Merge tag 'perf-core-2025-05-25' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf events updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core & generic-arch updates:
- Add support for dynamic constraints and propagate it to the Intel
driver (Kan Liang)
- Fix & enhance driver-specific throttling support (Kan Liang)
- Record sample last_period before updating on the x86 and PowerPC
platforms (Mark Barnett)
- Make perf_pmu_unregister() usable (Peter Zijlstra)
- Unify perf_event_free_task() / perf_event_exit_task_context()
(Peter Zijlstra)
- Simplify perf_event_release_kernel() and perf_event_free_task()
(Peter Zijlstra)
- Allocate non-contiguous AUX pages by default (Yabin Cui)
Uprobes updates:
- Add support to emulate NOP instructions (Jiri Olsa)
- selftests/bpf: Add 5-byte NOP uprobe trigger benchmark (Jiri Olsa)
x86 Intel PMU enhancements:
- Support Intel Auto Counter Reload [ACR] (Kan Liang)
- Add PMU support for Clearwater Forest (Dapeng Mi)
- Arch-PEBS preparatory changes: (Dapeng Mi)
- Parse CPUID archPerfmonExt leaves for non-hybrid CPUs
- Decouple BTS initialization from PEBS initialization
- Introduce pairs of PEBS static calls
x86 AMD PMU enhancements:
- Use hrtimer for handling overflows in the AMD uncore driver
(Sandipan Das)
- Prevent UMC counters from saturating (Sandipan Das)
Fixes and cleanups:
- Fix put_ctx() ordering (Frederic Weisbecker)
- Fix irq work dereferencing garbage (Frederic Weisbecker)
- Misc fixes and cleanups (Changbin Du, Frederic Weisbecker, Ian
Rogers, Ingo Molnar, Kan Liang, Peter Zijlstra, Qing Wang, Sandipan
Das, Thorsten Blum)"
* tag 'perf-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (60 commits)
perf/headers: Clean up <linux/perf_event.h> a bit
perf/uapi: Clean up <uapi/linux/perf_event.h> a bit
perf/uapi: Fix PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE comments in <uapi/linux/perf_event.h>
mips/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
xtensa/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
sparc/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
loongarch/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
csky/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
arc/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
alpha/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
perf/apple_m1: Remove driver-specific throttle support
perf/arm: Remove driver-specific throttle support
s390/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
powerpc/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support
perf/x86/zhaoxin: Remove driver-specific throttle support
perf/x86/amd: Remove driver-specific throttle support
perf/x86/intel: Remove driver-specific throttle support
perf: Only dump the throttle log for the leader
perf: Fix the throttle logic for a group
perf/core: Add the is_event_in_freq_mode() helper to simplify the code
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