[PATCH v1 00/11] Remove global perf_env

Ian Rogers irogers at google.com
Mon May 26 23:41:42 PDT 2025


The global perf_env is used to hold host information, but it is also
used as a fallback in a number of cases where the information may be
bogus. Restructure the code so that the perf_env of the session is
accessed. When necessary a locally scoped host perf_env is created and
used.

Cleaning up the inconsistency was requested by Kan Liang in:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/c56c9e23-cf6e-4040-aee8-da13d5157dcf@linux.intel.com/

Ian Rogers (11):
  perf session: Add accessor for session->header.env
  perf session: Add an env pointer for the current perf_env
  perf evlist: Change env variable to session
  perf header: Clean up use of perf_env
  perf test: Avoid use perf_env
  perf top: Make perf_env locally scoped
  perf session: Add host_env argument to perf_session__new
  perf bench synthesize: Avoid use of global perf_env
  perf machine: Explicitly pass in host perf_env
  perf auxtrace: Pass perf_env from session through to mmap read
  perf env: Remove global perf_env

 tools/perf/bench/synthesize.c         |  30 +++--
 tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c         |   4 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c    |   2 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-buildid-list.c     |   5 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c              |  16 ++-
 tools/perf/builtin-inject.c           |   5 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-kallsyms.c         |  21 ++-
 tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c             |   2 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c              |   4 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-kwork.c            |   2 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-lock.c             |   4 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-mem.c              |   2 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-record.c           |  30 +++--
 tools/perf/builtin-report.c           |  14 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-sched.c            |   8 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-script.c           |  16 ++-
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c             |  23 ++--
 tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c        |   2 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-top.c              |  40 ++++--
 tools/perf/builtin-trace.c            |  26 ++--
 tools/perf/perf.c                     |   3 -
 tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c       |   6 +-
 tools/perf/tests/dlfilter-test.c      |  51 ++++----
 tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c       |  10 +-
 tools/perf/tests/mmap-thread-lookup.c |   6 +-
 tools/perf/tests/symbols.c            |   8 +-
 tools/perf/tests/topology.c           |  39 +++---
 tools/perf/ui/browser.h               |   4 +-
 tools/perf/ui/browsers/header.c       |   4 +-
 tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c        |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/amd-sample-raw.c      |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c             |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c            |  13 +-
 tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h            |   6 +-
 tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c           |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/branch.c              |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c     |  16 +--
 tools/perf/util/data-convert-json.c   |  36 +++---
 tools/perf/util/env.c                 |   3 +-
 tools/perf/util/env.h                 |   2 -
 tools/perf/util/evlist.h              |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c               |  12 +-
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h               |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/header.c              | 180 +++++++++++++++-----------
 tools/perf/util/machine.c             |   8 +-
 tools/perf/util/machine.h             |   4 +-
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.c         |   5 +-
 tools/perf/util/s390-cpumsf.c         |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/sample-raw.c          |   7 +-
 tools/perf/util/sample-raw.h          |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/session.c             |  17 ++-
 tools/perf/util/session.h             |   9 +-
 tools/perf/util/tool.c                |   2 +-
 53 files changed, 424 insertions(+), 300 deletions(-)

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