Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov: - Fix BPF builds due to -fms-extensions. selftests (Alexei Starovoitov), bpftool (Quentin Monnet). - Fix build of net/smc when CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, but CONFIG_BPF_JIT=n (Geert Uytterhoeven) - Fix livepatch/BPF interaction and support reliable unwinding through BPF stack frames (Josh Poimboeuf) - Do not audit capability check in arm64 JIT (Ondrej Mosnacek) - Fix truncated dmabuf BPF iterator reads (T.J. Mercier) - Fix verifier assumptions of bpf_d_path's output buffer (Shuran Liu) - Fix warnings in libbpf when built with -Wdiscarded-qualifiers under C23 (Mikhail Gavrilov) * tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf: selftests/bpf: add regression test for bpf_d_path() bpf: Fix verifier assumptions of bpf_d_path's output buffer selftests/bpf: Add test for truncated dmabuf_iter reads bpf: Fix truncated dmabuf iterator reads x86/unwind/orc: Support reliable unwinding through BPF stack frames bpf: Add bpf_has_frame_pointer() bpf, arm64: Do not audit capability check in do_jit() libbpf: Fix -Wdiscarded-qualifiers under C23 bpftool: Fix build warnings due to MS extensions net: smc: SMC_HS_CTRL_BPF should depend on BPF_JIT selftests/bpf: Add -fms-extensions to bpf build flags
glibc ≥ 2.42 (GCC 15) defaults to -std=gnu23, which promotes -Wdiscarded-qualifiers to an error. In C23, strstr() and strchr() return "const char *". Change variable types to const char * where the pointers are never modified (res, sym_sfx, next_path). Suggested-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251206092825.1471385-1-mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com 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
...
Use 'extern' on LIBPERF_API to address this issue that started appearing
with gcc 15, first seen in ubuntu 25.10:
evlist.c: In function 'perf_evlist__purge':
evlist.c:202:17: error: implicit declaration of function 'perf_evsel__delete'; did you mean 'perf_evsel__exit'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
202 | perf_evsel__delete(pos);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| perf_evsel__exit
evlist.c:202:17: error: nested extern declaration of 'perf_evsel__delete' [-Werror=nested-externs]
evlist.c: In function 'perf_evlist__open':
evlist.c:261:23: error: implicit declaration of function 'perf_evsel__open'; did you mean 'perf_evsel__exit'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
261 | err = perf_evsel__open(evsel, evsel->cpus, evsel->threads);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| perf_evsel__exit
evlist.c:261:23: error: nested extern declaration of 'perf_evsel__open' [-Werror=nested-externs]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Passing an empty map to perf_cpu_map__max triggered a SEGV. Explicitly test for the empty map. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/aSwt7yzFjVJCEmVp@gmail.com/ Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: - Convert selftests/bpf/test_tc_edt and test_tc_tunnel from .sh to test_progs runner (Alexis Lothoré) - Convert selftests/bpf/test_xsk to test_progs runner (Bastien Curutchet) - Replace bpf memory allocator with kmalloc_nolock() in bpf_local_storage (Amery Hung), and in bpf streams and range tree (Puranjay Mohan) - Introduce support for indirect jumps in BPF verifier and x86 JIT (Anton Protopopov) and arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan) - Remove runqslower bpf tool (Hoyeon Lee) - Fix corner cases in the verifier to close several syzbot reports (Eduard Zingerman, KaFai Wan) - Several improvements in deadlock detection in rqspinlock (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Implement "jmp" mode for BPF trampoline and corresponding DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_JMP. It improves "fexit" program type performance from 80 M/s to 136 M/s. With Steven's Ack. (Menglong Dong) - Add ability to test non-linear skbs in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Paul Chaignon) - Do not let BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN emit invalid GSO types to stack (Daniel Borkmann) - Generalize buildid reader into bpf_dynptr (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types (Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma) - Introduce overwrite mode for BPF ring buffer (Xu Kuohai) * tag 'bpf-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (169 commits) bpf: optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types bpf: make kprobe_multi_link_prog_run always_inline selftests/bpf: do not hardcode target rate in test_tc_edt BPF program selftests/bpf: remove test_tc_edt.sh selftests/bpf: integrate test_tc_edt into test_progs selftests/bpf: rename test_tc_edt.bpf.c section to expose program type selftests/bpf: Add success stats to rqspinlock stress test rqspinlock: Precede non-head waiter queueing with AA check rqspinlock: Disable spinning for trylock fallback rqspinlock: Use trylock fallback when per-CPU rqnode is busy rqspinlock: Perform AA checks immediately rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions bpf: Remove runqslower tool selftests/bpf: Remove usage of lsm/file_alloc_security in selftest bpf: Disable file_alloc_security hook bpf: check for insn arrays in check_ptr_alignment bpf: force BPF_F_RDONLY_PROG on insn array creation bpf: Fix exclusive map memory leak selftests/bpf: Make CS length configurable for rqspinlock stress test selftests/bpf: Add lock wait time stats to rqspinlock stress test ...
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"This has been another busy cycle for documentation, with a lot of
build-system thrashing. That work should slow down from here on out.
- The various scripts and tools for documentation were spread out in
several directories; now they are (almost) all coalesced under
tools/docs/. The holdout is the kernel-doc script, which cannot be
easily moved without some further thought.
- As the amount of Python code increases, we are accumulating modules
that are imported by multiple programs. These modules have been
pulled together under tools/lib/python/ -- at least, for
documentation-related programs. There is other Python code in the
tree that might eventually want to move toward this organization.
- The Perl kernel-doc.pl script has been removed. It is no longer
used by default, and nobody has missed it, least of all anybody who
actually had to look at it.
- The docs build was controlled by a complex mess of makefilese that
few dared to touch. Mauro has moved that logic into a new program
(tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper) that, with any luck at all, will
be far easier to understand and maintain.
- The get_feat.pl program, used to access information under
Documentation/features/, has been rewritten in Python, bringing an
end to the use of Perl in the docs subsystem.
- The top-level README file has been reorganized into a more
reader-friendly presentation.
- A lot of Chinese translation additions
- Typo fixes and documentation updates as usual"
* tag 'docs-6.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (164 commits)
docs: makefile: move rustdoc check to the build wrapper
README: restructure with role-based documentation and guidelines
docs: kdoc: various fixes for grammar, spelling, punctuation
docs: kdoc_parser: use '@' for Excess enum value
docs: submitting-patches: Clarify that removal of Acks needs explanation too
docs: kdoc_parser: add data/function attributes to ignore
docs: MAINTAINERS: update Mauro's files/paths
docs/zh_CN: Add wd719x.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: Add libsas.rst translation
get_feat.pl: remove it, as it got replaced by get_feat.py
Documentation/sphinx/kernel_feat.py: use class directly
tools/docs/get_feat.py: convert get_feat.pl to Python
Documentation/admin-guide: fix typo and comment in cscope example
docs/zh_CN: Add data-integrity.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: Add blk-mq.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: Add block/index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: Update the Chinese translation of kbuild.rst
docs: bring some order to our Python module hierarchy
docs: Move the python libraries to tools/lib/python
Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move the kernel build options
...
Pull s390 updates from Heiko Carstens: - Provide a new interface for dynamic configuration and deconfiguration of hotplug memory, allowing with and without memmap_on_memory support. This makes the way memory hotplug is handled on s390 much more similar to other architectures - Remove compat support. There shouldn't be any compat user space around anymore, therefore get rid of a lot of code which also doesn't need to be tested anymore - Add stackprotector support. GCC 16 will get new compiler options, which allow to generate code required for kernel stackprotector support - Merge pai_crypto and pai_ext PMU drivers into a new driver. This removes a lot of duplicated code. The new driver is also extendable and allows to support new PMUs - Add driver override support for AP queues - Rework and extend zcrypt and AP trace events to allow for tracing of crypto requests - Support block sizes larger than 65535 bytes for CCW tape devices - Since the rework of the virtual kernel address space the module area and the kernel image are within the same 4GB area. This eliminates the need of weak per cpu variables. Get rid of ARCH_MODULE_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU - Various other small improvements and fixes * tag 's390-6.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (92 commits) watchdog: diag288_wdt: Remove KMSG_COMPONENT macro s390/entry: Use lay instead of aghik s390/vdso: Get rid of -m64 flag handling s390/vdso: Rename vdso64 to vdso s390: Rename head64.S to head.S s390/vdso: Use common STABS_DEBUG and DWARF_DEBUG macros s390: Add stackprotector support s390/modules: Simplify module_finalize() slightly s390: Remove KMSG_COMPONENT macro s390/percpu: Get rid of ARCH_MODULE_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU s390/ap: Restrict driver_override versus apmask and aqmask use s390/ap: Rename mutex ap_perms_mutex to ap_attr_mutex s390/ap: Support driver_override for AP queue devices s390/ap: Use all-bits-one apmask/aqmask for vfio in_use() checks s390/debug: Update description of resize operation s390/syscalls: Switch to generic system call table generation s390/syscalls: Remove system call table pointer from thread_struct s390/uapi: Remove 31 bit support from uapi header files s390: Remove compat support tools: Remove s390 compat 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>
Correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation in comments, strings, print messages, logs. Change two instances of two spaces between words to just one space. codespell was used to find misspelled words. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251124041011.3030571-1-rdunlap@infradead.org>