[PATCH v3 0/6] perf: Add support for memory region/range reporting
Thomas Falcon <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 15:45:34 -0500
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Add support for two memory-related reporting features in the perf tool: 1. Memory region reporting in perf-c2c and perf-script subcommands. 2. Memory range data in perf.data file header and perf-c2c subcommand. Memory region reporting was introduced as part of support for the Off-module Response facility (OMR) [1], which provides a new data source encoding supporting "up to 8 fine-grained memory regions in addition to the cache region, offering more detailed insights into memory access regions." Memory Range support was introduced with the addition of the ACPI Memory Range and Region Mapping (MRRM) [2] table. It provides a base address plus a length value for each memory range, as well as NUMA node and local and remote "region ID's" so that "platform firmware can indicate the type of memory for each range."[3] Include a change allowing PERF_MEM_LVLNUM_L0 to be printed in perf-mem output as well. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ [3]: MRRM definition allow for future expansion for the OS to assign these region IDs. v3: -- included missing ff-size check in process_memory_ranges -- make memory region reporting in perf c2c-and perf-script conditional on feature bit, requiring some patch reordering (Namhyung Kim) -- used open/openat to read memory range sysfs files in memory_range__read() (Namhyung Kim) -- Removed path name and file name buffers in memory_range__read(), instead pass path name from as a parameter from memory_range__parse() (Namhyung Kim) -- use calloc instead of zalloc in memory_range__parse() and process_memory_ranges() (Namhyung Kim) -- Removed redundant check for existance of memory range directory in memory_range__read() (Namhyung Kim) -- Included output examples of memory ranges in perf header and perf-c2c in commit message (Namhyung Kim) v2: -- Added missing newline in WARN_ONCE message in c2c_he__set_mem_region() -- increased buffers passed to perf_script__meminfo_scnprintf() from 150 to 200 bytes to avoid silent truncation -- Added check for NULL return of sysfs__mountpoint() when parsing memory ranges in sysfs -- increased MAX_MEMORY_RANGES sanity check from 64 to 256 based on ACPI MRRM table implementation in Linux kernel -- added comment for MAX_MEMORY_RANGES to clarify that it is a sanity check for malformed perf.data files -- removed a line of code was removed from util/env.h but was added back in v1 due to bad rebase Dapeng Mi (3): perf mem: Add support for printing PERF_MEM_LVLNUM_L0 perf tools: Show memory region in perf-c2c subcommand perf tools: Show memory region in perf-script subcommand Thomas Falcon (3): perf mem: Fix size tracking for mem_lvl's in perf_script__meminfo_scnprintf() perf header: Support memory ranges perf c2c: print memory region data with stdio output tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 2 +- .../Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt | 13 ++ tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c | 170 ++++++++++++--- tools/perf/builtin-inject.c | 1 + tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 11 +- tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.l | 1 + tools/perf/util/env.c | 1 + tools/perf/util/env.h | 10 + tools/perf/util/header.c | 203 ++++++++++++++++++ tools/perf/util/header.h | 1 + tools/perf/util/mem-events.c | 84 +++++++- tools/perf/util/mem-events.h | 2 + .../scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c | 4 +- 13 files changed, 460 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) -- 2.55.0