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perf always allocates contiguous AUX pages based on aux_watermark. However, this contiguous allocation doesn't benefit all PMUs. For instance, ARM SPE and TRBE operate with virtual pages, and Coresight ETR allocates a separate buffer. For these PMUs, allocating contiguous AUX pages unnecessarily exacerbates memory fragmentation. This fragmentation can prevent their use on long-running devices. This patch modifies the perf driver to be memory-friendly by default, by allocating non-contiguous AUX pages. For PMUs requiring contiguous pages (Intel BTS and some Intel PT), the existing PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG capability can be used. For PMUs that don't require but can benefit from contiguous pages (some Intel PT), a new capability, PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_PREFER_LARGE, is added to maintain their existing behavior. Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508232642.148767-1-yabinc@google.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.