linux/kernel
Linus Torvalds ddddf9d64f Performance events updates for v6.16:
Core & generic-arch updates:
 
  - Add support for dynamic constraints and propagate it to
    the Intel driver (Kan Liang)
 
  - Fix & enhance driver-specific throttling support (Kan Liang)
 
  - Record sample last_period before updating on the
    x86 and PowerPC platforms (Mark Barnett)
 
  - Make perf_pmu_unregister() usable (Peter Zijlstra)
 
  - Unify perf_event_free_task() / perf_event_exit_task_context()
    (Peter Zijlstra)
 
  - Simplify perf_event_release_kernel() and perf_event_free_task()
    (Peter Zijlstra)
 
  - Allocate non-contiguous AUX pages by default (Yabin Cui)
 
 Uprobes updates:
 
  - Add support to emulate NOP instructions (Jiri Olsa)
 
  - selftests/bpf: Add 5-byte NOP uprobe trigger benchmark (Jiri Olsa)
 
 x86 Intel PMU enhancements:
 
  - Support Intel Auto Counter Reload [ACR] (Kan Liang)
 
  - Add PMU support for Clearwater Forest (Dapeng Mi)
 
  - Arch-PEBS preparatory changes: (Dapeng Mi)
 
    - Parse CPUID archPerfmonExt leaves for non-hybrid CPUs
    - Decouple BTS initialization from PEBS initialization
    - Introduce pairs of PEBS static calls
 
 x86 AMD PMU enhancements:
 
  - Use hrtimer for handling overflows in the AMD uncore driver
    (Sandipan Das)
 
  - Prevent UMC counters from saturating (Sandipan Das)
 
 Fixes and cleanups:
 
  - Fix put_ctx() ordering (Frederic Weisbecker)
 
  - Fix irq work dereferencing garbage (Frederic Weisbecker)
 
  - Misc fixes and cleanups (Changbin Du, Frederic Weisbecker,
    Ian Rogers, Ingo Molnar, Kan Liang, Peter Zijlstra, Qing Wang,
    Sandipan Das, Thorsten Blum)
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull perf events updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core & generic-arch updates:

   - Add support for dynamic constraints and propagate it to the Intel
     driver (Kan Liang)

   - Fix & enhance driver-specific throttling support (Kan Liang)

   - Record sample last_period before updating on the x86 and PowerPC
     platforms (Mark Barnett)

   - Make perf_pmu_unregister() usable (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Unify perf_event_free_task() / perf_event_exit_task_context()
     (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Simplify perf_event_release_kernel() and perf_event_free_task()
     (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Allocate non-contiguous AUX pages by default (Yabin Cui)

  Uprobes updates:

   - Add support to emulate NOP instructions (Jiri Olsa)

   - selftests/bpf: Add 5-byte NOP uprobe trigger benchmark (Jiri Olsa)

  x86 Intel PMU enhancements:

   - Support Intel Auto Counter Reload [ACR] (Kan Liang)

   - Add PMU support for Clearwater Forest (Dapeng Mi)

   - Arch-PEBS preparatory changes: (Dapeng Mi)
       - Parse CPUID archPerfmonExt leaves for non-hybrid CPUs
       - Decouple BTS initialization from PEBS initialization
       - Introduce pairs of PEBS static calls

  x86 AMD PMU enhancements:

   - Use hrtimer for handling overflows in the AMD uncore driver
     (Sandipan Das)

   - Prevent UMC counters from saturating (Sandipan Das)

  Fixes and cleanups:

   - Fix put_ctx() ordering (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - Fix irq work dereferencing garbage (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - Misc fixes and cleanups (Changbin Du, Frederic Weisbecker, Ian
     Rogers, Ingo Molnar, Kan Liang, Peter Zijlstra, Qing Wang, Sandipan
     Das, Thorsten Blum)"

* tag 'perf-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (60 commits)
  perf/headers: Clean up <linux/perf_event.h> a bit
  perf/uapi: Clean up <uapi/linux/perf_event.h> a bit
  perf/uapi: Fix PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE comments in <uapi/linux/perf_event.h>
  mips/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  xtensa/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  sparc/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  loongarch/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  csky/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  arc/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  alpha/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  perf/apple_m1: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  perf/arm: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  s390/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  powerpc/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  perf/x86/zhaoxin: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  perf/x86/amd: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  perf/x86/intel: Remove driver-specific throttle support
  perf: Only dump the throttle log for the leader
  perf: Fix the throttle logic for a group
  perf/core: Add the is_event_in_freq_mode() helper to simplify the code
  ...
2025-05-26 15:40:23 -07:00
..
bpf vfs-6.16-rc1.async.dir 2025-05-26 08:02:43 -07:00
cgroup cgroup/cpuset: Extend kthread_is_per_cpu() check to all PF_NO_SETAFFINITY tasks 2025-05-09 07:35:14 -10:00
configs - The 6 patch series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from 2025-04-01 09:29:18 -07:00
debug TTY/Serial driver updates for 6.15-rc1 2025-04-02 18:17:33 -07:00
dma dma-coherent: Warn if OF reserved memory is beyond current coherent DMA mask 2025-04-22 17:44:09 +02:00
entry Objtool changes for v6.15: 2025-03-24 21:18:05 -07:00
events perf: Only dump the throttle log for the leader 2025-05-21 13:57:43 +02:00
futex futex: Correct the kernedoc return value for futex_wait_setup(). 2025-05-21 13:57:41 +02:00
gcov gcov: clang: use correct function param names 2025-01-24 22:47:27 -08:00
irq genirq/msi: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in msi_domain_debug_show() 2025-04-30 23:25:10 +02:00
kcsan treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]() 2025-04-05 10:30:12 +02:00
livepatch sched,livepatch: Untangle cond_resched() and live-patching 2025-05-14 13:16:24 +02:00
locking Locking changes for v6.16: 2025-05-26 14:42:07 -07:00
module 22 hotfixes. 13 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.14 issues 2025-05-25 07:48:35 -07:00
power for-6.16/block-20250523 2025-05-26 11:39:36 -07:00
printk printk changes for 6.15 2025-03-27 19:22:24 -07:00
rcu Merge branches 'rcu/misc-for-6.16', 'rcu/seq-counters-for-6.16' and 'rcu/torture-for-6.16' into rcu/for-next 2025-05-16 11:18:16 -04:00
sched Scheduler updates for v6.16: 2025-05-26 15:19:58 -07:00
time timekeeping: Prevent coarse clocks going backwards 2025-04-28 11:17:29 +02:00
trace for-6.16/block-20250523 2025-05-26 11:39:36 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c acct: block access to kernel internal filesystems 2025-02-12 12:24:16 +01:00
async.c
audit.c audit: Initialize lsmctx to avoid memory allocation error 2025-01-29 20:02:04 -05:00
audit.h audit: change context data from secid to lsm_prop 2024-10-11 14:34:16 -04:00
audit_fsnotify.c
audit_tree.c fsnotify: create a wrapper fsnotify_find_inode_mark() 2024-04-04 16:24:16 +02:00
audit_watch.c fs: add kern_path_locked_negative() 2025-04-15 11:32:34 +02:00
auditfilter.c audit: fix suffixed '/' filename matching 2024-12-05 19:22:38 -05:00
auditsc.c fs: dedup handling of struct filename init and refcounts bumps 2025-03-18 15:34:27 +01:00
backtracetest.c backtracetest: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION() 2024-06-24 22:24:55 -07:00
bounds.c bounds: Use the right number of bits for power-of-two CONFIG_NR_CPUS 2024-04-29 08:29:29 -07:00
capability.c capability: Remove unused has_capability 2025-03-07 22:03:09 -06:00
cfi.c Modules changes for 6.15-rc1 2025-03-30 15:44:36 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c context_tracking: Make RCU watch ct_kernel_exit_state() warning 2025-03-04 18:44:29 -08:00
cpu.c perf: Remove too early and redundant CPU hotplug handling 2025-05-08 21:50:19 +02:00
cpu_pm.c
crash_core.c crash: Use note name macros 2025-02-10 16:56:58 -08:00
crash_reserve.c crash: remove an unused argument from reserve_crashkernel_generic() 2025-03-16 22:30:47 -07:00
cred.c cred: remove old {override,revert}_creds() helpers 2024-12-02 11:25:09 +01:00
delayacct.c treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
dma.c
elfcorehdr.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c Scheduler updates for v6.16: 2025-05-26 15:19:58 -07:00
exit.h
extable.c
fail_function.c
fork.c Locking changes for v6.16: 2025-05-26 14:42:07 -07:00
freezer.c sched/fair: Fix external p->on_rq users 2024-10-14 09:14:35 +02:00
gen_kheaders.sh Revert "kheaders: Ignore silly-rename files" 2025-03-15 21:22:52 +09:00
groups.c
hung_task.c hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on mutex 2025-03-21 22:10:04 -07:00
iomem.c mm/memremap: Pass down MEMREMAP_* flags to arch_memremap_wb() 2025-02-21 15:05:38 +01:00
irq_work.c kasan: make kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc() the default behaviour 2025-01-13 22:40:36 -08:00
jump_label.c jump_label: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address(). 2025-03-10 11:54:46 +01:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: Remove KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 2025-02-18 10:16:04 +01:00
kallsyms_internal.h kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms 2024-07-20 16:33:21 +09:00
kallsyms_selftest.c kallsyms: Use kthread_run_on_cpu() 2025-01-02 22:12:12 +01:00
kallsyms_selftest.h
kcmp.c kcmp: improve performance adding an unlikely hint to task comparisons 2025-02-21 10:25:33 +01:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz kernel: Fix "select" wording on HZ_250 description 2025-02-21 09:20:30 +01:00
Kconfig.kexec crash, powerpc: default to CRASH_DUMP=n on PPC_BOOK3S_32 2024-11-14 22:43:48 -08:00
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt sched: No PREEMPT_RT=y for all{yes,mod}config 2024-11-07 15:25:05 +01:00
kcov.c kcov: mark in_softirq_really() as __always_inline 2024-12-30 17:59:08 -08:00
kexec.c crash: add a new kexec flag for hotplug support 2024-04-23 14:59:01 +10:00
kexec_core.c - The 7 patch series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel 2025-04-01 10:06:52 -07:00
kexec_elf.c kexec: initialize ELF lowest address to ULONG_MAX 2025-03-16 22:30:47 -07:00
kexec_file.c crash: let arch decide usable memory range in reserved area 2025-03-16 22:30:47 -07:00
kexec_internal.h kexec: use atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire() in kexec_trylock() 2024-09-01 20:43:23 -07:00
kheaders.c kheaders: Simplify attribute through __BIN_ATTR_SIMPLE_RO() 2024-12-24 09:46:49 +01:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address(). 2025-03-10 11:54:46 +01:00
ksyms_common.c
ksysfs.c kernel/ksysfs.c: simplify bin_attribute definition 2025-01-07 16:59:15 +01:00
kthread.c treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]() 2025-04-05 10:30:12 +02:00
latencytop.c treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
Makefile tracing: Disable branch profiling in noinstr code 2025-03-22 09:49:26 +01:00
module_signature.c
notifier.c reboot: move reboot_notifier_list to kernel/reboot.c 2024-11-05 17:12:31 -08:00
nsproxy.c kernel/nsproxy: remove unnecessary guards 2025-05-09 13:13:54 +02:00
padata.c padata: do not leak refcount in reorder_work 2025-05-19 13:44:16 +08:00
panic.c These are objtool fixes and updates by Josh Poimboeuf, centered 2025-04-02 10:30:10 -07:00
params.c module: ensure that kobject_put() is safe for module type kobjects 2025-05-07 20:24:59 +02:00
pid.c pidfs: detect refcount bugs 2025-05-06 13:59:00 +02:00
pid_namespace.c pid: Do not set pid_max in new pid namespaces 2025-03-06 10:18:36 +01:00
pid_sysctl.h treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
profile.c profiling: remove profile=sleep support 2024-08-04 13:36:28 -07:00
ptrace.c
range.c
reboot.c - The 7 patch series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel 2025-04-01 10:06:52 -07:00
regset.c regset: use kvzalloc() for regset_get_alloc() 2024-04-25 21:07:03 -07:00
relay.c relay: use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting 2025-03-21 22:10:05 -07:00
resource.c resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES() 2025-03-21 22:10:05 -07:00
resource_kunit.c resource, kunit: fix user-after-free in resource_test_region_intersects() 2024-10-09 12:47:19 -07:00
rseq.c rseq: Fix segfault on registration when rseq_cs is non-zero 2025-03-06 22:26:49 +01:00
scftorture.c scftorture: Handle NULL argument passed to scf_add_to_free_list(). 2024-11-14 16:09:51 -08:00
scs.c
seccomp.c seccomp: avoid the lock trip seccomp_filter_release in common case 2025-02-24 11:17:10 -08:00
signal.c vfs-6.15-rc1.fixes 2025-04-02 16:05:21 -07:00
smp.c CSD-lock pull request for v6.14 2025-01-28 11:34:03 -08:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c lockdep: Fix wait context check on softirq for PREEMPT_RT 2025-03-25 10:46:44 +01:00
stackleak.c treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
stacktrace.c
static_call.c
static_call_inline.c Modules changes for 6.15-rc1 2025-03-30 15:44:36 -07:00
stop_machine.c stop-machine: Add comment for rcu_momentary_eqs() 2025-03-11 10:15:52 -07:00
sys.c futex: Add basic infrastructure for local task local hash 2025-05-03 12:02:07 +02:00
sys_ni.c Probes updates for v6.11: 2024-07-18 12:19:20 -07:00
sysctl-test.c treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
sysctl.c s390 updates for 6.15 merge window 2025-03-29 11:59:43 -07:00
task_work.c kasan: make kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc() the default behaviour 2025-01-13 22:40:36 -08:00
taskstats.c fdget(), more trivial conversions 2024-11-03 01:28:06 -05:00
torture.c torture: Add get_torture_init_jiffies() for test-start time 2025-02-05 07:14:24 -08:00
tracepoint.c tracepoint: Print the function symbol when tracepoint_debug is set 2025-03-21 15:30:10 -04:00
tsacct.c tsacct: replace strncpy() with strscpy() 2024-07-12 16:39:53 -07:00
ucount.c ucount: use rcuref_t for reference counting 2025-03-16 22:30:50 -07:00
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c uidgid: make sure we fit into one cacheline 2024-09-12 12:16:09 +02:00
user_namespace.c uidgid: add map_id_range_up() 2025-02-12 12:12:27 +01:00
usermode_driver.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
vhost_task.c vhost_task: fix vhost_task_create() documentation 2025-04-18 10:08:11 -04:00
vmcore_info.c mm: support only one page_type per page 2024-09-03 21:15:43 -07:00
watch_queue.c vfs-6.15-rc1.pipe 2025-03-24 09:52:37 -07:00
watchdog.c A treewide hrtimer timer cleanup 2025-03-25 10:54:15 -07:00
watchdog_buddy.c
watchdog_perf.c - The 7 patch series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel 2025-04-01 10:06:52 -07:00
workqueue.c treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]() 2025-04-05 10:30:12 +02:00
workqueue_internal.h