linux/tools/perf
Linus Torvalds 4d84667627 Performance events changes for v7.0:
x86 PMU driver updates:
 
  - Add support for the core PMU for Intel Diamond Rapids (DMR) CPUs.
    Compared to previous iterations of the Intel PMU code, there's
    been a lot of changes, which center around three main areas:
 
     - Introduce the OFF-MODULE RESPONSE (OMR) facility to
       replace the Off-Core Response (OCR) facility
 
     - New PEBS data source encoding layout
 
     - Support the new "RDPMC user disable" feature
 
    (Dapeng Mi)
 
  - Likewise, a large series adds uncore PMU support for
    Intel Diamond Rapids (DMR) CPUs, which center around these
    four main areas:
 
     - DMR may have two Integrated I/O and Memory Hub (IMH) dies,
       separate from the compute tile (CBB) dies.  Each CBB and
       each IMH die has its own discovery domain.
 
     - Unlike prior CPUs that retrieve the global discovery table
       portal exclusively via PCI or MSR, DMR uses PCI for IMH PMON
       discovery and MSR for CBB PMON discovery.
 
     - DMR introduces several new PMON types: SCA, HAMVF, D2D_ULA,
       UBR, PCIE4, CRS, CPC, ITC, OTC, CMS, and PCIE6.
 
     - IIO free-running counters in DMR are MMIO-based, unlike SPR.
 
    (Zide Chen)
 
  - Also add support for Add missing PMON units for Intel Panther Lake,
    and support Nova Lake (NVL), which largely maps to Panther Lake.
    (Zide Chen)
 
  - KVM integration: Add support for mediated vPMUs (by Kan Liang
    and Sean Christopherson, with fixes and cleanups by Peter Zijlstra,
    Sandipan Das and Mingwei Zhang)
 
  - Add Intel cstate driver to support for Wildcat Lake (WCL)
    CPUs, which are a low-power variant of Panther Lake.
    (Zide Chen)
 
  - Add core, cstate and MSR PMU support for the Airmont NP Intel CPU
    (aka MaxLinear Lightning Mountain), which maps to the existing
    Airmont code. (Martin Schiller)
 
 Performance enhancements:
 
  - core: Speed up kexec shutdown by avoiding unnecessary
    cross CPU calls. (Jan H. Schönherr)
 
  - core: Fix slow perf_event_task_exit() with LBR callstacks
    (Namhyung Kim)
 
 User-space stack unwinding support:
 
  - Various cleanups and refactorings in preparation to generalize
    the unwinding code for other architectures. (Jens Remus)
 
 Uprobes updates:
 
  - Transition from kmap_atomic to kmap_local_page (Keke Ming)
 
  - Fix incorrect lockdep condition in filter_chain() (Breno Leitao)
 
  - Fix XOL allocation failure for 32-bit tasks (Oleg Nesterov)
 
 Misc fixes and cleanups:
 
  - s390: Remove kvm_types.h from Kbuild (Randy Dunlap)
 
  - x86/intel/uncore: Convert comma to semicolon (Chen Ni)
 
  - x86/uncore: Clean up const mismatch (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
 
  - x86/ibs: Fix typo in dc_l2tlb_miss comment (Xiang-Bin Shi)
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull performance event updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "x86 PMU driver updates:

   - Add support for the core PMU for Intel Diamond Rapids (DMR) CPUs
     (Dapeng Mi)

     Compared to previous iterations of the Intel PMU code, there's been
     a lot of changes, which center around three main areas:

      - Introduce the OFF-MODULE RESPONSE (OMR) facility to replace the
        Off-Core Response (OCR) facility

      - New PEBS data source encoding layout

      - Support the new "RDPMC user disable" feature

   - Likewise, a large series adds uncore PMU support for Intel Diamond
     Rapids (DMR) CPUs (Zide Chen)

     This centers around these four main areas:

      - DMR may have two Integrated I/O and Memory Hub (IMH) dies,
        separate from the compute tile (CBB) dies. Each CBB and each IMH
        die has its own discovery domain.

      - Unlike prior CPUs that retrieve the global discovery table
        portal exclusively via PCI or MSR, DMR uses PCI for IMH PMON
        discovery and MSR for CBB PMON discovery.

      - DMR introduces several new PMON types: SCA, HAMVF, D2D_ULA, UBR,
        PCIE4, CRS, CPC, ITC, OTC, CMS, and PCIE6.

      - IIO free-running counters in DMR are MMIO-based, unlike SPR.

   - Also add support for Add missing PMON units for Intel Panther Lake,
     and support Nova Lake (NVL), which largely maps to Panther Lake.
     (Zide Chen)

   - KVM integration: Add support for mediated vPMUs (by Kan Liang and
     Sean Christopherson, with fixes and cleanups by Peter Zijlstra,
     Sandipan Das and Mingwei Zhang)

   - Add Intel cstate driver to support for Wildcat Lake (WCL) CPUs,
     which are a low-power variant of Panther Lake (Zide Chen)

   - Add core, cstate and MSR PMU support for the Airmont NP Intel CPU
     (aka MaxLinear Lightning Mountain), which maps to the existing
     Airmont code (Martin Schiller)

  Performance enhancements:

   - Speed up kexec shutdown by avoiding unnecessary cross CPU calls
     (Jan H. Schönherr)

   - Fix slow perf_event_task_exit() with LBR callstacks (Namhyung Kim)

  User-space stack unwinding support:

   - Various cleanups and refactorings in preparation to generalize the
     unwinding code for other architectures (Jens Remus)

  Uprobes updates:

   - Transition from kmap_atomic to kmap_local_page (Keke Ming)

   - Fix incorrect lockdep condition in filter_chain() (Breno Leitao)

   - Fix XOL allocation failure for 32-bit tasks (Oleg Nesterov)

  Misc fixes and cleanups:

   - s390: Remove kvm_types.h from Kbuild (Randy Dunlap)

   - x86/intel/uncore: Convert comma to semicolon (Chen Ni)

   - x86/uncore: Clean up const mismatch (Greg Kroah-Hartman)

   - x86/ibs: Fix typo in dc_l2tlb_miss comment (Xiang-Bin Shi)"

* tag 'perf-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits)
  s390: remove kvm_types.h from Kbuild
  uprobes: Fix incorrect lockdep condition in filter_chain()
  x86/ibs: Fix typo in dc_l2tlb_miss comment
  x86/uprobes: Fix XOL allocation failure for 32-bit tasks
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Convert comma to semicolon
  perf/x86/intel: Add support for rdpmc user disable feature
  perf/x86: Use macros to replace magic numbers in attr_rdpmc
  perf/x86/intel: Add core PMU support for Novalake
  perf/x86/intel: Add support for PEBS memory auxiliary info field in NVL
  perf/x86/intel: Add core PMU support for DMR
  perf/x86/intel: Add support for PEBS memory auxiliary info field in DMR
  perf/x86/intel: Support the 4 new OMR MSRs introduced in DMR and NVL
  perf/core: Fix slow perf_event_task_exit() with LBR callstacks
  perf/core: Speed up kexec shutdown by avoiding unnecessary cross CPU calls
  uprobes: use kmap_local_page() for temporary page mappings
  arm/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol()
  mips/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol()
  arm64/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol()
  riscv/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol()
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add Nova Lake support
  ...
2026-02-10 12:00:46 -08:00
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arch tools headers: Sync syscall table with kernel sources 2025-12-24 11:43:36 -08:00
bench perf tools: Don't read build-ids from non-regular files 2025-11-26 10:13:38 -08:00
check-header_ignore_hunks/lib perf tools: update expected diff for lib/list_sort.c 2024-11-05 17:12:33 -08:00
dlfilters perf tools: Simplify evsel__add_modifier() 2024-10-22 09:52:11 -07:00
Documentation perf timechart: Add record support for output perf.data path 2025-12-03 11:07:23 -08:00
include/perf perf dso: Move build_id to dso_id 2025-07-25 10:37:56 -07:00
jvmti perf: Fix libjvmti.c sign compare error 2025-06-09 22:12:08 -07:00
pmu-events perf vendor events intel: Update sierraforest events from 1.12 to 1.13 2025-12-03 11:02:07 -08:00
python perf ilist: Be tolerant of reading a metric on the wrong CPU 2025-12-02 16:12:49 -08:00
scripts perf build: Disable thread safety analysis for perl header 2025-10-06 16:49:25 -03:00
tests perf tests top: Make the test exclusive 2025-12-23 10:13:50 -08:00
trace Performance events changes for v7.0: 2026-02-10 12:00:46 -08:00
ui perf auxtrace: Remove errno.h from auxtrace.h and fix transitive dependencies 2025-11-13 23:03:11 -08:00
util Performance events changes for v7.0: 2026-02-10 12:00:46 -08:00
.gitignore perf tools: Remove libtraceevent in .gitignore 2025-07-26 15:38:10 -07:00
Build perf build: Specify shellcheck should use bash 2025-06-30 09:43:06 -07:00
builtin-annotate.c perf tool: Add the perf_tool argument to all callbacks 2025-11-07 13:25:05 -08:00
builtin-bench.c perf bench mem: Add mmap() workloads 2025-09-19 12:43:59 -03:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf symbol: Fix ENOENT case for filename__read_build_id 2025-12-17 07:30:51 -08:00
builtin-buildid-list.c perf machine: Explicitly pass in host perf_env 2025-07-25 10:37:57 -07:00
builtin-c2c.c perf c2c: Clean up some defensive gets and make asan clean 2025-12-03 11:07:46 -08:00
builtin-check.c perf build: Remove NO_AUXTRACE build option 2025-11-13 23:03:11 -08:00
builtin-config.c perf config: Add a function to set one variable in .perfconfig 2025-01-14 15:05:56 -03:00
builtin-daemon.c perf daemon: Fix the build on more 32-bit architectures 2024-08-19 21:44:30 -03:00
builtin-data.c
builtin-diff.c perf sort: Use perf_env to set arch sort keys and header 2025-07-25 10:37:58 -07:00
builtin-evlist.c perf tool: Add the perf_tool argument to all callbacks 2025-11-07 13:25:05 -08:00
builtin-ftrace.c perf: ftrace: add graph tracer options args/retval/retval-hex/retaddr 2025-07-22 17:47:22 -07:00
builtin-help.c perf tools: Remove dependency on libaudit 2025-01-10 10:59:42 -03:00
builtin-inject.c perf tools: Merge deferred user callchains 2025-12-02 21:59:14 -08:00
builtin-kallsyms.c perf machine: Explicitly pass in host perf_env 2025-07-25 10:37:57 -07:00
builtin-kmem.c perf session: Add accessor for session->header.env 2025-07-25 10:37:56 -07:00
builtin-kvm.c perf kvm: Fix debug assertion 2025-12-03 11:07:19 -08:00
builtin-kwork.c perf tools kwork: Add missed memory allocation check and free 2025-10-02 15:30:30 -03:00
builtin-list.c treewide: Update email address 2026-01-11 06:09:11 -10:00
builtin-lock.c perf lock: Fix segfault due to missing kernel map 2025-11-13 17:17:41 -03:00
builtin-mem.c perf auxtrace: Remove errno.h from auxtrace.h and fix transitive dependencies 2025-11-13 23:03:11 -08:00
builtin-probe.c perf build: Rename HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT to HAVE_LIBDW_SUPPORT 2024-10-18 10:17:40 -07:00
builtin-record.c perf build: Remove NO_AUXTRACE build option 2025-11-13 23:03:11 -08:00
builtin-report.c perf tools: Merge deferred user callchains 2025-12-02 21:59:14 -08:00
builtin-sched.c perf sched: Avoid union type punning undefined behavior 2025-10-01 11:22:04 -03:00
builtin-script.c perf tools: Merge deferred user callchains 2025-12-02 21:59:14 -08:00
builtin-stat.c perf stat: Improve handling of termination by signal 2025-12-04 15:44:39 -08:00
builtin-timechart.c perf timechart: Add record support for output perf.data path 2025-12-03 11:07:23 -08:00
builtin-top.c perf top: Use evlist__new_default when no events specified 2025-10-15 23:59:11 +09:00
builtin-trace.c perf trace: Skip internal syscall arguments 2025-11-29 12:23:37 -08:00
builtin-version.c perf check: Share the feature status printing routine with 'perf version' 2025-04-10 10:44:04 -03:00
builtin.h perf check: Allow showing a tip for opt-in features not built into perf 2025-04-10 10:44:42 -03:00
check-headers.sh tools include: Add headers to make tools builds more hermetic 2025-10-02 15:13:19 -03:00
command-list.txt
CREDITS
design.txt
Makefile perf tools: Fix wrong message when running "make JOBS=1" 2024-08-01 12:11:33 -03:00
Makefile.config perf tools: Disable BPF skeleton if no libopenssl found 2025-12-17 05:44:24 -08:00
Makefile.perf [GIT PULL] perf tools changes for v6.19 2025-12-07 07:07:02 -08:00
MANIFEST perf tools: Fix arm64 source package build 2025-05-13 17:26:35 -03:00
perf-archive.sh tools/perf: Add --exclude-buildids option to perf archive command 2025-06-26 15:40:19 -07:00
perf-completion.sh
perf-iostat.sh
perf-read-vdso.c
perf-sys.h
perf.c perf env: Remove global perf_env 2025-07-25 10:37:58 -07:00
perf.h perf: Completely remove possibility to override MAX_NR_CPUS 2025-09-12 10:52:22 -03:00