel/modules symbol lookup")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 21:59:14 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
405f5756bb perf tools: Flush remaining samples w/o deferred callchains
It's possible that some kernel samples don't have matching deferred
callchain records when the profiling session was ended before the
threads came back to userspace.  Let's flush the samples before
finish the session.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 21:59:14 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
9b4525fd08 perf tools: Merge deferred user callchains
Save samples with deferred callchains in a separate list and deliver
them after merging the user callchains.  If users don't want to merge
they can set tool->merge_deferred_callchains to false to prevent the
behavior.

With previous result, now perf script will show the merged callchains.

  $ perf script
  ...
  pwd    2312   121.163435:     249113 cpu/cycles/P:
          ffffffff845b78d8 __build_id_parse.isra.0+0x218 ([kernel.kallsyms])
          ffffffff83bb5bf6 perf_event_mmap+0x2e6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
          ffffffff83c31959 mprotect_fixup+0x1e9 ([kernel.kallsyms])
          ffffffff83c31dc5 do_mprotect_pkey+0x2b5 ([kernel.kallsyms])
          ffffffff83c3206f __x64_sys_mprotect+0x1f ([kernel.kallsyms])
          ffffffff845e6692 do_syscall_64+0x62 ([kernel.kallsyms])
          ffffffff8360012f entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76 ([kernel.kallsyms])
              7f18fe337fa7 mprotect+0x7 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
              7f18fe330e0f _dl_sysdep_start+0x7f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
              7f18fe331448 _dl_start_user+0x0 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
  ...

The old output can be get using --no-merge-callchain option.
Also perf report can get the user callchain entry at the end.

  $ perf report --no-children --stdio -q -S __build_id_parse.isra.0
  # symbol: __build_id_parse.isra.0
       8.40%  pwd      [kernel.kallsyms]
              |
              ---__build_id_parse.isra.0
                 perf_event_mmap
                 mprotect_fixup
                 do_mprotect_pkey
                 __x64_sys_mprotect
                 do_syscall_64
                 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
                 mprotect
                 _dl_sysdep_start
                 _dl_start_user

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 21:59:14 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
25a9dd56cf perf script: Display PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN_DEFERRED
Handle the deferred callchains in the script output.

  $ perf script
  ...
  pwd    2312   121.163435:     249113 cpu/cycles/P:
          ffffffff845b78d8 __build_id_parse.isra.0+0x218 ([kernel.kallsyms])
          ffffffff83bb5bf6 perf_event_mmap+0x2e6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
          ffffffff83c31959 mprotect_fixup+0x1e9 ([kernel.kallsyms])
          ffffffff83c31dc5 do_mprotect_pkey+0x2b5 ([kernel.kallsyms])
          ffffffff83c3206f __x64_sys_mprotect+0x1f ([kernel.kallsyms])
          ffffffff845e6692 do_syscall_64+0x62 ([kernel.kallsyms])
          ffffffff8360012f entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                 b00000006 (cookie) ([unknown])

  pwd    2312   121.163447: DEFERRED CALLCHAIN [cookie: b00000006]
              7f18fe337fa7 mprotect+0x7 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
              7f18fe330e0f _dl_sysdep_start+0x7f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
              7f18fe331448 _dl_start_user+0x0 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 21:59:14 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
27ddc1d7a6 perf record: Add --call-graph fp,defer option for deferred callchains
Add a new callchain record mode option for deferred callchains.  For now
it only works with FP (frame-pointer) mode.

And add the missing feature detection logic to clear the flag on old
kernels.

  $ perf record --call-graph fp,defer -vv true
  ...
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  perf_event_attr:
    type                             0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)
    size                             136
    config                           0 (PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES)
    { sample_period, sample_freq }   4000
    sample_type                      IP|TID|TIME|CALLCHAIN|PERIOD
    read_format                      ID|LOST
    disabled                         1
    inherit                          1
    mmap                             1
    comm                             1
    freq                             1
    enable_on_exec                   1
    task                             1
    sample_id_all                    1
    mmap2                            1
    comm_exec                        1
    ksymbol                          1
    bpf_event                        1
    defer_callchain                  1
    defer_output                     1
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  sys_perf_event_open: pid 162755  cpu 0  group_fd -1  flags 0x8
  sys_perf_event_open failed, error -22
  switching off deferred callchain support

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 21:59:13 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
f4e3381648 perf tools: Minimal DEFERRED_CALLCHAIN support
Add a new event type for deferred callchains and a new callback for the
struct perf_tool.  For now it doesn't actually handle the deferred
callchains but it just marks the sample if it has the PERF_CONTEXT_
USER_DEFFERED in the callchain array.

At least, perf report can dump the raw data with this change.  Actually
this requires the next commit to enable attr.defer_callchain, but if you
already have a data file, it'll show the following result.

  $ perf report -D
  ...
  0x2158@perf.data [0x40]: event: 22
  .
  . ... raw event: size 64 bytes
  .  0000:  16 00 00 00 02 00 40 00 06 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00  ......@.........
  .  0010:  03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a7 7f 33 fe 18 7f 00 00  ..........3.....
  .  0020:  0f 0e 33 fe 18 7f 00 00 48 14 33 fe 18 7f 00 00  ..3.....H.3.....
  .  0030:  08 09 00 00 08 09 00 00 e6 7a e7 35 1c 00 00 00  .........z.5....

  121163447014 0x2158 [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN_DEFERRED(IP, 0x2): 2312/2312: 0xb00000006
  ... FP chain: nr:3
  .....  0: 00007f18fe337fa7
  .....  1: 00007f18fe330e0f
  .....  2: 00007f18fe331448
  : unhandled!

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:13:32 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
22b0ceee1c tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/perf_event.h for deferred callchains
It needs to sync with the kernel to support user space changes for the
deferred callchains.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:13:32 -08:00
Ian Rogers
d9f2ce394c perf jevents: Skip optional metrics in metric group list
For metric groups, skip metrics in the list that are None. This allows
functions to better optionally return metrics.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:12:50 -08:00
Ian Rogers
a1d9bb1a04 perf jevents: Drop duplicate pending metrics
Drop adding a pending metric if there is an existing one. Ensure the
PMUs differ for hybrid systems.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:12:50 -08:00
Ian Rogers
3f31651a06 perf jevents: Move json encoding to its own functions
Have dedicated encode functions rather than having them embedded in
MetricGroup. This is to provide some uniformity in the Metric ToXXX
routines.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:12:50 -08:00
Ian Rogers
b90e94aed9 perf jevents: Add threshold expressions to Metric
Allow threshold expressions for metrics to be generated.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:12:50 -08:00
Ian Rogers
7d5b4061a8 perf jevents: Term list fix in event parsing
Fix events seemingly broken apart at a comma.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:12:50 -08:00
Ian Rogers
826650f76e perf jevents: Support parsing negative exponents
Support negative exponents when parsing from a json metric string by
making the numbers after the 'e' optional in the 'Event' insertion fix
up.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:12:49 -08:00
Ian Rogers
e90c66c37c perf jevents: Allow metric groups not to be named
It can be convenient to have unnamed metric groups for the sake of
organizing other metrics and metric groups. An unspecified name
shouldn't contribute to the MetricGroup json value, so don't record
it.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:12:49 -08:00
Ian Rogers
38d9d511ed perf jevents: Add descriptions to metricgroup abstraction
Add a function to recursively generate metric group descriptions.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:12:49 -08:00
Ian Rogers
e7b9e750b3 perf jevents: Update metric constraint support
Previous metric constraints were binary, either none or don't group
when the NMI watchdog is present. Update to match the definitions in
'enum metric_event_groups' in pmu-events.h.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:12:49 -08:00
Ian Rogers
33c44bbcd4 perf jevents: Allow multiple metricgroups.json files
Allow multiple metricgroups.json files by handling any file ending
with metricgroups.json as a metricgroups file.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:12:49 -08:00
Ian Rogers
4b11c983f4 perf ilist: Be tolerant of reading a metric on the wrong CPU
This happens on hybrid machine metrics. Be tolerant and don't cause
the ilist application to crash with an exception.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:12:49 -08:00
Ian Rogers
6603c3c1fe perf python: Correct copying of metric_leader in an evsel
Ensure the metric_leader is copied and set up correctly. In
compute_metric determine the correct metric_leader event to match the
requested CPU. Fixes the handling of metrics particularly on hybrid
machines.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:12:49 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
c9cd0c7e52 perf test: Add python JIT dump test
Add a test case for the python interpreter like below so that we can
make sure it won't break again.  To validate the effect of build-ID
generation, it adds and removes the JIT'ed DSOs to/from the build-ID
cache for the test.

  $ perf test -vv jitdump
   84: python profiling with jitdump:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 214316
  Run python with -Xperf_jit
  [ perf record: Woken up 5 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.180 MB /tmp/__perf_test.perf.data.XbqZNm (140 samples) ]
  Generate JIT-ed DSOs using perf inject
  Add JIT-ed DSOs to the build-ID cache
  Check the symbol containing the script name
  Found 108 matching lines
  Remove JIT-ed DSOs from the build-ID cache
  ---- end(0) ----
   84: python profiling with jitdump                                   : Ok

Cc: Pablo Galindo <pablogsal@gmail.com>
Link: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/perf_profiling.html#how-to-work-without-frame-pointers
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:06:57 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
25d498e636 perf jitdump: Add sym/str-tables to build-ID generation
It was reported that python backtrace with JIT dump was broken after the
change to built-in SHA-1 implementation.  It seems python generates the
same JIT code for each function.  They will become separate DSOs but the
contents are the same.  Only difference is in the symbol name.

But this caused a problem that every JIT'ed DSOs will have the same
build-ID which makes perf confused.  And it resulted in no python
symbols (from JIT) in the output.

Looking back at the original code before the conversion, it used the
load_addr as well as the code section to distinguish each DSO.  But it'd
be better to use contents of symtab and strtab instead as it aligns with
some linker behaviors.

This patch adds a buffer to save all the contents in a single place for
SHA-1 calculation.  Probably we need to add sha1_update() or similar to
update the existing hash value with different contents and use it here.
But it's out of scope for this change and I'd like something that can be
backported to the stable trees easily.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Pablo Galindo <pablogsal@gmail.com>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@sourceware.org>
Link: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/139544
Fixes: e3f612c1d8 ("perf genelf: Remove libcrypto dependency and use built-in sha1()")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:06:57 -08:00
Ian Rogers
44f6b44027 perf test: Fix hybrid testing of event fallback test
The mem-loads-aux event exists on hybrid systems but the "cpu" PMU
does not. This causes an event parsing error which erroneously makes
the test look like it is failing. Avoid naming the PMU to avoid
this. Rather than cleaning up perf.data in the directory the test is
run, explicitly send the 'perf record' output to /dev/null and avoid
any cleanup scripts.

Fixes: fc9c17b223 ("perf test: Add a perf event fallback test")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:02:47 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
441863ae3d perf tools: Remove a trailing newline in the event terms
So that it can show the correct encoding info in the JSON output.

  $ perf list -j hw
  [
  {
          "Unit": "cpu",
          "Topic": "legacy hardware",
          "EventName": "branch-instructions",
          "EventType": "Kernel PMU event",
          "BriefDescription": "Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branches]",
          "Encoding": "cpu/event=0xc4/"
  },
  ...

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:02:33 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
267c2e633a perf trace: Skip internal syscall arguments
Recent changes in the linux-next kernel will add new field for syscalls
to have contents in the userspace like below.

  # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_write/format
  name: sys_enter_write
  ID: 758
  format:
          field:unsigned short common_type;       offset:0;       size:2; signed:0;
          field:unsigned char common_flags;       offset:2;       size:1; signed:0;
          field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;       offset:3;       size:1; signed:0;
          field:int common_pid;   offset:4;       size:4; signed:1;

          field:int __syscall_nr; offset:8;       size:4; signed:1;
          field:unsigned int fd;  offset:16;      size:8; signed:0;
          field:const char * buf; offset:24;      size:8; signed:0;
          field:size_t count;     offset:32;      size:8; signed:0;
          field:__data_loc char[] __buf_val;      offset:40;      size:4; signed:0;

  print fmt: "fd: 0x%08lx, buf: 0x%08lx (%s), count: 0x%08lx", ((unsigned long)(REC->fd)),
             ((unsigned long)(REC->buf)), __print_dynamic_array(__buf_val, 1),
             ((unsigned long)(REC->count))

We have a different way to handle those arguments and this change
confuses perf trace then make some tests failing.  Fix it by skipping
the new fields that have "__data_loc char[]" type.

Maybe we can switch to this instead of the BPF augmentation later.

Reviewed-by: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-29 12:23:37 -08:00
James Clark
834ebb5678 perf tools: Don't read build-ids from non-regular files
Simplify the build ID reading code by removing the non-blocking option.
Having to pass the correct option to this function was fragile and a
mistake would result in a hang, see the linked fix. Furthermore,
compressed files are always opened blocking anyway, ignoring the
non-blocking option.

We also don't expect to read build IDs from non-regular files. The only
hits to this function that are non-regular are devices that won't be elf
files with build IDs, for example "/dev/dri/renderD129".

Now instead of opening these as non-blocking and failing to read, we
skip them. Even if something like a pipe or character device did have a
build ID, I don't think it would have worked because you need to call
read() in a loop, check for -EAGAIN and handle timeouts to make
non-blocking reads work.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20251022-james-perf-fix-dso-block-v1-1-c4faab150546@linaro.org/
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-26 10:13:38 -08:00
Inochi Amaoto
c957328772 perf vendor events riscv: add T-HEAD C920V2 JSON support
T-HEAD C920 has a V2 iteration, which supports Sscompmf. The V2
iteration supports the same perf events as V1.

Reuse T-HEAD c900-legacy JSON file for T-HEAD C920V2.

Signed-off-by: Inochi Amaoto <inochiama@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-26 09:59:29 -08:00
Anubhav Shelat
87c75fa755 perf pmu: fix duplicate conditional statement
Remove duplicate check for PERF_PMU_TYPE_DRM_END in perf_pmu__kind.

Fixes: f0feb21e0a ("perf pmu: Add PMU kind to simplify differentiating")
Signed-off-by: Anubhav Shelat <ashelat@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/CA+G8Dh+wLx+FvjjoEkypqvXhbzWEQVpykovzrsHi2_eQjHkzQA@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-26 09:57:13 -08:00
James Clark
5accdaec52 perf docs: arm-spe: Document new SPE filtering features
FEAT_SPE_EFT and FEAT_SPE_FDS etc have new user facing format attributes
so document them. Also document existing 'event_filter' bits that were
missing from the doc and the fact that latency values are stored in the
weight field.

Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-24 12:20:07 -08:00
James Clark
14a84c708e perf tools: Add support for perf_event_attr::config4
perf_event_attr has gained a new field, config4, so add support for it
extending the existing configN support.

Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-24 12:20:06 -08:00
James Clark
80cdf20811 tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/perf_event.h with the kernel sources
To pickup config4 changes.

Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-24 12:20:06 -08:00
Hrishikesh Suresh
9bef5cead6 perf: replace strcpy() with strncpy() in util/jitdump.c
Usage of strcpy() can lead to buffer overflows. Therefore, it has been
replaced with strncpy(). The output file path is provided as a parameter
and might be restricted by command-line by default. But this defensive
patch will prevent any potential overflow, making the code more robust
against future changes in input handling.

Testing:
- ran perf test from tools/perf and did not observe any regression with
  the earlier code

Signed-off-by: Hrishikesh Suresh <hrishikesh123s@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-20 11:13:04 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
3ce77655f0 perf list: Support filtering in JSON output
Like regular output mode, it should honor command line arguments to
limit to a certain type of PMUs or events.

  $ perf list -j hw
  [
  {
          "Unit": "cpu",
          "Topic": "legacy hardware",
          "EventName": "branch-instructions",
          "EventType": "Kernel PMU event",
          "BriefDescription": "Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branches]",
          "Encoding": "cpu/event=0xc4\n/"
  },
  {
          "Unit": "cpu",
          "Topic": "legacy hardware",
          "EventName": "branch-misses",
          "EventType": "Kernel PMU event",
          "BriefDescription": "Mispredicted branch instructions",
          "Encoding": "cpu/event=0xc5\n/"
  },
  ...

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-20 11:11:48 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
58e0a81e76 perf list: Share print state with JSON output
The JSON print state has only one different field (need_sep).  Let's
add the default print state to the json state and use it.  Then we can
use the 'ps' variable to update the state properly.

This is a preparation for the next commit.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-20 11:11:48 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
8cf9cca7f6 perf list: Print matching PMU events for --unit
When --unit option is used, pmu_glob is set to the argument.  It should
match with event PMU and display the matching ones only.  But it also
shows raw events and metrics after that.

  $ perf list --unit tool
  List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M):

  tool:
    core_wide
         [1 if not SMT,if SMT are events being gathered on all SMT threads 1 otherwise 0. Unit: tool]
    duration_time
         [Wall clock interval time in nanoseconds. Unit: tool]
    has_pmem
         [1 if persistent memory installed otherwise 0. Unit: tool]
    num_cores
         [Number of cores. A core consists of 1 or more thread,with each thread being associated with a logical Linux CPU. Unit: tool]
    num_cpus
         [Number of logical Linux CPUs. There may be multiple such CPUs on a core. Unit: tool]
    ...
    rNNN                                               [Raw event descriptor]
    cpu/event=0..255,pc,edge,.../modifier              [Raw event descriptor]
         [(see 'man perf-list' or 'man perf-record' on how to encode it)]
    breakpoint//modifier                               [Raw event descriptor]
    cstate_core/event=0..0xffffffffffffffff/modifier   [Raw event descriptor]
    cstate_pkg/event=0..0xffffffffffffffff/modifier    [Raw event descriptor]
    drm_i915//modifier                                 [Raw event descriptor]
    hwmon_acpitz//modifier                             [Raw event descriptor]
    hwmon_ac//modifier                                 [Raw event descriptor]
    hwmon_bat0//modifier                               [Raw event descriptor]
    hwmon_coretemp//modifier                           [Raw event descriptor]
    ...

  Metric Groups:

  Backend: [Grouping from Top-down Microarchitecture Analysis Metrics spreadsheet]
    tma_core_bound
         [This metric represents fraction of slots where Core non-memory issues were of a bottleneck]
    tma_info_core_ilp
         [Instruction-Level-Parallelism (average number of uops executed when there is execution) per thread (logical-processor)]
    tma_info_memory_l2mpki
         [L2 cache true misses per kilo instruction for retired demand loads]
    ...

This change makes it print the tool PMU events only.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-20 11:11:48 -08:00
Ian Rogers
41b67ab3d2 perf test all metrics: Fully ignore Default metric failures
Determine if a metric is default from `perf list --raw-dump $m` eg:
```
$ perf list --raw-dump l1_prefetch_miss_rate
Default4 l1_prefetch_miss_rate
```
If a metric has "not supported" or "no supported events" then ignore
these failures for default metrics. Tidy up the skip/fail messages in
the output to make them easier to spot/read.

```
$ perf list -vv "all metrics"
...
Testing llc_miss_rate
[Ignored llc_miss_rate] failed but as a Default metric this can be expected
Error: No supported events found. The LLC-loads event is not supported.
...
```

Reported-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20251119104751.51960-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com/
Reported-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reported-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aRi9xnwdLh3Dir9f@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-20 11:08:46 -08:00
Ian Rogers
d53b499658 perf evsel: Skip store_evsel_ids for non-perf-event PMUs
The IDs are associated with perf events and not applicable to non-perf
event PMUs. The failure to generate the ids was causing perf stat
record to fail.

```
$ perf stat record -a sleep 1

 Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

            47,941      context-switches                 #      nan cs/sec  cs_per_second
              0.00 msec cpu-clock                        #      0.0 CPUs  CPUs_utilized
             3,261      cpu-migrations                   #      nan migrations/sec  migrations_per_second
               516      page-faults                      #      nan faults/sec  page_faults_per_second
         7,525,483      cpu_core/branch-misses/          #      2.3 %  branch_miss_rate
       322,069,004      cpu_core/branches/               #      nan M/sec  branch_frequency
     1,895,684,291      cpu_core/cpu-cycles/             #      nan GHz  cycles_frequency
     2,789,777,426      cpu_core/instructions/           #      1.5 instructions  insn_per_cycle
         7,074,765      cpu_atom/branch-misses/          #      3.2 %  branch_miss_rate         (49.89%)
       224,225,412      cpu_atom/branches/               #      nan M/sec  branch_frequency     (50.29%)
     2,061,679,981      cpu_atom/cpu-cycles/             #      nan GHz  cycles_frequency       (50.33%)
     2,011,242,533      cpu_atom/instructions/           #      1.0 instructions  insn_per_cycle  (50.33%)
             TopdownL1 (cpu_core)                        #      9.0 %  tma_bad_speculation
                                                         #     28.3 %  tma_frontend_bound
                                                         #     35.2 %  tma_backend_bound
                                                         #     27.5 %  tma_retiring
             TopdownL1 (cpu_atom)                        #     36.8 %  tma_backend_bound        (59.65%)
                                                         #     22.8 %  tma_frontend_bound       (59.60%)
                                                         #     11.6 %  tma_bad_speculation
                                                         #     28.8 %  tma_retiring             (59.59%)

       1.006777519 seconds time elapsed

$ perf stat report

 Performance counter stats for 'perf':

     1,013,376,154      duration_time
     <not counted>      duration_time
     <not counted>      duration_time
     <not counted>      duration_time
     <not counted>      duration_time
     <not counted>      duration_time
            47,941      context-switches
              0.00 msec cpu-clock
             3,261      cpu-migrations
               516      page-faults
         7,525,483      cpu_core/branch-misses/
       322,069,814      cpu_core/branches/
       322,069,004      cpu_core/branches/
     1,895,684,291      cpu_core/cpu-cycles/
     1,895,679,209      cpu_core/cpu-cycles/
     2,789,777,426      cpu_core/instructions/
     <not counted>      cpu_core/cpu-cycles/
     <not counted>      cpu_core/stalled-cycles-frontend/
     <not counted>      cpu_core/cpu-cycles/
     <not counted>      cpu_core/stalled-cycles-backend/
     <not counted>      cpu_core/stalled-cycles-backend/
     <not counted>      cpu_core/instructions/
     <not counted>      cpu_core/stalled-cycles-frontend/
         7,074,765      cpu_atom/branch-misses/                                                 (49.89%)
       221,679,088      cpu_atom/branches/                                                      (49.89%)
       224,225,412      cpu_atom/branches/                                                      (50.29%)
     2,061,679,981      cpu_atom/cpu-cycles/                                                    (50.33%)
     2,016,259,567      cpu_atom/cpu-cycles/                                                    (50.33%)
     2,011,242,533      cpu_atom/instructions/                                                  (50.33%)
     <not counted>      cpu_atom/cpu-cycles/
     <not counted>      cpu_atom/stalled-cycles-frontend/
     <not counted>      cpu_atom/cpu-cycles/
     <not counted>      cpu_atom/stalled-cycles-backend/
     <not counted>      cpu_atom/stalled-cycles-backend/
     <not counted>      cpu_atom/instructions/
     <not counted>      cpu_atom/stalled-cycles-frontend/
        17,145,113      cpu_core/INT_MISC.UOP_DROPPING/
    10,594,226,100      cpu_core/TOPDOWN.SLOTS/
     2,919,021,401      cpu_core/topdown-retiring/
       943,101,838      cpu_core/topdown-bad-spec/
     3,031,152,533      cpu_core/topdown-fe-bound/
     3,739,756,791      cpu_core/topdown-be-bound/
     1,909,501,648      cpu_atom/CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.CORE/                                         (60.04%)
     3,516,608,359      cpu_atom/TOPDOWN_BE_BOUND.ALL/                                          (59.65%)
     2,179,403,876      cpu_atom/TOPDOWN_FE_BOUND.ALL/                                          (59.60%)
     2,745,732,458      cpu_atom/TOPDOWN_RETIRING.ALL/                                          (59.59%)

       1.006777519 seconds time elapsed

Some events weren't counted. Try disabling the NMI watchdog:
        echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
        perf stat ...
        echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
```

Reported-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ca0f0cd3-7335-48f9-8737-2f70a75b019a@linaro.org/
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-19 17:49:45 -08:00
Ian Rogers
f0feb21e0a perf pmu: Add PMU kind to simplify differentiating
Rather than perf_pmu__is_xxx calls, and a notion of kind so that a
single call can be used.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-19 17:49:45 -08:00
Ian Rogers
1a6b0deb2b perf header: Switch "cpu" for find_core_pmu in caps feature writing
Writing currently fails on non-x86 and hybrid CPUs. Switch to the more
regular find_core_pmu that is normally used in this case. Tested on
hybrid alderlake system.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-19 17:49:45 -08:00
Ian Rogers
36434959b6 perf test maps: Additional maps__fixup_overlap_and_insert tests
Add additional test to the maps covering
maps__fixup_overlap_and_insert. Change the test suite to be for more
than just 1 test.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-19 16:20:15 -08:00