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* [RFC PATCH v1 0/7] perf libunwind multiple remote support
@ 2026-02-24 14:29 Ian Rogers
  2026-02-24 14:29 ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/7] tools build: Deduplicate test-libunwind for different architectures Ian Rogers
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  0 siblings, 7 replies; 30+ messages in thread
From: Ian Rogers @ 2026-02-24 14:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo,
	Namhyung Kim, Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa, Ian Rogers,
	Adrian Hunter, James Clark, John Garry, Will Deacon, Leo Yan,
	Paul Walmsley, Palmer Dabbelt, Albert Ou, Alexandre Ghiti,
	Dmitrii Dolgov, Blake Jones, Tomas Glozar, Yuzhuo Jing, Dapeng Mi,
	Shimin Guo, Athira Rajeev, Chun-Tse Shao, Howard Chu,
	linux-kernel, linux-perf-users, linux-arm-kernel, linux-riscv,
	Thomas Richter, libunwind-devel

Refactor the libunwind support so that whenever a remote target is
available, perf functions using the ELF machine can use that remote
target regardless of what the host/local machine is. Migrate existing
libunwind supported architectures like powerpc, arm64 and loongarch so
that they can work in a cross-architecture way. Add support for
RISC-V. Make the code more regular in function names, etc. and avoid
including a C-file. This increases the lines of code. It is similar in
style to the unwind-libdw implementation. It is hoped that the more
uniform nature of the code with help with refactoring the perf
registers for SIMD/APX support.

Aside from local host testing these patches are under tested, in part
as I'm failing to see how to build libunwind with support for multiple
remote targets. Please could I get help in testing, hence this being
an RFC.

Ian Rogers (7):
  tools build: Deduplicate test-libunwind for different architectures
  perf build: Be more programmatic when setting up libunwind variables
  perf build loongarch: Remove reference to missing file
  perf unwind-libunwind: Make libunwind register reading cross platform
  perf unwind-libunwind: Move flush/finish access out of local
  perf unwind-libunwind: Remove libunwind-local
  perf unwind-libunwind: Add RISC-V libunwind support

 tools/build/feature/Makefile                  |  38 +-
 tools/build/feature/test-libunwind-aarch64.c  |  27 -
 tools/build/feature/test-libunwind-arm.c      |  28 -
 .../test-libunwind-debug-frame-aarch64.c      |  17 -
 .../feature/test-libunwind-debug-frame-arm.c  |  17 -
 .../feature/test-libunwind-debug-frame.c      |   1 -
 tools/build/feature/test-libunwind-x86.c      |  28 -
 tools/build/feature/test-libunwind-x86_64.c   |  28 -
 tools/build/feature/test-libunwind.c          |   1 -
 tools/perf/Makefile.config                    | 215 ++---
 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/Build                |   2 -
 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/unwind-libunwind.c   |  50 --
 tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build              |   1 -
 tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/unwind-libunwind.c |  17 -
 tools/perf/arch/loongarch/util/Build          |   3 -
 .../arch/loongarch/util/unwind-libunwind.c    |  82 --
 tools/perf/arch/mips/Build                    |   1 -
 tools/perf/arch/mips/util/Build               |   1 -
 tools/perf/arch/mips/util/unwind-libunwind.c  |  22 -
 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build            |   1 -
 .../perf/arch/powerpc/util/unwind-libunwind.c |  92 --
 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build                |   3 -
 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/unwind-libunwind.c   | 115 ---
 tools/perf/util/Build                         |   4 +-
 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/Build          |  11 +
 .../perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-arch.c | 319 +++++++
 .../perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-arch.h | 296 +++++++
 .../perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-arm.c  | 290 ++++++
 .../util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-arm64.c     | 289 ++++++
 .../perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-i386.c | 312 +++++++
 .../util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-loongarch.c | 297 +++++++
 .../perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-mips.c | 299 +++++++
 .../util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-ppc32.c     | 301 +++++++
 .../util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-ppc64.c     | 303 +++++++
 .../util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-riscv.c     | 297 +++++++
 .../perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-s390.c | 299 +++++++
 .../util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-x86_64.c    | 320 +++++++
 tools/perf/util/libunwind/arm64.c             |  40 -
 tools/perf/util/libunwind/x86_32.c            |  41 -
 tools/perf/util/maps.c                        |  29 +-
 tools/perf/util/maps.h                        |   4 +-
 tools/perf/util/thread.c                      |  29 +-
 tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c      | 832 ------------------
 tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind.c            | 677 ++++++++++++--
 tools/perf/util/unwind.h                      |  13 +-
 45 files changed, 4389 insertions(+), 1703 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-libunwind-aarch64.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-libunwind-arm.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-libunwind-debug-frame-aarch64.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-libunwind-debug-frame-arm.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-libunwind-x86.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-libunwind-x86_64.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/unwind-libunwind.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/unwind-libunwind.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/loongarch/util/unwind-libunwind.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/mips/Build
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/mips/util/Build
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/mips/util/unwind-libunwind.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/unwind-libunwind.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/unwind-libunwind.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/Build
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-arch.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-arch.h
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-arm.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-arm64.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-i386.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-loongarch.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-mips.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-ppc32.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-ppc64.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-riscv.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-s390.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind-arch/libunwind-x86_64.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind/arm64.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/libunwind/x86_32.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/unwind-libunwind-local.c

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2026-02-24 14:29 [RFC PATCH v1 0/7] perf libunwind multiple remote support Ian Rogers
2026-02-24 14:29 ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/7] tools build: Deduplicate test-libunwind for different architectures Ian Rogers
2026-02-24 14:29 ` [RFC PATCH v1 2/7] perf build: Be more programmatic when setting up libunwind variables Ian Rogers
2026-02-24 14:29 ` [RFC PATCH v1 3/7] perf build loongarch: Remove reference to missing file Ian Rogers
2026-02-24 14:29 ` [RFC PATCH v1 4/7] perf unwind-libunwind: Make libunwind register reading cross platform Ian Rogers
2026-02-24 14:29 ` [RFC PATCH v1 5/7] perf unwind-libunwind: Move flush/finish access out of local Ian Rogers
2026-02-24 14:29 ` [RFC PATCH v1 6/7] perf unwind-libunwind: Remove libunwind-local Ian Rogers
2026-02-24 14:29 ` [RFC PATCH v1 7/7] perf unwind-libunwind: Add RISC-V libunwind support Ian Rogers
2026-02-25 21:08   ` Andrew Jones
2026-02-26  1:34     ` Ian Rogers
2026-03-05 22:19       ` [PATCH v2 0/8] perf libunwind multiple remote support Ian Rogers
2026-03-05 22:19         ` [PATCH v2 1/8] perf unwind: Refactor get_entries to allow dynamic libdw/libunwind selection Ian Rogers
2026-03-05 22:19         ` [PATCH v2 2/8] perf build loongarch: Remove reference to missing file Ian Rogers
2026-03-05 22:19         ` [PATCH v2 3/8] tools build: Deduplicate test-libunwind for different architectures Ian Rogers
2026-03-05 22:19         ` [PATCH v2 4/8] perf build: Be more programmatic when setting up libunwind variables Ian Rogers
2026-03-05 22:19         ` [PATCH v2 5/8] perf unwind-libunwind: Make libunwind register reading cross platform Ian Rogers
2026-03-05 22:19         ` [PATCH v2 6/8] perf unwind-libunwind: Move flush/finish access out of local Ian Rogers
2026-03-05 22:19         ` [PATCH v2 7/8] perf unwind-libunwind: Remove libunwind-local Ian Rogers
2026-03-05 22:19         ` [PATCH v2 8/8] perf unwind-libunwind: Add RISC-V libunwind support Ian Rogers
2026-03-19 21:39         ` [PATCH v2 0/8] perf libunwind multiple remote support Namhyung Kim
2026-03-21  3:06           ` Ian Rogers
2026-03-21  8:20             ` Guilherme Amadio
2026-03-21 23:42           ` [PATCH v1 0/2] perf build: Remove libunwind support Ian Rogers
2026-03-21 23:42             ` [PATCH v1 1/2] " Ian Rogers
2026-03-21 23:42             ` [PATCH v1 2/2] tools build: Remove libunwind feature tests Ian Rogers
2026-03-26 22:51             ` [PATCH v1 0/2] perf build: Remove libunwind support Namhyung Kim
2026-03-26 23:14               ` Ian Rogers
     [not found]               ` <acbjjwc-WCk1CwtF@x1>
2026-03-27 20:37                 ` Ian Rogers
2026-03-27 20:41                   ` Ian Rogers
2026-03-27 21:08                   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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