Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"perf report:
- Add 'comm_nodigit' sort key to combine similar threads that only
have different numbers in the comm. In the following example, the
'comm_nodigit' will have samples from all threads starting with
"bpfrb/" into an entry "bpfrb/<N>".
$ perf report -s comm_nodigit,comm -H
...
#
# Overhead CommandNoDigit / Command
# ........... ........................
#
20.30% swapper
20.30% swapper
13.37% chrome
13.37% chrome
10.07% bpfrb/<N>
7.47% bpfrb/0
0.70% bpfrb/1
0.47% bpfrb/3
0.46% bpfrb/2
0.25% bpfrb/4
0.23% bpfrb/5
0.20% bpfrb/6
0.14% bpfrb/10
0.07% bpfrb/7
- Support flat layout for symfs. The --symfs option is to specify the
location of debugging symbol files. The default 'hierarchy' layout
would search the symbol file using the same path of the original
file under the symfs root. The new 'flat' layout would search only
in the root directory.
- Update 'simd' sort key for ARM SIMD flags to cover ASE/SME and more
predicate flags.
perf stat:
- Add --pmu-filter option to select specific PMUs. This would be
useful when you measure metrics from multiple instance of uncore
PMUs with similar names.
# perf stat -M cpa_p0_avg_bw
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
19,417,779,115 hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_cycles/ # 0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw
0 hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/
0 hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/
0 hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/
19,417,751,103 hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_cycles/ # 0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw
0 hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/
0 hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/
0 hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/
19,417,730,679 hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_cycles/ # 0.31 cpa_p0_avg_bw
75,635,749 hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/
18,520,640 hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/
0 hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/
19,417,674,227 hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_cycles/ # 0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw
0 hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/
0 hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/
0 hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/
19.417734480 seconds time elapsed
With --pmu-filter, users can select only hisi_sicl2_cpa0 PMU.
# perf stat --pmu-filter hisi_sicl2_cpa0 -M cpa_p0_avg_bw
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
6,234,093,559 cpa_cycles # 0.60 cpa_p0_avg_bw
50,548,465 cpa_p0_wr_dat
7,552,182 cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b
0 cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b
6.234139320 seconds time elapsed
Data type profiling:
- Quality improvements by tracking register state more precisely
- Ensure array members to get the type
- Handle more cases for global variables
Vendor event/metric updates:
- Update various Intel events and metrics
- Add NVIDIA Tegra 410 Olympus events
Internal changes:
- Verify perf.data header for maliciously crafted files
- Update perf test to cover more usages and make them robust
- Move a couple of copied kernel headers not to annoy objtool build
- Fix a bug in map sorting in name order
- Remove some unused codes
Misc:
- Fix module symbol resolution with non-zero text address
- Add -t/--threads option to `perf bench mem mmap`
- Track duration of exit*() syscall by `perf trace -s`
- Add core.addr2line-timeout and core.addr2line-disable-warn config
items"
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.1-2026-04-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (131 commits)
perf loongarch: Fix build failure with CONFIG_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND
perf annotate: Use jump__delete when freeing LoongArch jumps
perf test: Fixes for check branch stack sampling
perf test: Fix inet_pton probe failure and unroll call graph
perf build: fix "argument list too long" in second location
perf header: Add sanity checks to HEADER_BPF_BTF processing
perf header: Sanity check HEADER_BPF_PROG_INFO
perf header: Sanity check HEADER_PMU_CAPS
perf header: Sanity check HEADER_HYBRID_TOPOLOGY
perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CACHE
perf header: Sanity check HEADER_GROUP_DESC
perf header: Sanity check HEADER_PMU_MAPPINGS
perf header: Sanity check HEADER_MEM_TOPOLOGY
perf header: Sanity check HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY
perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY
perf header: Sanity check HEADER_NRCPUS and HEADER_CPU_DOMAIN_INFO
perf header: Bump up the max number of command line args allowed
perf header: Validate nr_domains when reading HEADER_CPU_DOMAIN_INFO
perf sample: Fix documentation typo
perf arm_spe: Improve SIMD flags setting
...
Pull RTLA updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Simplify option parsing
Auto-generate getopt_long() optstring for short options from long
options array, avoiding the need to specify it manually and reducing
the surface for mistakes.
- Add unit tests
Implement unit tests (make unit-tests) using libcheck, next to
existing runtime tests (make check). Currently, three functions from
utils.c are tested.
- Add --stack-format option
In addition to stopping stack pointer decoding (with -s/--stack
option) on first unresolvable pointer, allow also skipping
unresolvable pointers and displaying everything, configurable with a
new option.
- Unify number of CPUs into one global variable
Use one global variable, nr_cpus, to store the number of CPUs instead
of retrieving it and passing it at multiple places.
- Fix behavior in various corner cases
Make RTLA behave correctly in several corner cases: memory allocation
failure, invalid value read from kernel side, thread creation
failure, malformed time value input, and read/write failure or
interruption by signal.
- Improve string handling
Simplify several places in the code that handle strings, including
parsing of action arguments. A few new helper functions and variables
are added for that purpose.
- Get rid of magic numbers
Few places handling paths use a magic number of 1024. Replace it with
MAX_PATH and ARRAY_SIZE() macro.
- Unify threshold handling
Code that handles response to latency threshold is duplicated between
tools, which has led to bugs in the past. Unify it into a new helper
as much as possible.
- Fix segfault on SIGINT during cleanup
The SIGINT handler touches dynamically allocated memory. Detach it
before freeing it during cleanup to prevent segmentation fault and
discarding of output buffers. Also, properly document SIGINT handling
while at it.
* tag 'trace-rtla-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (28 commits)
Documentation/rtla: Document SIGINT behavior
rtla: Fix segfault on multiple SIGINTs
rtla/utils: Fix loop condition in PID validation
rtla/utils: Fix resource leak in set_comm_sched_attr()
rtla/trace: Fix I/O handling in save_trace_to_file()
rtla/trace: Fix write loop in trace_event_save_hist()
rtla/timerlat: Simplify RTLA_NO_BPF environment variable check
rtla: Use str_has_prefix() for option prefix check
rtla: Enforce exact match for time unit suffixes
rtla: Use str_has_prefix() for prefix checks
rtla: Add str_has_prefix() helper function
rtla: Handle pthread_create() failure properly
rtla/timerlat: Add bounds check for softirq vector
rtla: Simplify code by caching string lengths
rtla: Replace magic number with MAX_PATH
rtla: Introduce common_threshold_handler() helper
rtla/actions: Simplify argument parsing
rtla: Use strdup() to simplify code
rtla: Exit on memory allocation failures during initialization
tools/rtla: Remove unneeded nr_cpus from for_each_monitored_cpu
...
The perf static build reports that the BPF skeleton is disabled due to
the missing libopenssl feature.
Use PKG_CONFIG to determine the link flags for libopenssl. Add
"--static" to the PKG_CONFIG command for static linking.
Fixes: 7678523109 ("tools/build: Add a feature test for libopenssl")
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Currently no target is specified to compile rust code when needed, which
breaks cross compilation. E.g. for arm64:
LD /tmp/build/tests/workloads/perf-test-in.o
aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: /tmp/build/tests/workloads/code_with_type.a(code_with_type.code_with_type.d12f4324cb53c560-cgu.0.rcgu.o): Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 62)
aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: /tmp/build/tests/workloads/code_with_type.a(code_with_type.code_with_type.d12f4324cb53c560-cgu.0.rcgu.o): Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 62)
[...repeated...]
aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: /tmp/build/tests/workloads/code_with_type.a(code_with_type.code_with_type.d12f4324cb53c560-cgu.0.rcgu.o): Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 62)
aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: /tmp/build/tests/workloads/code_with_type.a(code_with_type.code_with_type.d12f4324cb53c560-cgu.0.rcgu.o): Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 62)
aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: /tmp/build/tests/workloads/code_with_type.a: error adding symbols: file in wrong format
make[5]: *** [/perf/tools/build/Makefile.build:162: /tmp/build/tests/workloads/perf-test-in.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [/perf/tools/build/Makefile.build:156: workloads] Error 2
make[3]: *** [/perf/tools/build/Makefile.build:156: tests] Error 2
make[2]: *** [Makefile.perf:785: /tmp/build/perf-test-in.o] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [Makefile.perf:289: sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:76: all] Error 2
Detect required target and pass it via rust_flags to the compiler.
Note that CROSS_COMPILE might be different from what rust compiler
expects, since it may omit the target vendor value, e.g.
"aarch64-linux-gnu" instead of "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu".
Thus explicitly map supported CROSS_COMPILE values to corresponding Rust
versions, as suggested by Miguel Ojeda.
Tested using arm64 cross-compilation example from [1].
Fixes: 2e05bb52a1 ("perf test workload: Add code_with_type test workload")
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Cc: Levi Zim <i@kxxt.dev>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://perfwiki.github.io/main/arm64-cross-compilation-dockerfile/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The command length of in-target scales with the depth of the directory
times the number of objects in the Makefile.
When there are many objects, and O=[absolute_path] is set, and the
absolute_path is relatively long.
It is possible that this line "$(call if_changed,$(host)ld_multi)" will
report error: "make[4]: /bin/sh: Argument list too long"
For example, build perf tools with O=/long/output/path
Like built-in.a and *.mod rules in scripts/Makefile.build, add
$(objpredix)/ by the shell command instead of by Make's builtin
function.
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>
Cc: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently a dummy rust code is compiled to detect if the rust feature
could be enabled. It turns out that in this case rust emits a dependency
file without any external references:
/perf/feature/test-rust.d: test-rust.rs
/perf/feature/test-rust.bin: test-rust.rs
test-rust.rs:
This can lead to a situation, when rustc was removed after a successful build,
but the build process still thinks it's there and the feature is enabled on
subsequent runs.
Instead simply check the compiler presence to detect the feature, as
suggested by Arnaldo.
This way no actual test-rust.bin will be created, meaning the feature
check will not be cached and always performed. That's exactly what we
want, and the overhead of doing this every time is minimal.
Tested with multiple rounds of install/remove of the rust package.
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Test it first by having rust installed, then removing it and building again.
Fixes: 6a32fa5ccd ("tools build: Add a feature test for rust compiler")
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
test-rust.bin is missing from the list of FILES, and thus is not removed by the
clean target. This could lead to a false feature detection, since the binary
stays there. Fix it.
Fixes: 6a32fa5ccd ("tools build: Add a feature test for rust compiler")
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Features in FEATURE_TESTS_BASIC will be set as being available if
test-all.c builds, so since the rust test isn't included in test-all.c,
we can't have 'rust' in there, remove it from FEATURE_TESTS_BASIC and
use feature-check so that it tries to build test-rust.bin, doing the
actual feature detection.
On a system lacking a rust compiler:
Makefile.config:1158: Rust is not found. Test workloads with rust are disabled.
Auto-detecting system features:
... libdw: [ on ]
... glibc: [ on ]
... libelf: [ on ]
... libnuma: [ on ]
... numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on ]
... libpython: [ on ]
... libcapstone: [ on ]
... llvm-perf: [ on ]
... zlib: [ on ]
... lzma: [ on ]
... bpf: [ on ]
... libaio: [ on ]
... libzstd: [ on ]
... libopenssl: [ on ]
... rust: [ OFF ]
$ cat /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/feature/test-rust.make.output
/bin/sh: line 1: rustc: command not found
$ file /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/feature/test-rust.bin
/tmp/build/perf-tools-next/feature/test-rust.bin: cannot open `/tmp/build/perf-tools-next/feature/test-rust.bin' (No such file or directory)
$
$ perf -vv | grep RUST
rust: [ OFF ] # HAVE_RUST_SUPPORT
$
And after installing it:
... rust: [ on ]
$ cat /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/feature/test-rust.make.output
$ file /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/feature/test-rust.bin
/tmp/build/perf-tools-next/feature/test-rust.bin: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=9c416edf673ee3705b97bae893a99a6fcf1ee258, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, with debug_info, not stripped
$
$ perf -vv | grep RUST
rust: [ on ] # HAVE_RUST_SUPPORT
$
Fixes: 6a32fa5ccd ("tools build: Add a feature test for rust compiler")
Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The purpose of the workload is to gather samples of rust runtime. To
achieve that it has a dummy rust library linked with it.
Per recommendations for such scenarios [1], the rust library is
statically linked.
An example:
$ perf record perf test -w code_with_type
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.160 MB perf.data (4074 samples) ]
$ perf report --stdio --dso perf -s srcfile,srcline
45.16% ub_checks.rs ub_checks.rs:72
6.72% code_with_type.rs code_with_type.rs:15
6.64% range.rs range.rs:767
4.26% code_with_type.rs code_with_type.rs:21
4.23% range.rs range.rs:0
3.99% code_with_type.rs code_with_type.rs:16
[...]
[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/linkage.html#mixed-rust-and-foreign-codebases
Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add a feature test to identify if the rust compiler is available, so
that perf could build rust based worloads based on that.
Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The recent introduction of the libopenssl feature test forgot to add the
-lssl to the test-all.o target, which made it always fail, fix it.
Noticed by looking at this file after building:
$ cat /tmp/build/perf-tools/feature/test-all.make.output
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccBhO8WH.ltrans0.ltrans.o: in function `main':
/home/acme/git/perf-tools/tools/build/feature/test-libopenssl.c:6:(.text.startup+0x2ed): undefined reference to `OPENSSL_init_ssl'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
$
It was added only to the individual ssl test, that works:
$ cat /tmp/build/perf-tools/feature/test-libopenssl.make.output
$ ldd /tmp/build/perf-tools/feature/test-libopenssl.bin | grep ssl
libssl.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libssl.so.3 (0x00007fb81eda8000)
$
Fixes: 7678523109 ("tools/build: Add a feature test for libopenssl")
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
It's used by bpftool and the kernel build. Let's add a feature test so
that perf can decide what to do based on the availability.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"Perf event/metric description:
Unify all event and metric descriptions in JSON format. Now event
parsing and handling is greatly simplified by that.
From users point of view, perf list will provide richer information
about hardware events like the following.
$ perf list hw
List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M):
legacy hardware:
branch-instructions
[Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branches]. Unit: cpu]
branch-misses
[Mispredicted branch instructions. Unit: cpu]
branches
[Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branch-instructions]. Unit: cpu]
bus-cycles
[Bus cycles,which can be different from total cycles. Unit: cpu]
cache-misses
[Cache misses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache misses; this is intended to be used in conjunction with the
PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES event to calculate cache miss rates. Unit: cpu]
cache-references
[Cache accesses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache accesses but this may vary depending on your CPU. This may include
prefetches and coherency messages; again this depends on the design of your CPU. Unit: cpu]
cpu-cycles
[Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cycles]. Unit: cpu]
cycles
[Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cpu-cycles]. Unit: cpu]
instructions
[Retired instructions. Be careful,these can be affected by various issues,most notably hardware interrupt counts. Unit: cpu]
ref-cycles
[Total cycles; not affected by CPU frequency scaling. Unit: cpu]
But most notable changes would be in the perf stat. On the right side,
the default metrics are better named and aligned. :)
$ perf stat -- perf test -w noploop
Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop':
11 context-switches # 10.8 cs/sec cs_per_second
0 cpu-migrations # 0.0 migrations/sec migrations_per_second
3,612 page-faults # 3532.5 faults/sec page_faults_per_second
1,022.51 msec task-clock # 1.0 CPUs CPUs_utilized
110,466 branch-misses # 0.0 % branch_miss_rate (88.66%)
6,934,452,104 branches # 6781.8 M/sec branch_frequency (88.66%)
4,657,032,590 cpu-cycles # 4.6 GHz cycles_frequency (88.65%)
27,755,874,218 instructions # 6.0 instructions insn_per_cycle (89.03%)
TopdownL1 # 0.3 % tma_backend_bound
# 9.3 % tma_bad_speculation (89.05%)
# 9.7 % tma_frontend_bound (77.86%)
# 80.7 % tma_retiring (88.81%)
1.025318171 seconds time elapsed
1.013248000 seconds user
0.012014000 seconds sys
Deferred unwinding support:
With the kernel support (commit c69993ecdd: "perf: Support deferred
user unwind"), perf can use deferred callchains for userspace stack
trace with frame pointers like below:
$ perf record --call-graph fp,defer ...
This will be transparent to users when it comes to other commands like
perf report and perf script. They will merge the deferred callchains
to the previous samples as if they were collected together.
ARM SPE updates
- Extensive enhancements to support various kinds of memory
operations including GCS, MTE allocation tags, memcpy/memset,
register access, and SIMD operations.
- Add inverted data source filter (inv_data_src_filter) support to
exclude certain data sources.
- Improve documentation.
Vendor event updates:
- Intel: Updated event files for Sierra Forest, Panther Lake, Meteor
Lake, Lunar Lake, Granite Rapids, and others.
- Arm64: Added metrics for i.MX94 DDR PMU and Cortex-A720AE
definitions.
- RISC-V: Added JSON support for T-HEAD C920V2.
Misc:
- Improve pointer tracking in data type profiling. It'd give better
output when the variable is using container_of() to convert type.
- Annotation support for perf c2c report in TUI. Press 'a' key to
enter annotation view from cacheline browser window. This will show
which instruction is causing the cacheline contention.
- Lots of fixes and test coverage improvements!"
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (214 commits)
libperf: Use 'extern' in LIBPERF_API visibility macro
perf stat: Improve handling of termination by signal
perf tests stat: Add test for error for an offline CPU
perf stat: When no events, don't report an error if there is none
perf tests stat: Add "--null" coverage
perf cpumap: Add "any" CPU handling to cpu_map__snprint_mask
libperf cpumap: Fix perf_cpu_map__max for an empty/NULL map
perf stat: Allow no events to open if this is a "--null" run
perf test kvm: Add some basic perf kvm test coverage
perf tests evlist: Add basic evlist test
perf tests script dlfilter: Add a dlfilter test
perf tests kallsyms: Add basic kallsyms test
perf tests timechart: Add a perf timechart test
perf tests top: Add basic perf top coverage test
perf tests buildid: Add purge and remove testing
perf tests c2c: Add a basic c2c
perf c2c: Clean up some defensive gets and make asan clean
perf jitdump: Fix missed dso__put
perf mem-events: Don't leak online CPU map
perf hist: In init, ensure mem_info is put on error paths
...
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:
- klp-build livepatch module generation (Josh Poimboeuf)
Introduce new objtool features and a klp-build script to generate
livepatch modules using a source .patch as input.
This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch
project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to
generate livepatch modules for production kernels. However, this is a
complete rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+
years of maintaining kpatch.
Key improvements compared to kpatch-build:
- Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow
graph analysis to help detect changed functions.
- Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it
compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar.
- Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code.
- Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft.
- Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for
symbol/section/reloc inclusion and special section extraction.
- Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs
caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines
script which injects #line directives into the source .patch to
preserve the original line numbers at compile time.
- Disassemble code with libopcodes instead of running objdump
(Alexandre Chartre)
- Disassemble support (-d option to objtool) by Alexandre Chartre,
which supports the decoding of various Linux kernel code generation
specials such as alternatives:
17ef: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x62f mov 0x34(%r9),%edx
17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | <alternative.17f3> | X86_FEATURE_POPCNT
17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | call 0x17f8 <__sw_hweight64> | popcnt %rdi,%rax
17f8: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x638 cmp %eax,%edx
... jump table alternatives:
1895: sched_use_asym_prio+0x5 test $0x8,%ch
1898: sched_use_asym_prio+0x8 je 0x18a9 <sched_use_asym_prio+0x19>
189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | <jump_table.189a> | JUMP
189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | jmp 0x18ae <sched_use_asym_prio+0x1e> | nop2
189c: sched_use_asym_prio+0xc mov $0x1,%eax
18a1: sched_use_asym_prio+0x11 and $0x80,%ecx
... exception table alternatives:
native_read_msr:
5b80: native_read_msr+0x0 mov %edi,%ecx
5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | <ex_table.5b82> | EXCEPTION
5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | rdmsr | resume at 0x5b84 <native_read_msr+0x4>
5b84: native_read_msr+0x4 shl $0x20,%rdx
.... x86 feature flag decoding (also see the X86_FEATURE_POPCNT
example in sched_balance_find_dst_group() above):
2faaf: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x1f jne 0x2fba4 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x114>
2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | <alternative.2fab5> | X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS | X86_BUG_NULL_SEG
2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | jmp 0x2faba <.altinstr_aux+0x2f4> | jmp 0x4b0 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x3f> | nop5
2faba: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x2a mov $0x2b,%eax
... NOP sequence shortening:
1048e2: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc2 je 0x104917 <snapshot_write_finalize+0xf7>
1048e4: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc4 nop6
1048ea: snapshot_write_finalize+0xca nop11
1048f5: snapshot_write_finalize+0xd5 nop11
104900: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe0 mov %rax,%rcx
104903: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe3 mov 0x10(%rdx),%rax
... and much more.
- Function validation tracing support (Alexandre Chartre)
- Various -ffunction-sections fixes (Josh Poimboeuf)
- Clang AutoFDO (Automated Feedback-Directed Optimizations) support
(Josh Poimboeuf)
- Misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Chen Ni, Dylan Hatch, Ingo
Molnar, John Wang, Josh Poimboeuf, Pankaj Raghav, Peter Zijlstra,
Thorsten Blum)
* tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits)
objtool: Fix segfault on unknown alternatives
objtool: Build with disassembly can fail when including bdf.h
objtool: Trim trailing NOPs in alternative
objtool: Add wide output for disassembly
objtool: Compact output for alternatives with one instruction
objtool: Improve naming of group alternatives
objtool: Add Function to get the name of a CPU feature
objtool: Provide access to feature and flags of group alternatives
objtool: Fix address references in alternatives
objtool: Disassemble jump table alternatives
objtool: Disassemble exception table alternatives
objtool: Print addresses with alternative instructions
objtool: Disassemble group alternatives
objtool: Print headers for alternatives
objtool: Preserve alternatives order
objtool: Add the --disas=<function-pattern> action
objtool: Do not validate IBT for .return_sites and .call_sites
objtool: Improve tracing of alternative instructions
objtool: Add functions to better name alternatives
objtool: Identify the different types of alternatives
...
This feature test is no longer used so remove.
The function tested by the feature test is used in:
tools/power/x86/x86_energy_perf_policy/x86_energy_perf_policy.c
however, the Makefile just assumes the presence of the function and
doesn't perform a build feature test for it.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
This is one more remnant of the BUILD_NONDISTRO series to make building
with binutils-devel opt-in due to license incompatibility.
In this case just the references at link time were still in place, which
make building the test-all.bin file fail, which wasn't detected before
probably because the last test was done with binutils-devel available,
doh.
Now:
$ rpm -q binutils-devel
package binutils-devel is not installed
$ file /tmp/build/perf-tools/feature/test-all.bin
/tmp/build/perf-tools/feature/test-all.bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,
BuildID[sha1]=4b5388a346b51f1b993f0b0dbd49f4570769b03c, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, not stripped
$
Fixes: 970ae86307 ("perf build: The bfd features are opt-in, stop testing for them by default")
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Commit a808a2b35f ("tools build: Fix fixdep dependencies") broke the
perf build ("make -C tools/perf") by introducing two inadvertent
conflicts:
1) tools/build/Makefile includes tools/build/Makefile.include, which
defines a phony 'fixdep' target. This conflicts with the $(FIXDEP)
file target in tools/build/Makefile when OUTPUT is empty, causing
make to report duplicate recipes for the same target.
2) The FIXDEP variable in tools/build/Makefile conflicts with the
previously existing one in tools/perf/Makefile.perf.
Remove the unnecessary include of tools/build/Makefile.include from
tools/build/Makefile, and rename the FIXDEP variable in
tools/perf/Makefile.perf to FIXDEP_BUILT.
Fixes: a808a2b35f ("tools build: Fix fixdep dependencies")
Reported-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8881bc3321bd9fa58802e4f36286eefe3667806b.1760992391.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
The tools version of fixdep has broken dependencies. It doesn't get
rebuilt if the host compiler or headers change.
Build fixdep with the tools kbuild infrastructure, so fixdep runs on
itself. Due to the recursive dependency, its dependency file is
incomplete the very first time it gets built. In that case build it a
second time to achieve fixdep inception.
Reported-by: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
