linux/tools/lib, branch v6.15

perf tools: Fix in-source libperf build

2025-04-29T19:32:31Z

When libperf is built alone in-source, $(OUTPUT) isn't set. This causes the generated uapi path to resolve to '/../arch' which results in a permissions error: mkdir: cannot create directory '/../arch': Permission denied Fix it by removing the preceding '/..' which means that it gets generated either in the tools/lib/perf part of the tree or the OUTPUT folder. Some other rules that rely on OUTPUT further refine this conditionally depending on whether it's an in-source or out-of-source build, but I don't think we need the extra complexity here. And this rule is slightly different to others because the header is needed by both libperf and Perf. This is further complicated by the fact that Perf always passes O=... to libperf even for in source builds, meaning that OUTPUT isn't set consistently between projects. Because we're no longer going one level up to try to generate the file in the tools/ folder, Perf's include rule needs to descend into libperf. Also fix the clean rule while we're here. Reported-by: Thorsten Leemhuis Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/7703f88e-ccb7-4c98-9da4-8aad224e780f@leemhuis.info/ Fixes: bfb713ea53c7 ("perf tools: Fix arm64 build by generating unistd_64.h") Signed-off-by: James Clark Tested-by: Thorsten Leemhuis Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250429-james-perf-fix-libperf-in-source-build-v1-1-a1a827ac15e5@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tools: Fix arm64 build by generating unistd_64.h

2025-04-23T15:57:12Z

Since pulling in the kernel changes in commit 22f72088ffe6 ("tools headers: Update the syscall table with the kernel sources"), arm64 is no longer using a generic syscall header and generates one from the syscall table. Therefore we must also generate the syscall header for arm64 before building Perf. Add it as a dependency to libperf which uses one syscall number. Perf uses more, but as libperf is a dependency of Perf it will be generated for both. Future platforms that need this will have to add their own syscall-y targets in libperf manually. Unfortunately the arch specific files that do this (e.g. arch/arm64/include/asm/Kbuild) can't easily be imported into the Perf build. But Perf only needs a subset of the generated files anyway, so redefining them is probably the correct thing to do. Fixes: 22f72088ffe6 ("tools headers: Update the syscall table with the kernel sources") Signed-off-by: James Clark Tested-by: Harshit Mogalapalli Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250417-james-perf-fix-gen-syscall-v1-1-1d268c923901@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-04-01T17:06:52Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel reservation" from Sourabh Jain changes powerpc's kexec code to use more of the generic layers. - The series "get_maintainer: report subsystem status separately" from Vlastimil Babka makes some long-requested improvements to the get_maintainer output. - The series "ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t" from Sebastian Siewior cleans up and optimizing the refcounting in the ucount code. - The series "reboot: support runtime configuration of emergency hw_protection action" from Ahmad Fatoum improves the ability for a driver to perform an emergency system shutdown or reboot. - The series "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() part two" from Easwar Hariharan performs further migrations from msecs_to_jiffies() to secs_to_jiffies(). - The series "lib/interval_tree: add some test cases and cleanup" from Wei Yang permits more userspace testing of kernel library code, adds some more tests and performs some cleanups. - The series "hung_task: Dump the blocking task stacktrace" from Masami Hiramatsu arranges for the hung_task detector to dump the stack of the blocking task and not just that of the blocked task. - The series "resource: Split and use DEFINE_RES*() macros" from Andy Shevchenko provides some cleanups to the resource definition macros. - Plus the usual shower of singleton patches - please see the individual changelogs for details. * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits) mailmap: consolidate email addresses of Alexander Sverdlin fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan() relay: use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES() resource: replace open coded variants of DEFINE_RES_*_NAMED() resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() resource: split DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() out of DEFINE_RES_NAMED() samples: add hung_task detector mutex blocking sample hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on mutex kexec_core: accept unaccepted kexec segments' destination addresses watchdog/perf: optimize bytes copied and remove manual NUL-termination lib/interval_tree: fix the comment of interval_tree_span_iter_next_gap() lib/interval_tree: skip the check before go to the right subtree lib/interval_tree: add test case for span iteration lib/interval_tree: add test case for interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers lib/rbtree: add random seed lib/rbtree: split tests lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 ...

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.15-2025-03-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

2025-03-31T15:52:33Z

Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim: "perf record: - Introduce latency profiling using scheduler information. The latency profiling is to show impacts on wall-time rather than cpu-time. By tracking context switches, it can weight samples and find which part of the code contributed more to the execution latency. The value (period) of the sample is weighted by dividing it by the number of parallel execution at the moment. The parallelism is tracked in perf report with sched-switch records. This will reduce the portion that are run in parallel and in turn increase the portion of serial executions. For now, it's limited to profile processes, IOW system-wide profiling is not supported. You can add --latency option to enable this. $ perf record --latency -- make -C tools/perf I've run the above command for perf build which adds -j option to make with the number of CPUs in the system internally. Normally it'd show something like below: $ perf report -F overhead,comm ... # # Overhead Command # ........ ............... # 78.97% cc1 6.54% python3 4.21% shellcheck 3.28% ld 1.80% as 1.37% cc1plus 0.80% sh 0.62% clang 0.56% gcc 0.44% perl 0.39% make ... The cc1 takes around 80% of the overhead as it's the actual compiler. However it runs in parallel so its contribution to latency may be less than that. Now, perf report will show both overhead and latency (if --latency was given at record time) like below: $ perf report -s comm ... # # Overhead Latency Command # ........ ........ ............... # 78.97% 48.66% cc1 6.54% 25.68% python3 4.21% 0.39% shellcheck 3.28% 13.70% ld 1.80% 2.56% as 1.37% 3.08% cc1plus 0.80% 0.98% sh 0.62% 0.61% clang 0.56% 0.33% gcc 0.44% 1.71% perl 0.39% 0.83% make ... You can see latency of cc1 goes down to around 50% and python3 and ld contribute a lot more than their overhead. You can use --latency option in perf report to get the same result but ordered by latency. $ perf report --latency -s comm perf report: - As a side effect of the latency profiling work, it adds a new output field 'latency' and a sort key 'parallelism'. The below is a result from my system with 64 CPUs. The build was well-parallelized but contained some serial portions. $ perf report -s parallelism ... # # Overhead Latency Parallelism # ........ ........ ........... # 16.95% 1.54% 62 13.38% 1.24% 61 12.50% 70.47% 1 11.81% 1.06% 63 7.59% 0.71% 60 4.33% 12.20% 2 3.41% 0.33% 59 2.05% 0.18% 64 1.75% 1.09% 9 1.64% 1.85% 5 ... - Support Feodra mini-debuginfo which is a LZMA compressed symbol table inside ".gnu_debugdata" ELF section. perf annotate: - Add --code-with-type option to enable data-type profiling with the usual annotate output. Instead of focusing on data structure, it shows code annotation together with data type it accesses in case the instruction refers to a memory location (and it was able to resolve the target data type). Currently it only works with --stdio. $ perf annotate --stdio --code-with-type ... Percent | Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux for cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=30/pp (18 samples, percent: local period) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : 0 0xffffffff81050610 <__fdget>: 0.00 : ffffffff81050610: callq 0xffffffff81c01b80 <__fentry__> # data-type: (stack operation) 0.00 : ffffffff81050615: pushq %rbp # data-type: (stack operation) 0.00 : ffffffff81050616: movq %rsp, %rbp 0.00 : ffffffff81050619: pushq %r15 # data-type: (stack operation) 0.00 : ffffffff8105061b: pushq %r14 # data-type: (stack operation) 0.00 : ffffffff8105061d: pushq %rbx # data-type: (stack operation) 0.00 : ffffffff8105061e: subq $0x10, %rsp 0.00 : ffffffff81050622: movl %edi, %ebx 0.00 : ffffffff81050624: movq %gs:0x7efc4814(%rip), %rax # 0x14e40 # data-type: struct task_struct* +0 0.00 : ffffffff8105062c: movq 0x8d0(%rax), %r14 # data-type: struct task_struct +0x8d0 (files) 0.00 : ffffffff81050633: movl (%r14), %eax # data-type: struct files_struct +0 (count.counter) 0.00 : ffffffff81050636: cmpl $0x1, %eax 0.00 : ffffffff81050639: je 0xffffffff810506a9 <__fdget+0x99> 0.00 : ffffffff8105063b: movq 0x20(%r14), %rcx # data-type: struct files_struct +0x20 (fdt) 0.00 : ffffffff8105063f: movl (%rcx), %eax # data-type: struct fdtable +0 (max_fds) 0.00 : ffffffff81050641: cmpl %ebx, %eax 0.00 : ffffffff81050643: jbe 0xffffffff810506ef <__fdget+0xdf> 0.00 : ffffffff81050649: movl %ebx, %r15d 5.56 : ffffffff8105064c: movq 0x8(%rcx), %rdx # data-type: struct fdtable +0x8 (fd) ... The "# data-type:" part was added with this change. The first few entries are not very interesting. But later you can it accesses a couple of fields in the task_struct, files_struct and fdtable. perf trace: - Support syscall tracing for different ABI. For example it can trace system calls for 32-bit applications on 64-bit kernel transparently. - Add --summary-mode=total option to show global syscall summary. The default is 'thread' to show per-thread syscall summary. Python support: - Add more interfaces to 'perf' module to parse events, and config, enable or disable the event list properly so that it can implement basic functionalities purely in Python. There is an example code for these new interfaces in python/tracepoint.py. - Add mypy and pylint support to enable build time checking. Fix some code based on the findings from these tools. Internals: - Introduce io_dir__readdir() API to make directory traveral (usually for proc or sysfs) efficient with less memory footprint. JSON vendor events: - Add events and metrics for ARM Neoverse N3 and V3 - Update events and metrics on various Intel CPUs - Add/update events for a number of SiFive processors" * tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.15-2025-03-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (229 commits) perf bpf-filter: Fix a parsing error with comma perf report: Fix a memory leak for perf_env on AMD perf trace: Fix wrong size to bpf_map__update_elem call perf tools: annotate asm_pure_loop.S perf python: Fix setup.py mypy errors perf test: Address attr.py mypy error perf build: Add pylint build tests perf build: Add mypy build tests perf build: Rename TEST_LOGS to SHELL_TEST_LOGS tools/build: Don't pass test log files to linker perf bench sched pipe: fix enforced blocking reads in worker_thread perf tools: Fix is_compat_mode build break in ppc64 perf build: filter all combinations of -flto for libperl perf vendor events arm64 AmpereOneX: Fix frontend_bound calculation perf vendor events arm64: AmpereOne/AmpereOneX: Mark LD_RETIRED impacted by errata perf trace: Fix evlist memory leak perf trace: Fix BTF memory leak perf trace: Make syscall table stable perf syscalltbl: Mask off ABI type for MIPS system calls perf build: Remove Makefile.syscalls ...

Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

2025-03-30T19:43:03Z

Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: "For this merge window we're splitting BPF pull request into three for higher visibility: main changes, res_spin_lock, try_alloc_pages. These are the main BPF changes: - Add DFA-based live registers analysis to improve verification of programs with loops (Eduard Zingerman) - Introduce load_acquire and store_release BPF instructions and add x86, arm64 JIT support (Peilin Ye) - Fix loop detection logic in the verifier (Eduard Zingerman) - Drop unnecesary lock in bpf_map_inc_not_zero() (Eric Dumazet) - Add kfunc for populating cpumask bits (Emil Tsalapatis) - Convert various shell based tests to selftests/bpf/test_progs format (Bastien Curutchet) - Allow passing referenced kptrs into struct_ops callbacks (Amery Hung) - Add a flag to LSM bpf hook to facilitate bpf program signing (Blaise Boscaccy) - Track arena arguments in kfuncs (Ihor Solodrai) - Add copy_remote_vm_str() helper for reading strings from remote VM and bpf_copy_from_user_task_str() kfunc (Jordan Rome) - Add support for timed may_goto instruction (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Allow bpf_get_netns_cookie() int cgroup_skb programs (Mahe Tardy) - Reduce bpf_cgrp_storage_busy false positives when accessing cgroup local storage (Martin KaFai Lau) - Introduce bpf_dynptr_copy() kfunc (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Allow retrieving BTF data with BTF token (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Add BPF kfuncs to set and get xattrs with 'security.bpf.' prefix (Song Liu) - Reject attaching programs to noreturn functions (Yafang Shao) - Introduce pre-order traversal of cgroup bpf programs (Yonghong Song)" * tag 'bpf-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (186 commits) selftests/bpf: Add selftests for load-acquire/store-release when register number is invalid bpf: Fix out-of-bounds read in check_atomic_load/store() libbpf: Add namespace for errstr making it libbpf_errstr bpf: Add struct_ops context information to struct bpf_prog_aux selftests/bpf: Sanitize pointer prior fclose() selftests/bpf: Migrate test_xdp_vlan.sh into test_progs selftests/bpf: test_xdp_vlan: Rename BPF sections bpf: clarify a misleading verifier error message selftests/bpf: Add selftest for attaching fexit to __noreturn functions bpf: Reject attaching fexit/fmod_ret to __noreturn functions bpf: Only fails the busy counter check in bpf_cgrp_storage_get if it creates storage bpf: Make perf_event_read_output accessible in all program types. bpftool: Using the right format specifiers bpftool: Add -Wformat-signedness flag to detect format errors selftests/bpf: Test freplace from user namespace libbpf: Pass BPF token from find_prog_btf_id to BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID bpf: Return prog btf_id without capable check bpf: BPF token support for BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID bpf, x86: Fix objtool warning for timed may_goto bpf: Check map->record at the beginning of check_and_free_fields() ...

libbpf: Add namespace for errstr making it libbpf_errstr

2025-03-21T20:44:54Z

When statically linking symbols can be replaced with those from other statically linked libraries depending on the link order and the hoped for "multiple definition" error may not appear. To avoid conflicts it is good practice to namespace symbols, this change renames errstr to libbpf_errstr. To avoid churn a #define is used to turn use of errstr(err) to libbpf_errstr(err). Fixes: 1633a83bf993 ("libbpf: Introduce errstr() for stringifying errno") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250320222439.1350187-1-irogers@google.com

libperf: Don't remove -g when EXTRA_CFLAGS are used

2025-03-20T00:00:39Z

When using EXTRA_CFLAGS, for example "EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DREFCNT_CHECKING=1", this construct stops setting -g which you'd expect would not be affected by adding extra flags. Additionally, EXTRA_CFLAGS should be the last thing to be appended so that it can be used to undo any defaults. And no condition is required, just += appends to any existing CFLAGS and also appends or doesn't append EXTRA_CFLAGS if they are or aren't set. It's not clear why DEBUG=1 is required for -g in Perf when in libperf it's always on, but I don't think we need to change that behavior now because someone may be depending on it. Signed-off-by: James Clark Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319114009.417865-1-james.clark@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

libbpf: Pass BPF token from find_prog_btf_id to BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID

2025-03-17T20:45:12Z

Pass BPF token from bpf_program__set_attach_target to BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID bpf command. When freplace program attaches to target program, it needs to look up for BTF of the target, this may require BPF token, if, for example, running from user namespace. Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Acked-by: Yonghong Song Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250317174039.161275-4-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com

lib/interval_tree: add test case for interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers

2025-03-17T19:17:00Z

Verify interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers could find intersection ranges as expected. [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: some of tools/ uses -Wno-unused-parameter] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250312113612.31ac808e@canb.auug.org.au Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250310074938.26756-5-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure

2025-03-17T19:17:00Z

Patch series "lib/interval_tree: add some test cases and cleanup", v2. Since rbtree/augmented tree/interval tree share similar data structure, besides new cases for interval tree, this patch set also does cleanup for others. This patch (of 7): Currently we have some tests for rbtree related data structure, e.g. rbtree, augmented rbtree, interval tree, in lib/ as kernel module. To facilitate the test and debug for those fundamental data structure, this patch enable those tests in userland. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250310074938.26756-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250310074938.26756-2-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton