linux/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build, branch master

perf regs: Remove __weak attributive arch_sdt_arg_parse_op() function

2026-02-06T15:16:12Z

In line with the previous patch, the __weak arch_sdt_arg_parse_op() function is removed. Architectural-specific implementations in the arch/ directory are now converted into sub-functions within the util/perf-regs-arch/ directory. The perf_sdt_arg_parse_op() function will call these sub-functions based on the EM_HOST. This change enables cross-architecture calls to arch_sdt_arg_parse_op(). 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 powerpc and x86 Build files wrt removing perf_regs.o ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf kvm stat: Remove use of the arch directory

2026-02-03T21:01:27Z

`perf kvm stat` supports record and report options. By using the arch directory a report for a different machine type cannot be supported. Move the kvm-stat code out of the arch directory and into util/kvm-stat-arch following the pattern of perf-regs and dwarf-regs. Avoid duplicate symbols by renaming functions to have the architecture name within them. For global variables, wrap them in an architecture specific function. Selecting the architecture to use with `perf kvm stat` is selected by EM_HOST, ie no different than before the change. Later the ELF machine can be determined from the session or a header feature (ie EM_HOST at the time of the record). The build and #define HAVE_KVM_STAT_SUPPORT is now redundant so remove across Makefiles and in the build. Opportunistically constify architectural structs and arrays. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Aditya Bodkhe Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Jones Cc: Anubhav Shelat Cc: Anup Patel Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Blake Jones Cc: Chun-Tse Shao Cc: Dapeng Mi Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quan Zhou Cc: Shimin Guo Cc: Swapnil Sapkal Cc: Thomas Falcon Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yunseong Kim Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Fix script_fetch_insn for more than just x86

2026-01-27T04:35:22Z

The script_fetch_insn code was only supported on natively running x86. Implement a crude elf_machine_max_instruction_length function and use to give an instruction length on more than just x86. Use the ELF machine to determine the length to use to support cross-architecture development. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Shimin Guo Cc: Yujie Liu [ Conditionally define EM_CSKY and EM_LOONGARCH for older distros ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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

2026-01-20T16:00:39Z

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 build: Remove NO_AUXTRACE build option

2025-11-14T07:03:11Z

The NO_AUXTRACE build option was used when the __get_cpuid feature test failed or if it was provided on the command line. The option no longer avoids a dependency on a library and so having the option is just adding complexity to the code base. Remove the option CONFIG_AUXTRACE from Build files and HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT by assuming it is always defined. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf x86: Define arch_fetch_insn in NO_AUXTRACE builds

2024-12-18T19:24:33Z

archinsn.c containing arch_fetch_insn was only enabled with CONFIG_AUXTRACE, but this meant that a NO_AUXTRACE build on x86 would use the empty weak version of arch_fetch_insn - weak symbols are a frequent source of errors like this and are outside of the C specification. Change it so that archinsn.c is always built on x86 and make the weak symbol empty version of arch_fetch_insn a strong one guarded by ifdefs. arch_fetch_insn on x86 depends on insn_decode which is a function included then built into intel-pt-insn-decoder.c. intel-pt-insn-decoder.c isn't built in a NO_AUXTRACE=1 build. Separate the insn_decode function from intel-pt-insn-decoder.c by just directly compiling the relevant file. Guard this compilation to be for either always on x86 (because of the use in arch_fetch_insn) or when auxtrace is enabled. Apply the CFLAGS overrides as necessary, reducing the amount of code where warnings are disabled. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Adrian Hunter Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Dapeng Mi Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Michael Petlan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Veronika Molnarova Cc: Weilin Wang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241119011644.971342-13-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf dwarf-regs: Move x86 dwarf-regs out of arch

2024-11-09T16:39:13Z

Move arch/x86/util/dwarf-regs.c to util/dwarf-regs-x86.c and compile in unconditionally. To avoid get_arch_regnum being duplicated, rename to get_x86_regnum and add to get_dwarf_regnum switch. For get_arch_regstr, this was unused on x86 unless the machine type was EM_NONE. Map that case to EM_HOST and remove get_arch_regstr from dwarf-regs-x86.c. Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Anup Patel Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Shenlin Liang Cc: Nick Terrell Cc: Guilherme Amadio Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson Cc: Changbin Du Cc: Alexander Lobakin Cc: Przemek Kitszel Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Will Deacon Cc: James Clark Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Chen Pei Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Aditya Gupta Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org Cc: Bibo Mao Cc: John Garry Cc: Atish Patra Cc: Dima Kogan Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241108234606.429459-8-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tools: Move x86__is_amd_cpu() to util/env.c

2024-10-22T16:55:07Z

It can be called from non-x86 platform so let's move it to the general util directory. Also add a new helper perf_env__is_x86_amd_cpu() so that it can be called with an existing perf_env as well. Reviewed-by: James Clark Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria Acked-by: Kan Liang Cc: James Clark Cc: Atish Patra Cc: Mingwei Zhang Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016062359.264929-7-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf build: Rename CONFIG_DWARF to CONFIG_LIBDW

2024-10-18T17:17:40Z

In Makefile.config for unwinding the name dwarf implies either libunwind or libdw. Make it clearer that CONFIG_DWARF is really just defined when libdw is present by renaming to CONFIG_LIBDW. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Tested-by: Leo Yan Cc: Anup Patel Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Shenlin Liang Cc: Nick Terrell Cc: Guilherme Amadio Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson Cc: Changbin Du Cc: Alexander Lobakin Cc: Przemek Kitszel Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Cc: Will Deacon Cc: James Clark Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Chen Pei Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Aditya Gupta Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org Cc: Bibo Mao Cc: John Garry Cc: Atish Patra Cc: Dima Kogan Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241017001354.56973-12-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf util: Make util its own library

2024-06-26T18:07:42Z

Make the util directory into its own library. This is done to avoid compiling code twice, once for the perf tool and once for the perf python module. For convenience: arch/common.c scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.c scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.c are made part of this library. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: James Clark Cc: Suzuki K Poulose Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Nick Terrell Cc: Gary Guo Cc: Alex Gaynor Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho Cc: Ze Gao Cc: Alice Ryhl Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Yicong Yang Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: John Garry Cc: Benno Lossin Cc: Björn Roy Baron Cc: Andreas Hindborg Cc: Paul Walmsley Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240625214117.953777-7-irogers@google.com