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Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
"uprobes updates:
- Fix a category of bugs with optimized uprobes that can clobber the
redzone area with call instruction storing return address on stack
where user code may keep temporary data without adjusting RSP.
Fix this by moving the optimized uprobes on top of 10-bytes NOP
instruction, so we can squeeze another instruction to escape the
redzone area before doing the call (Jiri Olsa, Andrii Nakryiko)
- Switch uretprobes_srcu to SRCU-fast-updown, to improve performance
(Puranjay Mohan)
Intel CPU PMU driver updates:
- Optimize ACR handling in match_prev_assignment() (Dapeng Mi)
- Fix various PMU driver bugs and data leaks (Dapeng Mi)
- Fix Intel PT stop/start with no update (Adrian Hunter)
Intel uncore PMU driver updates:
- Fix various uncore PMU setup robustness bugs (Zide Chen)
AMD uncore PMU driver updates:
- Add group validation (Sandipan Das)
.. and misc fixes and updates by Dapeng Mi, Randy Dunlap and Zide Chen"
* tag 'perf-core-2026-08-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits)
perf/x86: Optimize ACR handling in match_prev_assignment()
perf/x86/intel: Fix intel_cap handling on hybrid PMUs
perf/x86: Remove stale fixed counter helper and fix hybrid PMU access
perf/x86/intel: Unwind cpuc state if PEBS buffer setup fails
perf/x86: Guard intel_pmu_cpu_dead() against invalid hybrid PMU casts
perf/x86: Free hybrid state on PMU init failure
perf/x86: Unregister PMI handler on PMU init failure
perf/x86/intel/pt: Fix stop/start with no update
perf/x86/intel/pt: Use bitwise access for PERF_HES_STOPPED
perf/x86/intel/pt: Factor out pt_config_enable()
uprobes: Switch uretprobes_srcu to SRCU-fast-updown
srcu: Add lock guard for srcu_fast_updown flavor
perf/x86/intel/pt: Drop kernel-doc for deleted struct members
perf/x86/amd/uncore: Add group validation
selftests/bpf: Add tests for forked/cloned optimized uprobes
selftests/bpf: Add tests for uprobe nop10 red zone clobbering
selftests/bpf: Add reattach tests for uprobe syscall
selftests/bpf: Change uprobe/usdt trigger bench code to use nop10
selftests/bpf: Change uprobe syscall tests to use nop10
selftests/bpf: Emit nop,nop10 instructions combo for x86_64 arch
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