[PATCH v3 11/12] perf tools: Initial support for RISC-V trace decoder
From: Anup Patel <hidden>
Date: 2026-02-25 06:25:46
Also in:
linux-riscv, lkml
Subsystem:
performance events subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds
From: Mayuresh Chitale <redacted> Add bare bones support for RISC-V trace decoder so that the data received from the hardware by the RISC-V trace perf driver can be written to the perf record output file. Co-developed-by: Anup Patel <redacted> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <redacted> Signed-off-by: Mayuresh Chitale <redacted> --- tools/perf/util/Build | 1 + tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c | 3 + tools/perf/util/rvtrace-decoder.c | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/perf/util/rvtrace.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 96 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/rvtrace-decoder.c
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/Build b/tools/perf/util/Build
index bcccad7487a9..4cb5a6c61bf7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/util/Build@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ perf-util-y += cs-etm.o perf-util-y += cs-etm-decoder/ endif perf-util-y += cs-etm-base.o +perf-util-y += rvtrace-decoder.o perf-util-y += parse-branch-options.o perf-util-y += dump-insn.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
index 944a43d48739..c6bd6642ce05 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ #include "arm-spe.h" #include "hisi-ptt.h" #include "s390-cpumsf.h" +#include "rvtrace.h" #include "util/mmap.h" #include "powerpc-vpadtl.h"
@@ -1412,6 +1413,8 @@ int perf_event__process_auxtrace_info(const struct perf_tool *tool __maybe_unuse err = powerpc_vpadtl_process_auxtrace_info(event, session); break; case PERF_AUXTRACE_RISCV_TRACE: + err = rvtrace__process_auxtrace_info(event, session); + break; case PERF_AUXTRACE_UNKNOWN: default: return -EINVAL;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/rvtrace-decoder.c b/tools/perf/util/rvtrace-decoder.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..58db5ca62c1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/util/rvtrace-decoder.c@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/* + * RISC-V trace Decoder + */ + +#include <errno.h> +#include <inttypes.h> +#include "evlist.h" +#include <internal/lib.h> +#include "rvtrace.h" + +struct rvtrace_decoder { + struct auxtrace auxtrace; + u32 auxtrace_type; + struct perf_session *session; + struct machine *machine; + u32 pmu_type; +}; + +static int rvtrace_process_event(struct perf_session *session __maybe_unused, + union perf_event *event __maybe_unused, + struct perf_sample *sample __maybe_unused, + const struct perf_tool *tool __maybe_unused) +{ + return 0; +} + +static int rvtrace_process_auxtrace_event(struct perf_session *session __maybe_unused, + union perf_event *event __maybe_unused, + const struct perf_tool *tool __maybe_unused) +{ + return 0; +} + +static int rvtrace_flush(struct perf_session *session __maybe_unused, + const struct perf_tool *tool __maybe_unused) +{ + return 0; +} + +static void rvtrace_free_events(struct perf_session *session __maybe_unused) +{ +} + +static void rvtrace_free(struct perf_session *session) +{ + struct rvtrace_decoder *ptr = container_of(session->auxtrace, struct rvtrace_decoder, + auxtrace); + + session->auxtrace = NULL; + free(ptr); +} + +static bool rvtrace_evsel_is_auxtrace(struct perf_session *session, + struct evsel *evsel) +{ + struct rvtrace_decoder *ptr = container_of(session->auxtrace, + struct rvtrace_decoder, auxtrace); + + return evsel->core.attr.type == ptr->pmu_type; +} + +int rvtrace__process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event, + struct perf_session *session) +{ + struct perf_record_auxtrace_info *auxtrace_info = &event->auxtrace_info; + struct rvtrace_decoder *ptr; + + if (auxtrace_info->header.size < RVTRACE_AUXTRACE_PRIV_SIZE + + sizeof(struct perf_record_auxtrace_info)) + return -EINVAL; + + ptr = zalloc(sizeof(*ptr)); + if (!ptr) + return -ENOMEM; + + ptr->session = session; + ptr->machine = &session->machines.host; + ptr->auxtrace_type = auxtrace_info->type; + ptr->pmu_type = auxtrace_info->priv[0]; + + ptr->auxtrace.process_event = rvtrace_process_event; + ptr->auxtrace.process_auxtrace_event = rvtrace_process_auxtrace_event; + ptr->auxtrace.flush_events = rvtrace_flush; + ptr->auxtrace.free_events = rvtrace_free_events; + ptr->auxtrace.free = rvtrace_free; + ptr->auxtrace.evsel_is_auxtrace = rvtrace_evsel_is_auxtrace; + session->auxtrace = &ptr->auxtrace; + + return 0; +}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/rvtrace.h b/tools/perf/util/rvtrace.h
index 24b32947fb4c..8e3eb4d681a7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/rvtrace.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/rvtrace.h@@ -15,4 +15,5 @@ #define RVTRACE_AUXTRACE_PRIV_SIZE sizeof(u64) +int rvtrace__process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event, struct perf_session *session); #endif
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