linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] perf more ELF machine usage

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Message-ID: <aXfeNfYgDVXhkrKM@x1>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:35:49 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>,
	Shimin Guo <shimin.guo@...dio.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Leo Yan <leo.yan@....com>, Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] perf more ELF machine usage

On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 05:53:09PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 05:52:39PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 04:16:08PM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > > Switch 3 more cases where the perf_env arch was being used to
> > > determine the architecture type and switch to using the ELF
> > > machine. This includes the addition of minimal instruction parsing in
> > > perf script for architectures other than x86, or x86 when
> > > cross-platform.
> > > 
> > > Note: this series will conflict with the e_flags series:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260123222209.1181249-1-irogers@google.com/
> > > that adds an additional out argument to thread__e_machine. In all the
> > > cases here that argument should be NULL. So:
> > >   thread__e_machine(thread, machine)
> > > becomes:
> > >   thread__e_machine(thread, machine, /*e_flags=*/NULL)
> > 
> > This one isn't applying.
> 
> ⬢ [acme@...lbx perf-tools-next]$        git am ./20260123_irogers_perf_more_elf_machine_usage.mbx
> Applying: perf script: Fix script_fetch_insn for more than just x86
> Applying: perf callchain: Switch callchain_param_setup from an arch to an e_machine

So, please try to refresh it with what is in tmp.perf-tools-next now.

⬢ [acme@...lbx perf-tools-next]$ git log --oneline -10
0a6fb6604746c92b (HEAD -> perf-tools-next, x1/perf-tools-next, x1/HEAD, perf-tools-next/tmp.perf-tools-next, five/perf-tools-next, five/HEAD, acme/tmp.perf-tools-next) perf session: Print all machines in session dump
2becdd163ab37c9d perf unwind-libdw: Wire up e_flags for CSKY
0403930f7b1534e3 perf perf_regs: Accurately compute register names for CSKY
4e66527f8859a661 perf thread: Add optional e_flags output argument to thread__e_machine
7d0ebeb6c0f735d4 perf dso: Factor out e_machine reading for use in thread
76b2cf07a6d2a836 perf vendor events amd: Fix Zen 5 MAB allocation events
008603bda19b2968 perf test: Fix test perf evlist for z/VM s390x
dda5f926a1006c73 perf annotate: Fix BUILD_NONDISTRO=1 missing args->ms conversions to pointer
9966b382d06733f7 tools headers: Don't check arm64's unistd.h
129bb23a6f7d0226 Revert "perf tools: Fix arm64 build by generating unistd_64.h"
⬢ [acme@...lbx perf-tools-next]$

- Arnaldo