Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core updates:
- Try to allocate task_ctx_data quickly, to optimize O(N^2) algorithm
on large systems with O(100k) threads (Namhyung Kim)
AMD PMU driver IBS support updates and fixes, by Ravi Bangoria:
- Fix interrupt accounting for discarded samples
- Fix a Zen5-specific quirk
- Fix PhyAddrVal handling
- Fix NMI-safety with perf_allow_kernel()
- Fix a race between event add and NMIs
Intel PMU driver updates:
- Only check GP counters for PEBS constraints validation (Dapeng Mi)
MSR driver:
- Turn SMI_COUNT and PPERF on by default, instead of a long list of
CPU models to enable them on (Kan Liang)
... and misc cleanups and fixes by Aldf Conte, Anshuman Khandual,
Namhyung Kim, Ravi Bangoria and Yen-Hsiang Hsu"
* tag 'perf-core-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/events: Replace READ_ONCE() with standard pgtable accessors
perf/x86/msr: Make SMI and PPERF on by default
perf/x86/intel/p4: Fix unused variable warning in p4_pmu_init()
perf/x86/intel: Only check GP counters for PEBS constraints validation
perf/x86/amd/ibs: Fix comment typo in ibs_op_data
perf/amd/ibs: Advertise remote socket capability
perf/amd/ibs: Enable streaming store filter
perf/amd/ibs: Enable RIP bit63 hardware filtering
perf/amd/ibs: Enable fetch latency filtering
perf/amd/ibs: Support IBS_{FETCH|OP}_CTL2[Dis] to eliminate RMW race
perf/amd/ibs: Add new MSRs and CPUID bits definitions
perf/amd/ibs: Define macro for ldlat mask and shift
perf/amd/ibs: Avoid race between event add and NMI
perf/amd/ibs: Avoid calling perf_allow_kernel() from the IBS NMI handler
perf/amd/ibs: Preserve PhyAddrVal bit when clearing PhyAddr MSR
perf/amd/ibs: Limit ldlat->l3missonly dependency to Zen5
perf/amd/ibs: Account interrupt for discarded samples
perf/core: Simplify __detach_global_ctx_data()
perf/core: Try to allocate task_ctx_data quickly
perf/core: Pass GFP flags to attach_task_ctx_data()
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:
- KLP support updates and fixes (Song Liu)
- KLP-build script updates and fixes (Joe Lawrence)
- Support Clang RAX DRAP sequence, to address clang false positive
(Josh Poimboeuf)
- Reorder ORC register numbering to match regular x86 register
numbering (Josh Poimboeuf)
- Misc cleanups (Wentong Tian, Song Liu)
* tag 'objtool-core-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
objtool/x86: Reorder ORC register numbering
objtool: Support Clang RAX DRAP sequence
livepatch/klp-build: report patch validation fuzz
livepatch/klp-build: add terminal color output
livepatch/klp-build: provide friendlier error messages
livepatch/klp-build: improve short-circuit validation
livepatch/klp-build: fix shellcheck complaints
livepatch/klp-build: add Makefile with check target
livepatch/klp-build: add grep-override function
livepatch/klp-build: switch to GNU patch and recountdiff
livepatch/klp-build: support patches that add/remove files
objtool/klp: Correlate locals to globals
objtool/klp: Match symbols based on demangled_name for global variables
objtool/klp: Remove .llvm suffix in demangle_name()
objtool/klp: Also demangle global objects
objtool/klp: Use sym->demangled_name for symbol_name hash
objtool/klp: Remove trailing '_' in demangle_name()
objtool/klp: Remove redundant strcmp() in correlate_symbols()
objtool: Use section/symbol type helpers
Pull amd-pstate new content for 7.1 (2026-04-02) from Mario Limonciello:
"Add support for new features:
* CPPC performance priority
* Dynamic EPP
* Raw EPP
* New unit tests for new features
Fixes for:
* PREEMPT_RT
* sysfs files being present when HW missing
* Broken/outdated documentation"
* tag 'amd-pstate-v7.1-2026-04-02' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/superm1/linux: (22 commits)
MAINTAINERS: amd-pstate: Step down as maintainer, add Prateek as reviewer
cpufreq: Pass the policy to cpufreq_driver->adjust_perf()
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Pass the policy to amd_pstate_update()
cpufreq/amd-pstate-ut: Add a unit test for raw EPP
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add support for raw EPP writes
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add support for platform profile class
cpufreq/amd-pstate: add kernel command line to override dynamic epp
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add dynamic energy performance preference
Documentation: amd-pstate: fix dead links in the reference section
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Cache the max frequency in cpudata
Documentation/amd-pstate: Add documentation for amd_pstate_floor_{freq,count}
Documentation/amd-pstate: List amd_pstate_prefcore_ranking sysfs file
Documentation/amd-pstate: List amd_pstate_hw_prefcore sysfs file
amd-pstate-ut: Add a testcase to validate the visibility of driver attributes
amd-pstate-ut: Add module parameter to select testcases
amd-pstate: Introduce a tracepoint trace_amd_pstate_cppc_req2()
amd-pstate: Add sysfs support for floor_freq and floor_count
amd-pstate: Add support for CPPC_REQ2 and FLOOR_PERF
x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD CPPC Performance Priority feature.
amd-pstate: Make certain freq_attrs conditionally visible
...
Some future AMD processors have feature named "CPPC Performance
Priority" which lets userspace specify different floor performance
levels for different CPUs. The platform firmware takes these different
floor performance levels into consideration while throttling the CPUs
under power/thermal constraints. The presence of this feature is
indicated by bit 16 of the EDX register for CPUID leaf
0x80000007. More details can be found in AMD Publication titled "AMD64
Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) Performance
Priority" Revision 1.10.
Define a new feature bit named X86_FEATURE_CPPC_PERF_PRIO to map to
CPUID 0x80000007.EDX[16].
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <gautham.shenoy@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org>
To pick the changes in:
e2ffe85b6d ("KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM")
That just rebuilds kvm-stat.c on x86, no change in functionality.
This silences these perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To pick up the changes from these csets:
9073428bb2 ("x86/sev: Allow IBPB-on-Entry feature for SNP guests")
That cause no changes to tooling as it doesn't include a new MSR to be
captured by the tools/perf/trace/beauty/tracepoints/x86_msr.sh script.
Just silences this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Reorder the ORC register values so their ordering matches the x86
instruction set register encodings.
No functional change intended.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
To get the comment changes in this commit:
171efc7009 ("x86/ibs: Fix typo in dc_l2tlb_miss comment")
This silences this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/amd/ibs.h arch/x86/include/asm/amd/ibs.h
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To pick the changes in:
6517dfbcc9 ("KVM: x86: Add x2APIC "features" to control EOI broadcast suppression")
20c3c4108d ("KVM: SEV: Add KVM_SEV_SNP_ENABLE_REQ_CERTS command")
This silences these perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Khushit Shah <khushit.shah@nutanix.com>
Cc: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To pick the changes from:
f24ef0093d ("KVM: x86: Advertise MOVRS CPUID to userspace")
f49ecf5e11 ("x86/cpufeature: Replace X86_FEATURE_SYSENTER32 with X86_FEATURE_SYSFAST32")
db5e824964 ("KVM: SVM: Virtualize and advertise support for ERAPS")
This causes these perf files to be rebuilt and brings some X86_FEATURE
that may be used by:
CC /tmp/build/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o
CC /tmp/build/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.o
And addresses this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@amd.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pick up upstream work and
d9b40d7262 ("selftests/x86: Add selftests include path for kselftest.h after centralization")
especially which is a build fix needed for a selftests cleanup coming
ontop of this.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
msr_set_bit() takes a bit number to set but MSR_ZEN2_SPECTRAL_CHICKEN_BIT
is a bit mask. The usual pattern that code uses is a _BIT-named type
macro instead of a mask.
So convert it to a bit number to reflect that.
Also, msr_set_bit() already does the reading and checking whether the
bit needs to be set so use that instead of a local variable.
Fixup tabbing while at it.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230110731.28108-1-bp@kernel.org
To pick up changes from:
54de197c9a ("Merge tag 'x86_sgx_for_6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip")
679fcce002 ("Merge tag 'kvm-x86-svm-6.19' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD")
3767def18f ("x86/cpufeatures: Add support for L3 Smart Data Cache Injection Allocation Enforcement")
f6106d41ec ("x86/bugs: Use an x86 feature to track the MMIO Stale Data mitigation")
7baadd463e ("x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate the LASS feature bits")
47955b58cf ("x86/cpufeatures: Correct LKGS feature flag description")
5d0316e25d ("x86/cpufeatures: Add X86_FEATURE_X2AVIC_EXT")
6ffdb49101 ("x86/cpufeatures: Add X86_FEATURE_SGX_EUPDATESVN feature flag")
4793f990ea ("KVM: x86: Advertise EferLmsleUnsupported to userspace")
bb5f13df3c ("perf/x86/intel: Add counter group support for arch-PEBS")
52448a0a73 ("perf/x86/intel: Setup PEBS data configuration and enable legacy groups")
d21954c8a0 ("perf/x86/intel: Process arch-PEBS records or record fragments")
bffeb2fd0b ("x86/microcode/intel: Enable staging when available")
740144bc6b ("x86/microcode/intel: Establish staging control logic")
This should address these tools/perf build warnings:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README.
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To pick up changes from:
ad9c62bd89 ("KVM: arm64: VM exit to userspace to handle SEA")
8e8678e740 ("KVM: s390: Add capability that forwards operation exceptions")
e0c26d47de ("Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-6.19-1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD")
7a61d61396 ("KVM: SEV: Publish supported SEV-SNP policy bits")
This should be used to beautify DRM syscall arguments and it addresses
these tools/perf build warnings:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README.
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Pull x86 CPU feature updates from Dave Hansen:
"The biggest thing of note here is Linear Address Space Separation
(LASS). It represents the first time I can think of that the
upper=>kernel/lower=>user address space convention is actually
recognized by the hardware on x86. It ensures that userspace can not
even get the hardware to _start_ page walks for the kernel address
space. This, of course, is a really nice generic side channel defense.
This is really only a down payment on LASS support. There are still
some details to work out in its interaction with EFI calls and
vsyscall emulation. For now, LASS is disabled if either of those
features is compiled in (which is almost always the case).
There's also one straggler commit in here which converts an
under-utilized AMD CPU feature leaf into a generic Linux-defined leaf
so more feature can be packed in there.
Summary:
- Enable Linear Address Space Separation (LASS)
- Change X86_FEATURE leaf 17 from an AMD leaf to Linux-defined"
* tag 'x86_cpu_for_6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpu: Enable LASS during CPU initialization
selftests/x86: Update the negative vsyscall tests to expect a #GP
x86/traps: Communicate a LASS violation in #GP message
x86/kexec: Disable LASS during relocate kernel
x86/alternatives: Disable LASS when patching kernel code
x86/asm: Introduce inline memcpy and memset
x86/cpu: Add an LASS dependency on SMAP
x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate the LASS feature bits
x86/cpufeatures: Make X86_FEATURE leaf 17 Linux-specific
Pull x86 cleanups from Borislav Petkov:
- The mandatory pile of cleanups the cat drags in every merge window
* tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v6.19_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/boot: Clean up whitespace in a20.c
x86/mm: Delete disabled debug code
x86/{boot,mtrr}: Remove unused function declarations
x86/percpu: Use BIT_WORD() and BIT_MASK() macros
x86/cpufeatures: Correct LKGS feature flag description
x86/idtentry: Add missing '*' to kernel-doc lines
Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Callchain support:
- Add support for deferred user-space stack unwinding for perf,
enabled on x86. (Peter Zijlstra, Steven Rostedt)
- unwind_user/x86: Enable frame pointer unwinding on x86 (Josh
Poimboeuf)
x86 PMU support and infrastructure:
- x86/insn: Simplify for_each_insn_prefix() (Peter Zijlstra)
- x86/insn,uprobes,alternative: Unify insn_is_nop() (Peter Zijlstra)
Intel PMU driver:
- Large series to prepare for and implement architectural PEBS
support for Intel platforms such as Clearwater Forest (CWF) and
Panther Lake (PTL). (Dapeng Mi, Kan Liang)
- Check dynamic constraints (Kan Liang)
- Optimize PEBS extended config (Peter Zijlstra)
- cstates:
- Remove PC3 support from LunarLake (Zhang Rui)
- Add Pantherlake support (Zhang Rui)
- Clearwater Forest support (Zide Chen)
AMD PMU driver:
- x86/amd: Check event before enable to avoid GPF (George Kennedy)
Fixes and cleanups:
- task_work: Fix NMI race condition (Peter Zijlstra)
- perf/x86: Fix NULL event access and potential PEBS record loss
(Dapeng Mi)
- Misc other fixes and cleanups (Dapeng Mi, Ingo Molnar, Peter
Zijlstra)"
* tag 'perf-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
perf/x86/intel: Fix and clean up intel_pmu_drain_arch_pebs() type use
perf/x86/intel: Optimize PEBS extended config
perf/x86/intel: Check PEBS dyn_constraints
perf/x86/intel: Add a check for dynamic constraints
perf/x86/intel: Add counter group support for arch-PEBS
perf/x86/intel: Setup PEBS data configuration and enable legacy groups
perf/x86/intel: Update dyn_constraint base on PEBS event precise level
perf/x86/intel: Allocate arch-PEBS buffer and initialize PEBS_BASE MSR
perf/x86/intel: Process arch-PEBS records or record fragments
perf/x86/intel/ds: Factor out PEBS group processing code to functions
perf/x86/intel/ds: Factor out PEBS record processing code to functions
perf/x86/intel: Initialize architectural PEBS
perf/x86/intel: Correct large PEBS flag check
perf/x86/intel: Replace x86_pmu.drain_pebs calling with static call
perf/x86: Fix NULL event access and potential PEBS record loss
perf/x86: Remove redundant is_x86_event() prototype
entry,unwind/deferred: Fix unwind_reset_info() placement
unwind_user/x86: Fix arch=um build
perf: Support deferred user unwind
unwind_user/x86: Teach FP unwind about start of function
...
To pick the changes in:
9d7dfb95da ("KVM: VMX: Inject #UD if guest tries to execute SEAMCALL or TDCALL")
The 'perf kvm-stat' tool uses the exit reasons that are included in the
VMX_EXIT_REASONS define, this new SEAMCALL isn't included there (TDCALL
is), so shouldn't be causing any change in behaviour, this patch ends up
being just addressess the following perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Quotation marks in cpufeatures.h comments are special and when the
comment begins with a quoted string, that string lands in /proc/cpuinfo,
turning it into a user-visible one.
The LKGS comment doesn't begin with a quoted string but just in case
drop the quoted "kernel" in there to avoid confusion. And while at it,
simply change the description into what the LKGS instruction does for
more clarity.
No functional changes.
Reviewed-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251015103548.10194-1-bp@kernel.org
To pick the changes in:
885df2d210 ("KVM: x86: Add support for RDMSR/WRMSRNS w/ immediate on Intel")
c42856af8f ("KVM: TDX: Add a place holder for handler of TDX hypercalls (TDG.VP.VMCALL)")
That makes 'perf kvm-stat' aware of these new TDCALL and
MSR_{READ,WRITE}_IMM exit reasons, thus addressing the following perf
build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Xin Li <xin@zytor.com>
Cc: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To pick the changes in:
b8c3c9f5d0 ("x86/apic: Initialize Secure AVIC APIC backing page")
That triggers:
CC /tmp/build/perf-tools/arch/x86/util/kvm-stat.o
LD /tmp/build/perf-tools/arch/x86/util/perf-util-in.o
LD /tmp/build/perf-tools/arch/x86/perf-util-in.o
LD /tmp/build/perf-tools/arch/perf-util-in.o
LD /tmp/build/perf-tools/perf-util-in.o
AR /tmp/build/perf-tools/libperf-util.a
LINK /tmp/build/perf-tools/perf
But this time causes no changes in tooling results, as the introduced
SVM_VMGEXIT_SAVIC exit reason wasn't added to SVM_EXIT_REASONS, that is
used in kvm-stat.c.
And addresses this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
