perf tools: Fix in-source libperf build

When libperf is built alone in-source, $(OUTPUT) isn't set. This causes
the generated uapi path to resolve to '/../arch' which results in a
permissions error:

perf tools: Fix in-source libperf build

When libperf is built alone in-source, $(OUTPUT) isn't set. This causes
the generated uapi path to resolve to '/../arch' which results in a
permissions error:

mkdir: cannot create directory '/../arch': Permission denied

Fix it by removing the preceding '/..' which means that it gets
generated either in the tools/lib/perf part of the tree or the OUTPUT
folder. Some other rules that rely on OUTPUT further refine this
conditionally depending on whether it's an in-source or out-of-source
build, but I don't think we need the extra complexity here. And this
rule is slightly different to others because the header is needed by
both libperf and Perf. This is further complicated by the fact that Perf
always passes O=... to libperf even for in source builds, meaning that
OUTPUT isn't set consistently between projects.

Because we're no longer going one level up to try to generate the file
in the tools/ folder, Perf's include rule needs to descend into libperf.
Also fix the clean rule while we're here.

Reported-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <[email protected]>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/[email protected]/
Fixes: bfb713ea53c7 ("perf tools: Fix arm64 build by generating unistd_64.h")
Signed-off-by: James Clark <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250429-james-perf-fix-libperf-in-source-build-v1-1-a1a827ac15e5@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Fix arm64 build by generating unistd_64.h

Since pulling in the kernel changes in commit 22f72088ffe6 ("tools
headers: Update the syscall table with the kernel sources"), arm64 is
no long

perf tools: Fix arm64 build by generating unistd_64.h

Since pulling in the kernel changes in commit 22f72088ffe6 ("tools
headers: Update the syscall table with the kernel sources"), arm64 is
no longer using a generic syscall header and generates one from the
syscall table. Therefore we must also generate the syscall header for
arm64 before building Perf.

Add it as a dependency to libperf which uses one syscall number. Perf
uses more, but as libperf is a dependency of Perf it will be generated
for both.

Future platforms that need this will have to add their own syscall-y
targets in libperf manually. Unfortunately the arch specific files that
do this (e.g. arch/arm64/include/asm/Kbuild) can't easily be imported
into the Perf build. But Perf only needs a subset of the generated files
anyway, so redefining them is probably the correct thing to do.

Fixes: 22f72088ffe6 ("tools headers: Update the syscall table with the kernel sources")
Signed-off-by: James Clark <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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libperf: Don't remove -g when EXTRA_CFLAGS are used

When using EXTRA_CFLAGS, for example "EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DREFCNT_CHECKING=1",
this construct stops setting -g which you'd expect would not be affected

libperf: Don't remove -g when EXTRA_CFLAGS are used

When using EXTRA_CFLAGS, for example "EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DREFCNT_CHECKING=1",
this construct stops setting -g which you'd expect would not be affected
by adding extra flags. Additionally, EXTRA_CFLAGS should be the last
thing to be appended so that it can be used to undo any defaults. And no
condition is required, just += appends to any existing CFLAGS and also
appends or doesn't append EXTRA_CFLAGS if they are or aren't set.

It's not clear why DEBUG=1 is required for -g in Perf when in libperf
it's always on, but I don't think we need to change that behavior now
because someone may be depending on it.

Signed-off-by: James Clark <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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tools: Remove redundant quiet setup

Q is exported from Makefile.include so it is not necessary to manually
set it.

Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@

tools: Remove redundant quiet setup

Q is exported from Makefile.include so it is not necessary to manually
set it.

Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Hao Luo <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Cc: John Fastabend <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: KP Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: Lukasz Luba <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <[email protected]>
Cc: Mykola Lysenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Cc: Yonghong Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Zhang Rui <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf cpumap: Add reference count checking

Enabled when REFCNT_CHECKING is defined. The change adds a memory
allocated pointer that is interposed between the reference counted cpu
map at a get and fr

perf cpumap: Add reference count checking

Enabled when REFCNT_CHECKING is defined. The change adds a memory
allocated pointer that is interposed between the reference counted cpu
map at a get and freed by a put. The pointer replaces the original
perf_cpu_map struct, so use of the perf_cpu_map via APIs remains
unchanged. Any use of the cpu map without the API requires two versions,
handled via the RC_CHK_ACCESS macro.

This change is intended to catch:

- use after put: using a cpumap after you have put it will cause a
segv.
- unbalanced puts: two puts for a get will result in a double free
that can be captured and reported by tools like address sanitizer,
including with the associated stack traces of allocation and frees.
- missing puts: if a put is missing then the get turns into a memory
leak that can be reported by leak sanitizer, including the stack
trace at the point the get occurs.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Darren Hart <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: German Gomez <[email protected]>
Cc: Hao Luo <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: John Garry <[email protected]>
Cc: Kajol Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Miaoqian Lin <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Riccardo Mancini <[email protected]>
Cc: Shunsuke Nakamura <[email protected]>
Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Brennan <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Richter <[email protected]>,
Cc: Yury Norov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
[ Extracted from a larger patch ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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libperf: Fix install_pkgconfig target

Commit 47e02b94a4c98dcc ("tools lib perf: Add dependency test to install_headers")
misses the notion of $(DESTDIR_SQ) for install_pkgconfig target, which leads

libperf: Fix install_pkgconfig target

Commit 47e02b94a4c98dcc ("tools lib perf: Add dependency test to install_headers")
misses the notion of $(DESTDIR_SQ) for install_pkgconfig target, which leads to
error:

install: cannot create regular file '/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libperf.pc': Permission denied
make: *** [Makefile:210: install_pkgconfig] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Rix <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y5w/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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tools lib perf: Add dependency test to install_headers

Compute the headers to be installed from their source headers and make
each have its own build target to install it. Using dependencies
avoids

tools lib perf: Add dependency test to install_headers

Compute the headers to be installed from their source headers and make
each have its own build target to install it. Using dependencies
avoids headers being reinstalled and getting a new timestamp which
then causes files that depend on the header to be rebuilt.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Rix <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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tools lib perf: Make install_headers clearer

Add libperf to the name so that this install_headers build appears
different to similar targets in different libraries.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <iroge

tools lib perf: Make install_headers clearer

Add libperf to the name so that this install_headers build appears
different to similar targets in different libraries.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Hao Luo <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: John Fastabend <[email protected]>
Cc: KP Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <[email protected]>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Yonghong Song <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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tools lib perf: Add missing install headers

Headers necessary for the perf build. Note, internal headers are also
installed as these are necessary for the build.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@

tools lib perf: Add missing install headers

Headers necessary for the perf build. Note, internal headers are also
installed as these are necessary for the build.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B) with $(or A,B)

$(or ...) is available since GNU Make 3.81, and useful to shorten the
code in some places.

Covert as follows:

$(if A,A,B) --> $(or A,B)

This patch a

kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B) with $(or A,B)

$(or ...) is available since GNU Make 3.81, and useful to shorten the
code in some places.

Covert as follows:

$(if A,A,B) --> $(or A,B)

This patch also converts:

$(if A, A, B) --> $(or A, B)

Strictly speaking, the latter is not an equivalent conversion because
GNU Make keeps spaces after commas; if A is not empty, $(if A, A, B)
expands to " A", while $(or A, B) expands to "A".

Anyway, preceding spaces are not significant in the code hunks I touched.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <[email protected]>

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libperf: Change tests to single static and shared binaries

Make tests to be two binaries 'tests_static' and 'tests_shared', so the
maintenance is easier.

Adding tests under libperf build system, so

libperf: Change tests to single static and shared binaries

Make tests to be two binaries 'tests_static' and 'tests_shared', so the
maintenance is easier.

Adding tests under libperf build system, so we define all the flags just
once.

Adding make-tests tule to just compile tests without running them.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Petlan <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Shunsuke Nakamura <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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libperf: Add man pages

Change the man page generation to asciidoc, because it's easier to use
and has been more commonly used in related projects. Remove the current
rst pages.

Add 3 man pages to h

libperf: Add man pages

Change the man page generation to asciidoc, because it's easier to use
and has been more commonly used in related projects. Remove the current
rst pages.

Add 3 man pages to have a base for more additions:

libperf.3 - overall description
libperf-counting.7 - counting basics explained on simple example
libperf-sampling.7 - sampling basics explained on simple example

The plan is to add more man pages to cover the basic API.

The build generates html and man pages:

$ cd tools/lib/perf/Documentation
$ make
ASCIIDOC libperf.xml
XMLTO libperf.3
ASCIIDOC libperf-counting.xml
XMLTO libperf-counting.7
ASCIIDOC libperf-sampling.xml
XMLTO libperf-sampling.7
ASCIIDOC libperf.html
ASCIIDOC libperf-counting.html
ASCIIDOC libperf-sampling.html

Add the following install targets:

install-man - man pages
install-html - html version of man pages
install-examples - examples mentioned in the man pages

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Petlan <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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libperf: Move to tools/lib/perf

Move libperf from its current location under tools/perf to a separate
directory under tools/lib/.

Also change various paths (mainly includes) to reflect the libperf

libperf: Move to tools/lib/perf

Move libperf from its current location under tools/perf to a separate
directory under tools/lib/.

Also change various paths (mainly includes) to reflect the libperf move
to a separate directory and add a new directory under MANIFEST.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Petlan <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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