kernel.git/tools/perf/arch/powerpc, branch linux-6.18.y

perf powerpc: Add basic CONFIG_AUXTRACE support for VPA pmu on powerpc

2025-10-01T14:22:04Z

The powerpc PMU collecting Dispatch Trace Log (DTL) entries makes use of AUX support in perf infrastructure. The PMU driver has the functionality to collect trace entries in the aux buffer. On the tools side, this data is made available as PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE records. This record is generated by "perf record" command. To enable the creation of PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE, add functions to initialize auxtrace records ie "auxtrace_record__init()". Fill in fields for other callbacks like info_priv_size, info_fill, free, recording options etc. Define auxtrace_type as PERF_AUXTRACE_VPA_DTL. Add header file to define vpa dtl pmu specific details. Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev Tested-by: Tejas Manhas Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Cc: Aboorva Devarajan Cc: Aditya Bodkhe Cc: Hari Bathini Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Shrikanth Hegde Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools headers: Sync syscall tables with the kernel source

2025-08-18T20:49:25Z

To pick up the changes in this cset: be7efb2d20d67f33 fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls This addresses these perf build warnings: Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: diff -u tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h diff -u tools/scripts/syscall.tbl scripts/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/s390/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/arm/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/sh/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/sparc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/xtensa/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details. Cc: Arnd Bergmann CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf sort: Use perf_env to set arch sort keys and header

2025-07-25T17:37:58Z

Previously arch_support_sort_key and arch_perf_header_entry used a weak symbol to compile as appropriate for x86 and powerpc. A limitation to this is that the handling of a data file could vary in cross-platform development. Change to using the perf_env of the current session to determine the architecture kind and set the sort key and header entries as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-23-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf sample: Remove arch notion of sample parsing

2025-07-25T17:37:58Z

By definition arch sample parsing and synthesis will inhibit certain kinds of cross-platform record then analysis (report, script, etc.). Remove arch_perf_parse_sample_weight and arch_perf_synthesize_sample_weight replacing with a common implementation. Combine perf_sample p_stage_cyc and retire_lat as weight3 to capture the differing uses regardless of compiled for architecture. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-21-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

tools headers: Update the syscall table with the kernel sources

2025-04-10T16:28:24Z

To pick up the changes in: c4a16820d9019940 fs: add open_tree_attr() 2df1ad0d25803399 x86/arch_prctl: Simplify sys_arch_prctl() e632bca07c8eef1d arm64: generate 64-bit syscall.tbl This is basically to support the new open_tree_attr syscall. But it also needs to update asm-generic unistd.h header to get the new syscall number. And arm64 unistd.h header was converted to use the generic 64-bit header. Addressing this perf tools build warning: Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: diff -u tools/scripts/syscall.tbl scripts/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/s390/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/mips/entry/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/arm/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/sh/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/sparc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/perf/arch/xtensa/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl diff -u tools/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h diff -u tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410001125.391820-6-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tools: Fix is_compat_mode build break in ppc64

2025-03-24T06:14:19Z

Commit 54f9aa1092457 ("tools/perf/powerpc/util: Add support to handle compatible mode PVR for perf json events") introduced to select proper JSON events in case of compat mode using auxiliary vector. But this caused a compilation error in ppc64 Big Endian. arch/powerpc/util/header.c: In function 'is_compat_mode': arch/powerpc/util/header.c:20:21: error: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Werror=int-to-pointer-cast] 20 | if (!strcmp((char *)platform, (char *)base_platform)) | ^ arch/powerpc/util/header.c:20:39: error: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Werror=int-to-pointer-cast] 20 | if (!strcmp((char *)platform, (char *)base_platform)) | Commit saved the getauxval(AT_BASE_PLATFORM) and getauxval(AT_PLATFORM) return values in u64 which causes the compilation error. Patch fixes this issue by changing u64 to "unsigned long". Fixes: 54f9aa1092457 ("tools/perf/powerpc/util: Add support to handle compatible mode PVR for perf json events") Signed-off-by: Likhitha Korrapati Reviewed-by: Athira Rajeev Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250321100726.699956-1-likhitha@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf build: Remove Makefile.syscalls

2025-03-21T05:58:20Z

Now a single beauty file is generated and used by all architectures, remove the per-architecture Makefiles, Kbuild files and previous generator script. Note: there was conversation with Charlie Jenkins and they'd written an alternate approach to support multiple architectures: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250114-perf_syscall_arch_runtime-v1-1-5b304e408e11@rivosinc.com/ It would have been better to have helped Charlie fix their series (my apologies) but they agreed that the approach taken here was likely best for longer term maintainability: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z6Jk_UN9i69QGqUj@ghost/ Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: Howard Chu Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319050741.269828-11-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf syscalltbl: Remove syscall_table.h

2025-03-21T05:57:35Z

The definition of "static const char *const syscalltbl[] = {" is done in a generated syscalls_32.h or syscalls_64.h that is architecture dependent. In order to include the appropriate file a syscall_table.h is found via the perf include path and it includes the syscalls_32.h or syscalls_64.h as appropriate. To support having multiple syscall tables, one for 32-bit and one for 64-bit, or for different architectures, an include path cannot be used. Remove syscall_table.h because of this and inline what it does into syscalltbl.c. For architectures without a syscall_table.h this will cause a failure to include either syscalls_32.h or syscalls_64.h rather than a failure to include syscall_table.h. For architectures that only included one or other, the behavior matches BITS_PER_LONG as previously done on architectures supporting both syscalls_32.h and syscalls_64.h. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: Howard Chu Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319050741.269828-4-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tools: Fix compile error on sample->user_regs

2025-02-14T20:33:41Z

It's recently changed to allocate dynamically but misses to update some arch-dependent codes to use perf_sample__user_regs(). Fixes: dc6d2bc2d893a878 ("perf sample: Make user_regs and intr_regs optional") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250214191641.756664-1-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tools powerpc: Use generic syscall table scripts

2025-01-10T13:57:01Z

Use the generic scripts to generate headers from the syscall table instead of the custom ones for powerpc. Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Günther Noack Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mickaël Salaün Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Will Deacon Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108-perf_syscalltbl-v6-14-7543b5293098@rivosinc.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250110100505.78d81450@canb.auug.org.au [ Stephen Rothwell noticed on linux-next that the powerpc build for perf was broken and ...] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250109-perf_powerpc_spu-v1-1-c097fc43737e@rivosinc.com [ ... Charlie fixed it up and asked for it to be squashed to avoid breaking bisection. ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo