linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/arch/arm, branch master

perf cs-etm: Finish removal of ETM_OPT_*

2026-03-10T12:50:44+00:00

These #defines have been removed from the kernel headers in favour of
the string based PMU format attributes. Usages were previously removed
from the recording side of cs-etm in Perf. Finish the removal by
removing usages from the decode side too.

It's a straight replacement of the old #defines with the new register
bit definitions. Except cs_etm__setup_timeless_decoding() which wasn't
looking at the saved metadata and was instead hard coding an access to
'attr.config'. This was vulnerable to the same issue of .config being
moved to .config2 etc that the original removal of ETM_OPT_* tried to
fix. So fix that too.

Signed-off-by: James Clark 
Tested-by: Leo Yan 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Mike Leach 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools headers: Update the syscall tables and unistd.h, to support the new 'rseq_slice_yield' syscall

2026-03-05T20:20:23+00:00

Picking up the changes from these csets:

  2153b2e8917b73e9 ("sparc: Add architecture support for clone3")
  99d2592023e5d0a3 ("rseq: Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield()")
  4ac286c4a8d904c8 ("s390/syscalls: Switch to generic system call table generation")

This makes 'perf trace' support it, now its possible, for instance, to
do:

  # perf trace -e rseq_slice_yield --max-stack=16

Here is an example with the 'sendmmsg' syscall:

  root@x1:~# perf trace -e sendmmsg --max-stack 16 --max-events=1
       0.000 ( 0.062 ms): dbus-broker/1012 sendmmsg(fd: 150, mmsg: 0x7ffef57cca50, vlen: 1, flags: DONTWAIT|NOSIGNAL) = 1
                                         syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                         syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                         syscall_exit_to_user_mode ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                         do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                         entry_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                         [0x117ce7] (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6 (deleted))
  root@x1:~#

To do a system wide tracing of the new 'rseq_slice_yield' syscall with a
backtrace of at most 16 entries.

This addresses these perf tools build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
    diff -u tools/scripts/syscall.tbl scripts/syscall.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/s390/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/arm/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/sh/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/sparc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
    diff -u tools/perf/arch/xtensa/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl

Cc: Andreas Larsson 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Ludwig Rydberg 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf regs: Remove weak attributive archxxx_reg_mask() functions

2026-02-06T15:16:09+00:00

Currently, some architecture-specific perf-regs functions, such as
arch__intr_reg_mask() and arch__user_reg_mask(), are defined with the
__weak attribute.

This approach ensures that only functions matching the architecture of
the build/run host are compiled and executed, reducing build time and
binary size.

However, this __weak attribute restricts these functions to be called
only on the same architecture, preventing cross-architecture
functionality.

For example, a perf.data file captured on x86 cannot be parsed on an ARM
platform.

To address this limitation, this patch removes the __weak attribute from
these perf-regs functions.

The architecture-specific code is moved from the arch/ directory to the
util/perf-regs-arch/ directory.

The appropriate architectural functions are then called based on the
EM_HOST.

No functional changes are intended.

Suggested-by: Ian Rogers 
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Mike Leach 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Falcon 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Xudong Hao 
Cc: Zide Chen 
[ Fixed up somme fuzz with s390 and riscv Build files wrt removing perf_regs.o ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf arch: Update arch headers to use relative UAPI paths

2026-02-06T15:15:48+00:00

The architectural specific headers perf_regs.h currently rely on the
host architecture's 'asm/perf_regs.h'.

This can lead to compilation inconsistencies or failures when including
and building perf for a target architecture that differs from the host's
architecture.

Explicitly point to the UAPI headers within the tools source tree using
relative paths.

This ensures that perf is always built against the intended
architecture.

No functional changes are intended.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Mike Leach 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Falcon 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Xudong Hao 
Cc: Zide Chen 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf regs: Refactor use of arch__sample_reg_masks() to perf_reg_name()

2026-01-23T19:58:39+00:00

arch__sample_reg_masks isn't supported on ARM(32), csky, loongarch,
MIPS, RISC-V and s390.

The table returned by the function just has the name of a register
paired with the corresponding sample_regs_user mask value.

For a given perf register we can compute the name with perf_reg_name and
the mask is just 1 left-shifted by the perf register number.

Change __parse_regs to use this method for finding registers rather than
arch__sample_reg_masks, thereby adding __parse_regs support for ARM(32),
csky, loongarch, MIPS, RISC-V and s390.

As arch__sample_reg_masks is then unused, remove the now unneeded
declarations.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Tested-by: Thomas Richter 
Cc: Aditya Bodkhe 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Athira Rajeev 
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao 
Cc: Dapeng Mi 
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov 
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Haibo Xu 
Cc: Howard Chu 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sergei Trofimovich 
Cc: Shimin Guo 
Cc: Stephen Brennan 
Cc: Thomas Falcon 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf disasm: Don't include C files from the arch directory

2026-01-23T19:58:38+00:00

Move the arch instructions.c files into appropriately named files in
annotate-arch in the util directory.

Don't #include to compile the code, switch to building the files and fix
up the #includes accordingly.

Move powerpc specific disasm code out of disasm.c and into
annotate-powerpc.c.

Declarations and static removed as appropriate for the code to compile
as separate compilation units.

The e_machine and e_flags set up is moved to the disasm.c architectures
array so that later patches can sort by them.

Reviewed-by: James Clark 
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Aditya Bodkhe 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Athira Rajeev 
Cc: Bill Wendling 
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Howard Chu 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Julia Lawall 
Cc: Justin Stitt 
Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sergei Trofimovich 
Cc: Shimin Guo 
Cc: Suchit Karunakaran 
Cc: Thomas Falcon 
Cc: Tianyou Li 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Zecheng Li 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf disasm: Constify use of 'struct ins_op'

2026-01-23T19:58:38+00:00

The 'struct ins_op' holds variables to function pointers that are read
but not written. Change uses to be for a "const struct ins_op *"
version to capture this immutability.

Reviewed-by: James Clark 
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Aditya Bodkhe 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Athira Rajeev 
Cc: Bill Wendling 
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Howard Chu 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Julia Lawall 
Cc: Justin Stitt 
Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sergei Trofimovich 
Cc: Shimin Guo 
Cc: Suchit Karunakaran 
Cc: Thomas Falcon 
Cc: Tianyou Li 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Zecheng Li 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf unwind-libdw: Fix a cross-arch unwinding bug

2026-01-20T16:00:39+00:00

The set_initial_registers field of Dwfl_Thread_Callbacks needs to be set
according to the arch of the stack samples being analyzed, not the arch
that perf itself is built for.

Currently perf fails to unwind stack samples collected from archs
different from that of the host perf is running on.

This patch moves the arch-specific implementations of set_initial_registers
from tools/perf/arch to tools/perf/utli/unwind-libdw-arch, similar to the
way the perf-regs-arch folder contains arch-specific functions related to
registers, and chooses the implementation based on the arch of the data
being processed.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: Shimin Guo 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Aditya Bodkhe 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Athira Rajeev 
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao 
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov 
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Haibo Xu 
Cc: Howard Chu 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Mark Wielaard 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sergei Trofimovich 
Cc: Stephen Brennan 
Cc: Thomas Falcon 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf cs-etm: Don't hard code config attribute when configuring the event

2026-01-15T02:16:32+00:00

These instances of hard coded config attributes are used for configuring
and validating the event options. Use the config attribute that's
published by the driver by replacing the open coded operations with
evsel__get_config_val() and evsel__set_config_if_unset().

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: James Clark 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Mike Leach 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf cs-etm: Don't use hard coded config bits when setting up TRCCONFIGR

2026-01-15T02:16:22+00:00

Perf only looks at attr.config when determining what was programmed into
TRCCONFIGR. These bits could theoretically be in any of the config
fields. Use the evsel__get_config_val() helper so it's agnostic to
which config field they are in.

The kernel will also stop publishing the TRCCONFIGR register bits in a
header [1] so preempt that by defining them here.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20251128-james-cs-syncfreq-v8-10-4d319764cc58@linaro.org/

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan 
Signed-off-by: James Clark 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Mike Leach 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo