kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tools/perf/Makefile.perf, branch master

perf build: install-build-deps: add Debian devel package mapping

2026-08-12T13:17:48+00:00

With the Fedora and Ubuntu mappings in place, this patch adds Debian support: Debian installs the same devel packages, under the same names, as the Ubuntu mapping, so it reuses debian_pkg_for() and debian_base_pkgs as-is, with only auto-detection in detect_distro() (and the shared apt-get install path) added, keeping the script's per-distro dispatch ready for distros with their own package names. Validated on a fresh Debian 13 (trixie) container so the host system is not modified: distrobox create --image debian:trixie distrobox enter debian-trixie make -C tools/perf install-build-deps which installed the 29 mapped packages; re-running the target is a no-op (apt-get reports "0 newly installed"). A subsequent clean build enabled the same feature set as Ubuntu: 'perf version --build-options' shows every feature with an external dependency Debian has a package for [on], including the BPF skeletons compiled with clang/llvm (libLLVM), the python binding and the C++-based features, with only the deliberately unmapped libbfd family, libperl, libunwind and the CoreSight (libopencsd) packages [OFF]. RHEL, whose package mapping is largely similar to Fedora's, is the remaining planned distro, to be enabled once that mapping is validated on it. Example of its --list: $ grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 44 (Toolbx Container Image)" $ tools/perf/scripts/install-build-deps.sh --list --distro debian bison clang default-jdk flex g++ gcc libbabeltrace2-dev libbpf-dev libc6-dev libcapstone-dev libdebuginfod-dev libdw-dev libelf-dev liblzma-dev libnuma-dev libpfm4-dev libslang2-dev libssl-dev libtraceevent-dev libzstd-dev linux-libc-dev llvm-dev make pkg-config python3-dev python3-setuptools rustc systemtap-sdt-dev zlib1g-dev $ Assisted-by: opencode:deepseek-v4-flash-free Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf build: install-build-deps: add Ubuntu devel package mapping

2026-08-12T13:17:48+00:00

With the framework and Fedora mapping in place, this patch adds the Ubuntu (apt) mapping: same feature-to-package correspondence as the Fedora one, adapted to Debian packaging conventions (libfoo-dev), on a per-distro dispatch so future distros can pick their own mapping or reuse one of these (Debian shares the Ubuntu mapping). Notable differences from Fedora: - base set: g++ (ships libstdc++-*-dev, covering cxa-demangle), pkg-config (installed implicitly by Fedora's default toolchain metapackage, but not by Ubuntu's), linux-libc-dev and libc6-dev instead of kernel-headers and glibc-devel, and rustc for rust; - cxa-demangle maps to nothing, covered by g++'s libstdc++; - the clang-bpf-co-re test needs the clang compiler binary (Fedora's clang-devel provides it transitively), and llvm-dev, which also brings llvm-config (deps on the llvm package), used by the llvm/llvm-perf tests; - libslang maps to libslang2-dev and jvmti to default-jdk; - the install command runs 'apt-get update' first since a fresh container has no package indexes, unlike dnf. Validated on a fresh Ubuntu 26.04 distrobox container so the host system is not modified: distrobox create --image ubuntu:26.04 distrobox enter ubuntu-26-04 make -C tools/perf install-build-deps which installed the 29 mapped packages; a subsequent clean O= build enabled every feature with an external dependency Ubuntu has a package for: perf's build-options then showed all of them [on], including the BPF skeletons requiring clang/llvm, the python binding and the C++-based features, with only the deliberately unmapped (deprecated) libbfd family, libperl and libunwind [OFF], and the build linked libpfm, libbabeltrace2-ctf-writer, libcapstone, libtraceevent, libslang, libnuma, libdw and libssl. Re-running the target is a no-op (apt-get reports "0 newly installed"). Debian (trixie) is the next planned distro: it shares this Ubuntu mapping, so enabling it reuses it as-is, once it gets validated on a Debian release. Example of its --list: $ grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 44 (Toolbx Container Image)" $ tools/perf/scripts/install-build-deps.sh --list --distro ubuntu bison clang default-jdk flex g++ gcc libbabeltrace2-dev libbpf-dev libc6-dev libcapstone-dev libdebuginfod-dev libdw-dev libelf-dev liblzma-dev libnuma-dev libpfm4-dev libslang2-dev libssl-dev libtraceevent-dev libzstd-dev linux-libc-dev llvm-dev make pkg-config python3-dev python3-setuptools rustc systemtap-sdt-dev zlib1g-dev $ Assisted-by: opencode:deepseek-v4-flash-free Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf build: Add install-build-deps framework to install devel packages

2026-08-12T13:17:48+00:00

Installing the development packages needed to build perf is error-prone on a fresh distro install: the packages are scattered across the feature tests in tools/build/feature/, each checking for a specific header/library, and the build only tells you what's missing after failing a check. This series adds a 'make -C tools/perf install-build-deps' target to install them in one go, deriving the package list from the feature tests themselves. This commit adds the framework, on top of the parse-time compiler probe guard from the previous commit: - the install-build-deps target in tools/perf/Makefile.perf, exempted from the config/feature detection pass, since it must run in a fresh container, before gcc or pkg-config exist, to install them; - the install-build-deps.sh script, with --list, --dry-run and --distro options, distro detection (Fedora and Ubuntu), dnf and apt-get drivers, root/passwordless-sudo handling, and the base packages common to any build: compiler, C++ compiler, make, flex, bison, libc and kernel headers, python3-setuptools (needed by the python binding) and rust (checked by the rust feature test); - the parse-time probes for optional tools, like pkg-config, use 'command -v' with stderr discarded, so a fresh container without them gets no 'which: no pkg-config in (...)' spew from make; - the script does not rely on 'set -e': its error paths are explicit, since the make target runs it via $(SHELL), where a shebang option would be ignored anyway, so direct and make-driven runs behave the same. The per-feature mappings, from each feature test to the devel package providing its headers on a given distro, are added by the follow-up patches, one per distro, together with the validation of each mapping in a fresh container: until then the target installs just the base toolchain. Assisted-by: opencode:deepseek-v4-flash-free Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

tools/build: selftests: Remove some duplicate toolchain definitions

2026-07-26T05:25:00+00:00

Try to remove some, but not all duplicate toolchain definitions. In these instances, their makefiles already include tools/scripts/Makefile.include which defines these in a consistent way. STRIP is the only one that was set with an '=', but I don't think it was significant so that difference can be dropped. Signed-off-by: James Clark Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Ihor Solodrai Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

tools/build: Allow versioning LLVM readelf

2026-07-26T05:25:00+00:00

Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst mentions that readelf is included in the LLVM toolchain, but it's not currently included in this block. Add it so that LLVM=... options also apply to readelf. Users in tools/ were Perf which was hardcoding it, and another was the BPF makefile. Both already include Makefile.include so convert them to use the new variables. Where readelf wasn't doing anything arch specific, use HOSTREADELF because it's more likely to be installed. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: James Clark Acked-by: Ihor Solodrai Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf build: Do not pass -static to dlfilters

2026-07-13T20:19:08+00:00

The recent commit caused a failure in make build-test for static builds. Let's not pass -static the option to dlfilters which is dynamically loaded as it's hard-coded with -shared even for static builds. Tested-by: Leo Yan Cc: Trevor Allison Fixes: e1065ed188cf ("perf build: Add LDFLAGS to dlfilters .so link") Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf build: Add LDFLAGS to dlfilters .so link

2026-07-01T23:50:56+00:00

Build-time linker flags were not applied when linking dlfilters. Pass LDFLAGS for consistency with the other link rules. Signed-off-by: Trevor Allison Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf python: Add perf.pyi stubs file

2026-06-30T17:17:18+00:00

Add Python type stubs for the perf module to improve IDE support and static analysis. Includes docstrings for classes, methods, and constants derived from C source and JSON definitions. Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alice Rogers Cc: Dapeng Mi Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Richter Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf test cs-etm: Remove unused Coresight workloads

2026-06-10T21:55:49+00:00

These are now unused and had various issues like not working with out of source builds and being slow to compile. Delete them. Signed-off-by: James Clark Tested-by: Leo Yan Cc: Amir Ayupov Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paschalis Mpeis Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf build: Respect V=1 for Python extension builds

2026-06-10T19:59:07+00:00

Make util/setup.py respect the verbose build flag (V=1) by conditionally passing --quiet only when not in verbose mode. This eases debugging of Python extension compilation issues and aligns with the existing perf build system behavior. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Jens Remus Tested-by: Jan Polensky Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Richter Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo