Commit 3bc753c06d ("kbuild: treat char as always unsigned") made
chars unsigned by default in the Linux kernel. To avoid similar kinds
of bugs and warnings, make unsigned chars the default for the perf tool.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.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>
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>
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>
This reverts:
commit 8988c4b919 ("perf tools: Fix in-source libperf build")
commit bfb713ea53 ("perf tools: Fix arm64 build by generating unistd_64.h")
Since we now have a static unistd_64.h for the arm64 build, there is no
need to generate unistd_64.h in libperf. Revert all patches related to
generating unistd_64.h.
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The libopenssl is required by bpftool which is needed to generate BPF
skeleton. Disable it by setting BUILD_BPF_SKEL to 0 otherwise it'll see
build errors like below:
CC /build/util/bpf_skel/.tmp/bootstrap/sign.o
sign.c:16:10: fatal error: openssl/opensslv.h: No such file or directory
16 | #include <openssl/opensslv.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [Makefile:256: /build/util/bpf_skel/.tmp/bootstrap/sign.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [Makefile.perf:1211: /build/util/bpf_skel/.tmp/bootstrap/bpftool] Error 2
make[1]: *** [Makefile.perf:287: sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:76: all] Error 2
Now it'll skip the build with the following message:
Makefile.config:729: Warning: Disabled BPF skeletons as libopenssl is required
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/aP7uq6eVieG8v_v4@google.com
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
...
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 <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The intel-pt code dependent on __get_cpuid is no longer present so
remove the feature test in the Makefile.config.
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>
If libperl is installed then the perf tool build will build against
it. There appears to be limited interest in the scripting support for
perl so let's make it opt-in and deprecate it.
With this patch applied you need to add LIBPERL=1 to get libperl
support in perf - there is no warning if libperl is missing, but
building will fail if libperl is missing and the build has LIBPERL=1.
The perf version output is changed to:
```
$ perf version --build-options
perf version 6.17.rc3.g8eca69269947
aio: [ on ] # HAVE_AIO_SUPPORT
bpf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT
bpf_skeletons: [ on ] # HAVE_BPF_SKEL
debuginfod: [ on ] # HAVE_DEBUGINFOD_SUPPORT
dwarf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBDW_SUPPORT
dwarf_getlocations: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBDW_SUPPORT
dwarf-unwind: [ on ] # HAVE_DWARF_UNWIND_SUPPORT
auxtrace: [ on ] # HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT
libbfd: [ OFF ] # HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT ( tip: Deprecated, license incompatibility, use BUILD_NONDISTRO=1 and install binutils-dev[el] )
libbpf-strings: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBPF_STRINGS_SUPPORT
libcapstone: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBCAPSTONE_SUPPORT
libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBDW_SUPPORT
libelf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
libnuma: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
libopencsd: [ OFF ] # HAVE_CSTRACE_SUPPORT
libperl: [ OFF ] # HAVE_LIBPERL_SUPPORT ( tip:
Deprecated, use LIBPERL=1 and install libperl-dev to build with it )
libpfm4: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBPFM
libpython: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBPYTHON_SUPPORT
libslang: [ on ] # HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT
libtraceevent: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT
libunwind: [ OFF ] # HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT ( tip:
Deprecated, use LIBUNWIND=1 and install libunwind-dev[el] to build
with it )
lzma: [ on ] # HAVE_LZMA_SUPPORT
numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT
zlib: [ on ] # HAVE_ZLIB_SUPPORT
zstd: [ on ] # HAVE_ZSTD_SUPPORT
```
i.e. there is a tip saying about deprecation and how to get support
back.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Cc: Yuzhuo Jing <yuzhuo@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aMrk03gigBlGcYLK@x1/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAP-5=fVX+bLBRJCiziDi_hBySgv2NFtDoghtpheSSxVAvvETGw@mail.gmail.com
[ Keep the pre-existing perl-ExtUtils-Embed hint for Fedora/RHEL systems ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
