linux-toradex.git/tools/perf, branch v6.19-rc2

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

2025-12-07T15:07:02+00:00

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
...

perf stat: Improve handling of termination by signal

2025-12-04T23:44:39+00:00

When interrupting perf stat in repeat mode with a signal the signal is
passed to the child process but the repeat doesn't terminate:
```
$ perf stat -v --null --repeat 10 sleep 1
Control descriptor is not initialized
[ perf stat: executing run #1 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #2 ... ]
^Csleep: Interrupt
[ perf stat: executing run #3 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #4 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #5 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #6 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #7 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #8 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #9 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #10 ... ]

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1' (10 runs):

            0.9500 +- 0.0512 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  5.39% )

0.01user 0.02system 0:09.53elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 18940maxresident)k
29944inputs+0outputs (0major+2629minor)pagefaults 0swaps
```

Terminate the repeated run and give a reasonable exit value:
```
$ perf stat -v --null --repeat 10 sleep 1
Control descriptor is not initialized
[ perf stat: executing run #1 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #2 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #3 ... ]
^Csleep: Interrupt

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1' (10 runs):

             0.680 +- 0.321 seconds time elapsed  ( +- 47.16% )

Command exited with non-zero status 130
0.00user 0.01system 0:02.05elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 70688maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+5002minor)pagefaults 0swaps
```

Note, this also changes the exit value for non-repeat runs when
interrupted by a signal.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aS5wjmbAM9ka3M2g@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Tested-by: Thomas Richter 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tests stat: Add test for error for an offline CPU

2025-12-04T23:42:29+00:00

Add a test that if an offline CPU is requested perf stat will fail.

  $ perf test -vv "perf stat tests"
  101: perf stat tests:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 46965
  Basic stat command test
  Basic stat command test [Success]
  Null stat command test
  Null stat command test [Success]
  Offline CPU stat command test (cpu 8)
  Offline CPU stat command test [Success]
  stat record and report test
  stat record and report test [Success]
  stat record and script test
  stat record and script test [Success]
  stat repeat weak groups test
  stat repeat weak groups test [Success]
  Topdown event group test
  Topdown event group test [Success]
  Topdown weak groups test
  Topdown weak groups test [Skipped event parsing failed]
  cputype test
  cputype test [Success]
  hybrid test
  hybrid test [Success]
  ---- end(0) ----
  101: perf stat tests                                                 : Ok

Reported-by: Thomas Richter 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/94313b82-888b-4f42-9fb0-4585f9e90080@linux.ibm.com/
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf stat: When no events, don't report an error if there is none

2025-12-04T08:36:14+00:00

Events may fail to open as no supported CPUs were specified on the
command line. In this case a confusing "error" message of "success"
can be reported. Let's skip the error in that case.

Before:
```
$ perf stat -C2048 -e cycles -- true
WARNING: A requested CPU in '2048' is not supported by PMU 'cpu' (CPUs 0-7) for event 'cycles'
Error:
No supported events found.
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 0 (Success) for event (cpu/unknown-hardware/).
"dmesg | grep -i perf" may provide additional information.
```

After:
```
$ perf stat -C2048 -e cycles -- true
WARNING: A requested CPU in '2048' is not supported by PMU 'cpu' (CPUs 0-7) for event 'cycles'
Error:
No supported events found.
```

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Tested-by: Thomas Richter 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tests stat: Add "--null" coverage

2025-12-04T08:36:14+00:00

Ensure "--null" does a minimal run.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/aSwt7yzFjVJCEmVp@gmail.com/
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Tested-by: Thomas Richter 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf cpumap: Add "any" CPU handling to cpu_map__snprint_mask

2025-12-04T08:36:14+00:00

If the perf_cpu_map is empty or is just the any CPU value, then early
return. Don't process the "any" CPU when creating the bitmap.

Tested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Tested-by: Thomas Richter 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf stat: Allow no events to open if this is a "--null" run

2025-12-04T08:36:14+00:00

It is intended that a "--null" run doesn't open any events.

Fixes: 2cc7aa995ce9 ("perf stat: Refactor retry/skip/fatal error handling")
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Tested-by: Thomas Richter 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

Merge tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2025-12-04T01:24:33+00:00

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core & protocols:

   - Replace busylock at the Tx queuing layer with a lockless list.

     Resulting in a 300% (4x) improvement on heavy TX workloads, sending
     twice the number of packets per second, for half the cpu cycles.

   - Allow constantly busy flows to migrate to a more suitable CPU/NIC
     queue.

     Normally we perform queue re-selection when flow comes out of idle,
     but under extreme circumstances the flows may be constantly busy.

     Add sysctl to allow periodic rehashing even if it'd risk packet
     reordering.

   - Optimize the NAPI skb cache, make it larger, use it in more paths.

   - Attempt returning Tx skbs to the originating CPU (like we already
     did for Rx skbs).

   - Various data structure layout and prefetch optimizations from Eric.

   - Remove ktime_get() from the recvmsg() fast path, ktime_get() is
     sadly quite expensive on recent AMD machines.

   - Extend threaded NAPI polling to allow the kthread busy poll for
     packets.

   - Make MPTCP use Rx backlog processing. This lowers the lock
     pressure, improving the Rx performance.

   - Support memcg accounting of MPTCP socket memory.

   - Allow admin to opt sockets out of global protocol memory accounting
     (using a sysctl or BPF-based policy). The global limits are a poor
     fit for modern container workloads, where limits are imposed using
     cgroups.

   - Improve heuristics for when to kick off AF_UNIX garbage collection.

   - Allow users to control TCP SACK compression, and default to 33% of
     RTT.

   - Add tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt sysctl to let datacenter users avoid
     unnecessarily aggressive rcvbuf growth and overshot when the
     connection RTT is low.

   - Preserve skb metadata space across skb_push / skb_pull operations.

   - Support for IPIP encapsulation in the nftables flowtable offload.

   - Support appending IP interface information to ICMP messages (RFC
     5837).

   - Support setting max record size in TLS (RFC 8449).

   - Remove taking rtnl_lock from RTM_GETNEIGHTBL and RTM_SETNEIGHTBL.

   - Use a dedicated lock (and RCU) in MPLS, instead of rtnl_lock.

   - Let users configure the number of write buffers in SMC.

   - Add new struct sockaddr_unsized for sockaddr of unknown length,
     from Kees.

   - Some conversions away from the crypto_ahash API, from Eric Biggers.

   - Some preparations for slimming down struct page.

   - YAML Netlink protocol spec for WireGuard.

   - Add a tool on top of YAML Netlink specs/lib for reporting commonly
     computed derived statistics and summarized system state.

  Driver API:

   - Add CAN XL support to the CAN Netlink interface.

   - Add uAPI for reporting PHY Mean Square Error (MSE) diagnostics, as
     defined by the OPEN Alliance's "Advanced diagnostic features for
     100BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHYs" specification.

   - Add DPLL phase-adjust-gran pin attribute (and implement it in
     zl3073x).

   - Refactor xfrm_input lock to reduce contention when NIC offloads
     IPsec and performs RSS.

   - Add info to devlink params whether the current setting is the
     default or a user override. Allow resetting back to default.

   - Add standard device stats for PSP crypto offload.

   - Leverage DSA frame broadcast to implement simple HSR frame
     duplication for a lot of switches without dedicated HSR offload.

   - Add uAPI defines for 1.6Tbps link modes.

  Device drivers:

   - Add Motorcomm YT921x gigabit Ethernet switch support.

   - Add MUCSE driver for N500/N210 1GbE NIC series.

   - Convert drivers to support dedicated ops for timestamping control,
     and away from the direct IOCTL handling. While at it support GET
     operations for PHY timestamping.

   - Add (and convert most drivers to) a dedicated ethtool callback for
     reading the Rx ring count.

   - Significant refactoring efforts in the STMMAC driver, which
     supports Synopsys turn-key MAC IP integrated into a ton of SoCs.

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support PPS in/out on all pins
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - ice: implement standard ethtool and timestamping stats
         - i40e: support setting the max number of MAC addresses per VF
         - iavf: support RSS of GTP tunnels for 5G and LTE deployments
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - reduce downtime on interface reconfiguration
         - disable being an XDP redirect target by default (same as
           other drivers) to avoid wasting resources if feature is
           unused
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - add support for Linux-managed PCS on 25G, 50G, and 100G links
      - Wangxun:
         - support Rx descriptor merge, and Tx head writeback
         - support Rx coalescing offload
         - support 25G SPF and 40G QSFP modules

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - Google (gve):
         - allow ethtool to configure rx_buf_len
         - implement XDP HW RX Timestamping support for DQ descriptor
           format
      - Microsoft vNIC (mana):
         - support HW link state events
         - handle hardware recovery events when probing the device

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - usbnet: add support for Byte Queue Limits (BQL)
      - AMD (amd-xgbe):
         - add device selftests
      - NXP (enetc):
         - add i.MX94 support
      - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
         - bcmasp: add support for PHY-based Wake-on-LAN
      - Broadcom switches (b53):
         - support port isolation
         - support BCM5389/97/98 and BCM63XX ARL formats
      - Lantiq/MaxLinear switches:
         - support bridge FDB entries on the CPU port
         - use regmap for register access
         - allow user to enable/disable learning
         - support Energy Efficient Ethernet
         - support configuring RMII clock delays
         - add tagging driver for MaxLinear GSW1xx switches
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - support using the HW clock in free running mode
         - add Eswin EIC7700 support
         - add Rockchip RK3506 support
         - add Altera Agilex5 support
      - Cadence (macb):
         - cleanup and consolidate descriptor and DMA address handling
         - add EyeQ5 support
      - TI:
         - icssg-prueth: support AF_XDP
      - Airoha access points:
         - add missing Ethernet stats and link state callback
         - add AN7583 support
         - support out-of-order Tx completion processing
      - Power over Ethernet:
         - pd692x0: preserve PSE configuration across reboots
         - add support for TPS23881B devices

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Open Alliance OATC14 10BASE-T1S PHY cable diagnostic support
      - Support 50G SerDes and 100G interfaces in Linux-managed PHYs
      - micrel:
         - support for non PTP SKUs of lan8814
         - enable in-band auto-negotiation on lan8814
      - realtek:
         - cable testing support on RTL8224
         - interrupt support on RTL8221B
      - motorcomm: support for PHY LEDs on YT853
      - microchip: support for LAN867X Rev.D0 PHYs w/ SQI and cable diag
      - mscc: support for PHY LED control

   - CAN drivers:
      - m_can: add support for optional reset and system wake up
      - remove can_change_mtu() obsoleted by core handling
      - mcp251xfd: support GPIO controller functionality

   - Bluetooth:
      - add initial support for PASTa

   - WiFi:
      - split ieee80211.h file, it's way too big
      - improvements in VHT radiotap reporting, S1G, Channel Switch
        Announcement handling, rate tracking in mesh networks
      - improve multi-radio monitor mode support, and add a cfg80211
        debugfs interface for it
      - HT action frame handling on 6 GHz
      - initial chanctx work towards NAN
      - MU-MIMO sniffer improvements

   - WiFi drivers:
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - support USB devices RTL8852AU and RTL8852CU
         - initial work for RTL8922DE
         - improved injection support
      - Intel:
         - iwlwifi: new sniffer API support
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - WED support for >32-bit DMA
         - airoha NPU support
         - regdomain improvements
         - continued WiFi7/MLO work
      - Qualcomm/Atheros:
         - ath10k: factory test support
         - ath11k: TX power insertion support
         - ath12k: BSS color change support
         - ath12k: statistics improvements
      - brcmfmac: Acer A1 840 tablet quirk
      - rtl8xxxu: 40 MHz connection fixes/support"

* tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1381 commits)
  net: page_pool: sanitise allocation order
  net: page pool: xa init with destroy on pp init
  net/mlx5e: Support XDP target xmit with dummy program
  net/mlx5e: Update XDP features in switch channels
  selftests/tc-testing: Test CAKE scheduler when enqueue drops packets
  net/sched: sch_cake: Fix incorrect qlen reduction in cake_drop
  wireguard: netlink: generate netlink code
  wireguard: uapi: generate header with ynl-gen
  wireguard: uapi: move flag enums
  wireguard: uapi: move enum wg_cmd
  wireguard: netlink: add YNL specification
  selftests: drv-net: Fix tolerance calculation in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
  selftests: drv-net: Fix and clarify TC bandwidth split in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
  selftests: drv-net: Set shell=True for sysfs writes in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
  selftests: drv-net: Use Iperf3Runner in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
  selftests: drv-net: introduce Iperf3Runner for measurement use cases
  selftests: drv-net: Add devlink_rate_tc_bw.py to TEST_PROGS
  net: ps3_gelic_net: Use napi_alloc_skb() and napi_gro_receive()
  Documentation: net: dsa: mention simple HSR offload helpers
  Documentation: net: dsa: mention availability of RedBox
  ...

perf test kvm: Add some basic perf kvm test coverage

2025-12-03T19:07:47+00:00

Setup qemu with KVM then run kvm stat and some host
recording/reporting/build-id tests.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tests evlist: Add basic evlist test

2025-12-03T19:07:47+00:00

Add test that evlist reports expected events from perf record.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim