- Support SIMD/eGPRs/SSP register sampling in perf
(Dapeng Mi, Kan Liang)
- Turn amd_uncore_ctx events into a flexible array (Rosen Penev)
- Finish the work related to fixing the guest PEBS path to not
set unwanted PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL bits, for which urgent fixes
are upstream already (Sean Christopherson)
- Drop redundant counter slot searches in the AMD uncore
driver (Usama Arif)
- Don't WARN when the ext_regs_buf allocation fails (vineash)
- Annotate x86_pmu::hybrid_pmu with __counted_by_ptr (Thorsten Blum)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-2026-10-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf events updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Support SIMD/eGPRs/SSP register sampling in perf
(Dapeng Mi, Kan Liang)
- Turn amd_uncore_ctx events into a flexible array (Rosen Penev)
- Finish the work related to fixing the guest PEBS path to not
set unwanted PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL bits, for which urgent fixes
are upstream already (Sean Christopherson)
- Drop redundant counter slot searches in the AMD uncore
driver (Usama Arif)
- Don't WARN when the ext_regs_buf allocation fails (vineash)
- Annotate x86_pmu::hybrid_pmu with __counted_by_ptr (Thorsten Blum)
* tag 'perf-core-2026-10-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
perf/x86: Don't WARN when the ext_regs_buf allocation fails
perf/x86/amd/uncore: Free counter slot by index
perf/x86/amd/uncore: Remove redundant event slot scan
perf/x86/intel: Check only PMC bits in PEBS_ENABLED when detecting host PEBS usage
KVM: VMX: Only tell perf to enable PEBS counters for fully enabled PMCs
KVM: VMX: Drop a redundant pmu->global_ctrl check when processing pebs_enable
perf/x86/intel: KVM: Handle cross-mapped PEBS PMCs entirely within KVM
perf/x86: KVM: Have perf define a dedicated struct for getting guest PEBS data
perf/x86/intel: Invert names of intel_ctrl_{guest,host}_mask
perf/x86/intel: Annotate x86_pmu::hybrid_pmu with __counted_by_ptr
perf/x86/amd/uncore: Turn amd_uncore_ctx events into a flexible array
perf/x86/intel: Add sanity check for PEBS record/fragment size
perf/x86: Activate back-to-back NMI detection for arch-PEBS induced NMIs
perf/x86/intel: Advertise PERF_PMU_CAP_SIMD_REGS capability
perf/x86/intel: Support arch-PEBS based SIMD/eGPRs sampling
perf/x86: Support SSP sampling using sample_regs_* fields
perf/x86: Support eGPRs sampling using sample_regs_* fields
perf: Enhance perf_reg_validate() with simd_enabled argument
perf/x86: Support OPMASK sampling using sample_simd_pred_reg_* fields
perf/x86: Support ZMM sampling using sample_simd_vec_reg_* fields
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