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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: 7678523109d1d9ee ("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>
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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>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools
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 c69993ecdd4d: "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
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
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
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Remove the newline which is printed during feature discovery
when nothing else is printed.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121095340.464045-5-alexandre.chartre@oracle.com
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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>
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not available
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: 970ae86307718c34 ("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>
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Commit a808a2b35f66 ("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: a808a2b35f66 ("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
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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>
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Clang's -dumpmachine outputs "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu", which does not
match the MultiArch convention. This prevents the build system from
detecting installed packages.
Fix by stripping the trailing '-' from CROSS_COMPILE when setting
CROSS_ARCH.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251006-perf_build_android_ndk-v3-3-4305590795b2@arm.com
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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The feature test programs are built without enabling '-Wall -Werror'
options. As a result, a feature may appear to be available, but later
building in perf can fail with stricter checks.
Make the feature test program use the same warning options as perf.
Fixes: 1925459b4d92 ("tools build: Fix feature Makefile issues with 'O='")
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251006-perf_build_android_ndk-v3-1-4305590795b2@arm.com
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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The feature test is unnecessary as the LIBBPF_CURRENT_VERSION_GEQ(1,7)
macro can be used instead. The only use was in perf and this is now
removed.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Blake Jones <blakejones@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Added in commit cbefd24f0aee3a5d ("tools build: Add test to check if
slang.h is in /usr/include/slang/") this feature was to fix build
support on now unsupported versions of RHEL 5 and 6. As 6 years has
passed let's remove the workaround.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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As perf no longer tests for this feature, and it was the only user,
remove the feature test.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[ Remove the call to main_test_get_current_dir_name() from main() in test-all.c, otherwise it will always fail ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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perf doesn't use libtracefs and so it doesn't make sense to assume it is
always available when building test-all.bin, defeating the feature check
speedup it provides.
The other tools/build/ users such as rtla, rv, etc call $(feature_check
libtracefs) to check its availability instead of using the test-all.bin
mechanism, stopping the build and asking for libtracefs-devel to be
installed.
Remove it from FEATURE_TESTS_BASIC to not have it as available, as noted
by Ian Rogers during review.
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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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>
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Remove all occurrence of libcrypto in the build system.
Signed-off-by: Yuzhuo Jing <yuzhuo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625202311.23244-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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These are leftovers noticed while updating a build container.
We don't need those so that test-all.c can build and thus speed up the
feature detection.
Test for those features only if the user asks for BUILD_NONDISTRO=1 to
build with libbfd.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250620212435.93846-4-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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This creates a config option that detects libbpf's ability to display
character arrays as strings, which was just added to the BPF tree
(https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/87c9c79a02b4).
To test this change, I built perf (from later in this patch set) with:
- static libbpf (default, using source from kernel tree)
- dynamic libbpf (LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1 LIBBPF_INCLUDE=/usr/local/include)
For both the static and dynamic versions, I used headers with and without
the ".emit_strings" option.
I verified that of the four resulting binaries, the two with
".emit_strings" would successfully record BPF_METADATA events, and the two
without wouldn't. All four binaries would successfully display
BPF_METADATA events, because the relevant bit of libbpf code is only used
during "perf record".
Signed-off-by: Blake Jones <blakejones@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612194939.162730-2-blakejones@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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Commit 76a97cf2e169 ("perf build: Remove libbpf pre-1.0 feature
tests") removed the libbpf feature test logic used by perf in favor of
using LIBBPF_MAJOR_VERSION. Remove some build targets that should have
been removed as part of that clean up.
Fixes: 76a97cf2e169 ("perf build: Remove libbpf pre-1.0 feature tests")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250603221358.2562167-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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Since dd317df072071903 ("perf build: Make binutil libraries opt in")
doesn't try to build with binutils libraries, so showing that it is OFF
when building causes just distraction, remove it from FEATURES_DISPLAY.
For people that for some reason notice that there is always 'perf -vv',
a short hand for 'perf version --build-options' and 'perf check feature
libbfd' that now explains why it is not built:
$ perf check feature libbfd
libbfd: [ OFF ] # HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT ( tip: Deprecated, license incompatibility, use BUILD_NONDISTRO=1 and install binutils-dev[el] )
$
Fixes: dd317df072071903 ("perf build: Make binutil libraries opt in")
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Z--pWmTHGb62_83e@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Since 13e17c9ff49119aa ("perf build: Make libunwind opt-in rather than
opt-out") doesn't try to build with libunwind, so showing that it is OFF
when building causes just distraction, remove it from FEATURES_DISPLAY.
For people that for some reason notice that there is always 'perf -vv',
a short hand for 'perf version --build-options' and 'perf check feature
libunwind' that now explains why it is not built:
$ perf check feature libunwind
libunwind: [ OFF ] # HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT ( tip: Deprecated, use LIBUNWIND=1 and install libunwind-dev[el] to build with it )
$
Fixes: 13e17c9ff49119aa ("perf build: Make libunwind opt-in rather than opt-out")
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Z--pWmTHGb62_83e@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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The tools/build/feature/test-all.c file tries to detect the expected,
most common set of libraries/features we expect to have available to
build perf with.
At some point libunwind was deemed not to be part of that set of
libries, but the patches making it to be opt-in ended up forgetting some
details, fix one more.
Testing it:
$ rm -rf /tmp/build/$(basename $PWD)/ ; mkdir -p /tmp/build/$(basename $PWD)/
$ rpm -q libunwind-devel
libunwind-devel-1.8.0-3.fc40.x86_64
$ make -k LIBUNWIND=1 CORESIGHT=1 O=/tmp/build/$(basename $PWD)/ -C tools/perf install-bin |& grep unwind && ldd ~/bin/perf | grep unwind
... libunwind: [ on ]
CC /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/arch/x86/tests/dwarf-unwind.o
CC /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/arch/x86/util/unwind-libunwind.o
CC /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/util/arm64-frame-pointer-unwind-support.o
CC /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/tests/dwarf-unwind.o
CC /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/util/unwind-libunwind-local.o
CC /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/util/unwind-libunwind.o
libunwind-x86_64.so.8 => /lib64/libunwind-x86_64.so.8 (0x00007f615a549000)
libunwind.so.8 => /lib64/libunwind.so.8 (0x00007f615a52f000)
$ sudo rpm -e libunwind-devel
$ rm -rf /tmp/build/$(basename $PWD)/ ; mkdir -p /tmp/build/$(basename $PWD)/
$ make -k LIBUNWIND=1 CORESIGHT=1 O=/tmp/build/$(basename $PWD)/ -C tools/perf install-bin |& grep unwind && ldd ~/bin/perf | grep unwind
Makefile.config:653: No libunwind found. Please install libunwind-dev[el] >= 1.1 and/or set LIBUNWIND_DIR
... libunwind: [ OFF ]
CC /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/arch/x86/tests/dwarf-unwind.o
CC /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/arch/x86/util/unwind-libdw.o
CC /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/util/arm64-frame-pointer-unwind-support.o
CC /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/tests/dwarf-unwind.o
CC /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/util/unwind-libdw.o
$
Should be in a separate patch, but tired now, so also adding a message
about the need to use LIBUNWIND=1 in the output when its not available,
so done here as well.
So, now when the devel files are not available we get:
$ make -k LIBUNWIND=1 CORESIGHT=1 O=/tmp/build/$(basename $PWD)/ -C tools/perf install-bin |& grep unwind && ldd ~/bin/perf | grep unwind
Makefile.config:653: No libunwind found. Please install libunwind-dev[el] >= 1.1 and/or set LIBUNWIND_DIR and set LIBUNWIND=1 in the make command line as it is opt-in now
... libunwind: [ OFF ]
$
Fixes: 13e17c9ff49119aa ("perf build: Make libunwind opt-in rather than opt-out")
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Z_AnsW9oJzFbhIFC@x1
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools
Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"perf record:
- Introduce latency profiling using scheduler information.
The latency profiling is to show impacts on wall-time rather than
cpu-time. By tracking context switches, it can weight samples and
find which part of the code contributed more to the execution
latency.
The value (period) of the sample is weighted by dividing it by the
number of parallel execution at the moment. The parallelism is
tracked in perf report with sched-switch records. This will reduce
the portion that are run in parallel and in turn increase the
portion of serial executions.
For now, it's limited to profile processes, IOW system-wide
profiling is not supported. You can add --latency option to enable
this.
$ perf record --latency -- make -C tools/perf
I've run the above command for perf build which adds -j option to
make with the number of CPUs in the system internally. Normally
it'd show something like below:
$ perf report -F overhead,comm
...
#
# Overhead Command
# ........ ...............
#
78.97% cc1
6.54% python3
4.21% shellcheck
3.28% ld
1.80% as
1.37% cc1plus
0.80% sh
0.62% clang
0.56% gcc
0.44% perl
0.39% make
...
The cc1 takes around 80% of the overhead as it's the actual
compiler. However it runs in parallel so its contribution to
latency may be less than that. Now, perf report will show both
overhead and latency (if --latency was given at record time) like
below:
$ perf report -s comm
...
#
# Overhead Latency Command
# ........ ........ ...............
#
78.97% 48.66% cc1
6.54% 25.68% python3
4.21% 0.39% shellcheck
3.28% 13.70% ld
1.80% 2.56% as
1.37% 3.08% cc1plus
0.80% 0.98% sh
0.62% 0.61% clang
0.56% 0.33% gcc
0.44% 1.71% perl
0.39% 0.83% make
...
You can see latency of cc1 goes down to around 50% and python3 and
ld contribute a lot more than their overhead. You can use --latency
option in perf report to get the same result but ordered by
latency.
$ perf report --latency -s comm
perf report:
- As a side effect of the latency profiling work, it adds a new
output field 'latency' and a sort key 'parallelism'. The below is a
result from my system with 64 CPUs. The build was well-parallelized
but contained some serial portions.
$ perf report -s parallelism
...
#
# Overhead Latency Parallelism
# ........ ........ ...........
#
16.95% 1.54% 62
13.38% 1.24% 61
12.50% 70.47% 1
11.81% 1.06% 63
7.59% 0.71% 60
4.33% 12.20% 2
3.41% 0.33% 59
2.05% 0.18% 64
1.75% 1.09% 9
1.64% 1.85% 5
...
- Support Feodra mini-debuginfo which is a LZMA compressed symbol
table inside ".gnu_debugdata" ELF section.
perf annotate:
- Add --code-with-type option to enable data-type profiling with the
usual annotate output.
Instead of focusing on data structure, it shows code annotation
together with data type it accesses in case the instruction refers
to a memory location (and it was able to resolve the target data
type). Currently it only works with --stdio.
$ perf annotate --stdio --code-with-type
...
Percent | Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux for cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=30/pp (18 samples, percent: local period)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
: 0 0xffffffff81050610 <__fdget>:
0.00 : ffffffff81050610: callq 0xffffffff81c01b80 <__fentry__> # data-type: (stack operation)
0.00 : ffffffff81050615: pushq %rbp # data-type: (stack operation)
0.00 : ffffffff81050616: movq %rsp, %rbp
0.00 : ffffffff81050619: pushq %r15 # data-type: (stack operation)
0.00 : ffffffff8105061b: pushq %r14 # data-type: (stack operation)
0.00 : ffffffff8105061d: pushq %rbx # data-type: (stack operation)
0.00 : ffffffff8105061e: subq $0x10, %rsp
0.00 : ffffffff81050622: movl %edi, %ebx
0.00 : ffffffff81050624: movq %gs:0x7efc4814(%rip), %rax # 0x14e40 <current_task> # data-type: struct task_struct* +0
0.00 : ffffffff8105062c: movq 0x8d0(%rax), %r14 # data-type: struct task_struct +0x8d0 (files)
0.00 : ffffffff81050633: movl (%r14), %eax # data-type: struct files_struct +0 (count.counter)
0.00 : ffffffff81050636: cmpl $0x1, %eax
0.00 : ffffffff81050639: je 0xffffffff810506a9 <__fdget+0x99>
0.00 : ffffffff8105063b: movq 0x20(%r14), %rcx # data-type: struct files_struct +0x20 (fdt)
0.00 : ffffffff8105063f: movl (%rcx), %eax # data-type: struct fdtable +0 (max_fds)
0.00 : ffffffff81050641: cmpl %ebx, %eax
0.00 : ffffffff81050643: jbe 0xffffffff810506ef <__fdget+0xdf>
0.00 : ffffffff81050649: movl %ebx, %r15d
5.56 : ffffffff8105064c: movq 0x8(%rcx), %rdx # data-type: struct fdtable +0x8 (fd)
...
The "# data-type:" part was added with this change. The first few
entries are not very interesting. But later you can it accesses a
couple of fields in the task_struct, files_struct and fdtable.
perf trace:
- Support syscall tracing for different ABI. For example it can trace
system calls for 32-bit applications on 64-bit kernel
transparently.
- Add --summary-mode=total option to show global syscall summary. The
default is 'thread' to show per-thread syscall summary.
Python support:
- Add more interfaces to 'perf' module to parse events, and config,
enable or disable the event list properly so that it can implement
basic functionalities purely in Python. There is an example code
for these new interfaces in python/tracepoint.py.
- Add mypy and pylint support to enable build time checking. Fix some
code based on the findings from these tools.
Internals:
- Introduce io_dir__readdir() API to make directory traveral (usually
for proc or sysfs) efficient with less memory footprint.
JSON vendor events:
- Add events and metrics for ARM Neoverse N3 and V3
- Update events and metrics on various Intel CPUs
- Add/update events for a number of SiFive processors"
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.15-2025-03-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (229 commits)
perf bpf-filter: Fix a parsing error with comma
perf report: Fix a memory leak for perf_env on AMD
perf trace: Fix wrong size to bpf_map__update_elem call
perf tools: annotate asm_pure_loop.S
perf python: Fix setup.py mypy errors
perf test: Address attr.py mypy error
perf build: Add pylint build tests
perf build: Add mypy build tests
perf build: Rename TEST_LOGS to SHELL_TEST_LOGS
tools/build: Don't pass test log files to linker
perf bench sched pipe: fix enforced blocking reads in worker_thread
perf tools: Fix is_compat_mode build break in ppc64
perf build: filter all combinations of -flto for libperl
perf vendor events arm64 AmpereOneX: Fix frontend_bound calculation
perf vendor events arm64: AmpereOne/AmpereOneX: Mark LD_RETIRED impacted by errata
perf trace: Fix evlist memory leak
perf trace: Fix BTF memory leak
perf trace: Make syscall table stable
perf syscalltbl: Mask off ABI type for MIPS system calls
perf build: Remove Makefile.syscalls
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing tooling updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Allow RTLA to collect data via BPF
The current implementation of rtla uses libtracefs and libtraceevent
to pull sample events generated by the timerlat tracer from the trace
buffer. rtla then processes the sample by updating the histogram and
summary (current, maximum, minimum, and sum values) as well as checks
if tracing has been stopped due to threshold overflow.
In use cases where a large number of samples is being generated, that
is, with measurements running on many CPUs and with a low interval,
this sample processing design causes a significant CPU load on the
rtla side. Furthermore, with >100 CPUs and 100us interval, rtla was
reported as not being able to keep up with the samples and dropping
most of them, leading to it being unusable.
Change the way the timerlat trace processes samples by attaching a
BPF program to the trace event using the BPF skeleton feature of
bpftool. Unlike the current implementation, the BPF implementation
does not check whether tracing is stopped (in BPF mode, tracing is
always off to improve performance), but waits for a write to a BPF
ringbuffer instead. This allows rtla to exit immediately when a
threshold is violated, without waiting for the next iteration of the
while loop.
If the requirements for the BPF implementation are not met, either at
build time or at run time, the current implementation is used as
fallback. Which implementation is being used can be seen when running
rtla timerlat with "-D" option. rtla can be forced to run in non-BPF
mode by setting the RTLA_NO_BPF option to 1, for debugging purposes.
- Fix LD_FLAGS from being dropped in build
- Refactor code to remove duplication of save_trace_to_file
- Always set options and do not rely on default settings
Do not rely on the default kernel settings of the tracers when
starting. They could have been changed by the user which gives
inconsistent results. Always set the options that rtla expects.
- Add creation of ctags and TAGS for traversing code
* tag 'trace-tools-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
rtla: Add the ability to create ctags and etags
rtla/tests: Test setting default options
rtla/tests: Reset osnoise options before check
rtla: Always set all tracer options
rtla/osnoise: Set OSNOISE_WORKLOAD to true
rtla: Unify apply_config between top and hist
rtla/osnoise: Unify params struct
rtla: Fix segfault in save_trace_to_file call
tools/build: Use SYSTEM_BPFTOOL for system bpftool
rtla: Refactor save_trace_to_file
tools/rv: Keep user LDFLAGS in build
rtla/timerlat: Test BPF mode
rtla/timerlat_top: Use BPF to collect samples
rtla/timerlat_top: Move divisor to update
rtla/timerlat_hist: Use BPF to collect samples
rtla/timerlat: Add BPF skeleton to collect samples
rtla: Add optional dependency on BPF tooling
tools/build: Add bpftool-skeletons feature test
rtla/timerlat: Unify params struct
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The feature test for system bpftool uses BPFTOOL as the variable to set
its path, defaulting to just "bpftool" if not set by the user.
This conflicts with selftests and a few other utilities, which expect
BPFTOOL to be set to the in-tree bpftool path by default. For example,
bpftool selftests fail to build:
$ make -C tools/testing/selftests/bpf/
make: Entering directory '/home/tglozar/dev/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf'
make: *** No rule to make target 'bpftool', needed by '/home/tglozar/dev/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/include/vmlinux.h'. Stop.
make: Leaving directory '/home/tglozar/dev/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf'
Fix the problem by renaming the variable used for system bpftool from
BPFTOOL to SYSTEM_BPFTOOL, so that the new usage does not conflict with
the existing one of BPFTOOL.
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Luis Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250326004018.248357-1-tglozar@redhat.com
Fixes: 8a635c3856dd ("tools/build: Add bpftool-skeletons feature test")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/5df6968a-2e5f-468e-b457-fc201535dd4c@linux.ibm.com/
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Separate test log files from object files. Depend on test log output
but don't pass to the linker.
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311213628.569562-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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Add bpftool-skeletons feature test, testing the presence of a bpftool
capable of generating skeletons.
This is to be used for tools that do not require building their own
bootstrap bpftool from the kernel source tree.
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Luis Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Cc: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250218145859.27762-3-tglozar@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Commit f2868b1a66d4f40f ("perf tools: Expose quiet/verbose variables in
Makefile.perf") moved the quiet infrastructure out of
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