Pull performance event updates from Ingo Molnar:
"x86 PMU driver updates:
- Add support for the core PMU for Intel Diamond Rapids (DMR) CPUs
(Dapeng Mi)
Compared to previous iterations of the Intel PMU code, there's been
a lot of changes, which center around three main areas:
- Introduce the OFF-MODULE RESPONSE (OMR) facility to replace the
Off-Core Response (OCR) facility
- New PEBS data source encoding layout
- Support the new "RDPMC user disable" feature
- Likewise, a large series adds uncore PMU support for Intel Diamond
Rapids (DMR) CPUs (Zide Chen)
This centers around these four main areas:
- DMR may have two Integrated I/O and Memory Hub (IMH) dies,
separate from the compute tile (CBB) dies. Each CBB and each IMH
die has its own discovery domain.
- Unlike prior CPUs that retrieve the global discovery table
portal exclusively via PCI or MSR, DMR uses PCI for IMH PMON
discovery and MSR for CBB PMON discovery.
- DMR introduces several new PMON types: SCA, HAMVF, D2D_ULA, UBR,
PCIE4, CRS, CPC, ITC, OTC, CMS, and PCIE6.
- IIO free-running counters in DMR are MMIO-based, unlike SPR.
- Also add support for Add missing PMON units for Intel Panther Lake,
and support Nova Lake (NVL), which largely maps to Panther Lake.
(Zide Chen)
- KVM integration: Add support for mediated vPMUs (by Kan Liang and
Sean Christopherson, with fixes and cleanups by Peter Zijlstra,
Sandipan Das and Mingwei Zhang)
- Add Intel cstate driver to support for Wildcat Lake (WCL) CPUs,
which are a low-power variant of Panther Lake (Zide Chen)
- Add core, cstate and MSR PMU support for the Airmont NP Intel CPU
(aka MaxLinear Lightning Mountain), which maps to the existing
Airmont code (Martin Schiller)
Performance enhancements:
- Speed up kexec shutdown by avoiding unnecessary cross CPU calls
(Jan H. Schönherr)
- Fix slow perf_event_task_exit() with LBR callstacks (Namhyung Kim)
User-space stack unwinding support:
- Various cleanups and refactorings in preparation to generalize the
unwinding code for other architectures (Jens Remus)
Uprobes updates:
- Transition from kmap_atomic to kmap_local_page (Keke Ming)
- Fix incorrect lockdep condition in filter_chain() (Breno Leitao)
- Fix XOL allocation failure for 32-bit tasks (Oleg Nesterov)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- s390: Remove kvm_types.h from Kbuild (Randy Dunlap)
- x86/intel/uncore: Convert comma to semicolon (Chen Ni)
- x86/uncore: Clean up const mismatch (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
- x86/ibs: Fix typo in dc_l2tlb_miss comment (Xiang-Bin Shi)"
* tag 'perf-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits)
s390: remove kvm_types.h from Kbuild
uprobes: Fix incorrect lockdep condition in filter_chain()
x86/ibs: Fix typo in dc_l2tlb_miss comment
x86/uprobes: Fix XOL allocation failure for 32-bit tasks
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Convert comma to semicolon
perf/x86/intel: Add support for rdpmc user disable feature
perf/x86: Use macros to replace magic numbers in attr_rdpmc
perf/x86/intel: Add core PMU support for Novalake
perf/x86/intel: Add support for PEBS memory auxiliary info field in NVL
perf/x86/intel: Add core PMU support for DMR
perf/x86/intel: Add support for PEBS memory auxiliary info field in DMR
perf/x86/intel: Support the 4 new OMR MSRs introduced in DMR and NVL
perf/core: Fix slow perf_event_task_exit() with LBR callstacks
perf/core: Speed up kexec shutdown by avoiding unnecessary cross CPU calls
uprobes: use kmap_local_page() for temporary page mappings
arm/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol()
mips/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol()
arm64/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol()
riscv/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol()
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add Nova Lake support
...
Currently, the BPF cgroup iterator supports walking descendants in either pre-order (BPF_CGROUP_ITER_DESCENDANTS_PRE) or post-order (BPF_CGROUP_ITER_DESCENDANTS_POST). These modes perform an exhaustive depth-first search (DFS) of the hierarchy. In scenarios where a BPF program may need to inspect only the direct children of a given parent cgroup, a full DFS is unnecessarily expensive. This patch introduces a new BPF cgroup iterator control option, BPF_CGROUP_ITER_CHILDREN. This control option restricts the traversal to the immediate children of a specified parent cgroup, allowing for more targeted and efficient iteration, particularly when exhaustive depth-first search (DFS) traversal is not required. Signed-off-by: Matt Bobrowski <mattbobrowski@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260127085112.3608687-1-mattbobrowski@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The fsession is something that similar to kprobe session. It allow to attach a single BPF program to both the entry and the exit of the target functions. Introduce the struct bpf_fsession_link, which allows to add the link to both the fentry and fexit progs_hlist of the trampoline. Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <dongml2@chinatelecom.cn> Co-developed-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260124062008.8657-2-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
With the introduction of the OMR feature, the PEBS memory auxiliary info field for load and store latency events has been restructured for DMR. The memory auxiliary info field's bit[8] indicates whether a L2 cache miss occurred for a memory load or store instruction. If bit[8] is 0, it signifies no L2 cache miss, and bits[7:0] specify the exact cache data source (up to the L2 cache level). If bit[8] is 1, bits[7:0] represent the OMR encoding, indicating the specific L3 cache or memory region involved in the memory access. A significant enhancement is OMR encoding provides up to 8 fine-grained memory regions besides the cache region. A significant enhancement for OMR encoding is the ability to provide up to 8 fine-grained memory regions in addition to the cache region, offering more detailed insights into memory access regions. For detailed information on the memory auxiliary info encoding, please refer to section 16.2 "PEBS LOAD LATENCY AND STORE LATENCY FACILITY" in the ISE documentation. This patch ensures that the PEBS memory auxiliary info field is correctly interpreted and utilized in DMR. Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260114011750.350569-3-dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com
Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR. No conflicts. Adjacent: Auto-merging MAINTAINERS Auto-merging Makefile Auto-merging kernel/bpf/verifier.c Auto-merging kernel/sched/ext.c Auto-merging mm/memcontrol.c Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
In a vain attempt to consolidate the email zoo switch everything to the kernel.org account. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce BPF_F_CPU and BPF_F_ALL_CPUS flags and check them for following APIs: * 'map_lookup_elem()' * 'map_update_elem()' * 'generic_map_lookup_batch()' * 'generic_map_update_batch()' And, get the correct value size for these APIs. Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260107022022.12843-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
To pick up changes from:
ad9c62bd8946621e ("KVM: arm64: VM exit to userspace to handle SEA")
8e8678e740ecde2a ("KVM: s390: Add capability that forwards operation exceptions")
e0c26d47def7382d ("Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-6.19-1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD")
7a61d61396b97fd6 ("KVM: SEV: Publish supported SEV-SNP policy bits")
This should be used to beautify DRM syscall arguments and it addresses
these tools/perf build warnings:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README.
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"Perf event/metric description:
Unify all event and metric descriptions in JSON format. Now event
parsing and handling is greatly simplified by that.
From users point of view, perf list will provide richer information
about hardware events like the following.
$ perf list hw
List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M):
legacy hardware:
branch-instructions
[Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branches]. Unit: cpu]
branch-misses
[Mispredicted branch instructions. Unit: cpu]
branches
[Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branch-instructions]. Unit: cpu]
bus-cycles
[Bus cycles,which can be different from total cycles. Unit: cpu]
cache-misses
[Cache misses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache misses; this is intended to be used in conjunction with the
PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES event to calculate cache miss rates. Unit: cpu]
cache-references
[Cache accesses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache accesses but this may vary depending on your CPU. This may include
prefetches and coherency messages; again this depends on the design of your CPU. Unit: cpu]
cpu-cycles
[Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cycles]. Unit: cpu]
cycles
[Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cpu-cycles]. Unit: cpu]
instructions
[Retired instructions. Be careful,these can be affected by various issues,most notably hardware interrupt counts. Unit: cpu]
ref-cycles
[Total cycles; not affected by CPU frequency scaling. Unit: cpu]
But most notable changes would be in the perf stat. On the right side,
the default metrics are better named and aligned. :)
$ perf stat -- perf test -w noploop
Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop':
11 context-switches # 10.8 cs/sec cs_per_second
0 cpu-migrations # 0.0 migrations/sec migrations_per_second
3,612 page-faults # 3532.5 faults/sec page_faults_per_second
1,022.51 msec task-clock # 1.0 CPUs CPUs_utilized
110,466 branch-misses # 0.0 % branch_miss_rate (88.66%)
6,934,452,104 branches # 6781.8 M/sec branch_frequency (88.66%)
4,657,032,590 cpu-cycles # 4.6 GHz cycles_frequency (88.65%)
27,755,874,218 instructions # 6.0 instructions insn_per_cycle (89.03%)
TopdownL1 # 0.3 % tma_backend_bound
# 9.3 % tma_bad_speculation (89.05%)
# 9.7 % tma_frontend_bound (77.86%)
# 80.7 % tma_retiring (88.81%)
1.025318171 seconds time elapsed
1.013248000 seconds user
0.012014000 seconds sys
Deferred unwinding support:
With the kernel support (commit c69993ecdd4d: "perf: Support deferred
user unwind"), perf can use deferred callchains for userspace stack
trace with frame pointers like below:
$ perf record --call-graph fp,defer ...
This will be transparent to users when it comes to other commands like
perf report and perf script. They will merge the deferred callchains
to the previous samples as if they were collected together.
ARM SPE updates
- Extensive enhancements to support various kinds of memory
operations including GCS, MTE allocation tags, memcpy/memset,
register access, and SIMD operations.
- Add inverted data source filter (inv_data_src_filter) support to
exclude certain data sources.
- Improve documentation.
Vendor event updates:
- Intel: Updated event files for Sierra Forest, Panther Lake, Meteor
Lake, Lunar Lake, Granite Rapids, and others.
- Arm64: Added metrics for i.MX94 DDR PMU and Cortex-A720AE
definitions.
- RISC-V: Added JSON support for T-HEAD C920V2.
Misc:
- Improve pointer tracking in data type profiling. It'd give better
output when the variable is using container_of() to convert type.
- Annotation support for perf c2c report in TUI. Press 'a' key to
enter annotation view from cacheline browser window. This will show
which instruction is causing the cacheline contention.
- Lots of fixes and test coverage improvements!"
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (214 commits)
libperf: Use 'extern' in LIBPERF_API visibility macro
perf stat: Improve handling of termination by signal
perf tests stat: Add test for error for an offline CPU
perf stat: When no events, don't report an error if there is none
perf tests stat: Add "--null" coverage
perf cpumap: Add "any" CPU handling to cpu_map__snprint_mask
libperf cpumap: Fix perf_cpu_map__max for an empty/NULL map
perf stat: Allow no events to open if this is a "--null" run
perf test kvm: Add some basic perf kvm test coverage
perf tests evlist: Add basic evlist test
perf tests script dlfilter: Add a dlfilter test
perf tests kallsyms: Add basic kallsyms test
perf tests timechart: Add a perf timechart test
perf tests top: Add basic perf top coverage test
perf tests buildid: Add purge and remove testing
perf tests c2c: Add a basic c2c
perf c2c: Clean up some defensive gets and make asan clean
perf jitdump: Fix missed dso__put
perf mem-events: Don't leak online CPU map
perf hist: In init, ensure mem_info is put on error paths
...