perf pmu: Add tool-provided NVMe PMU [LWN.net]

From:		Ian Rogers <irogers-AT-google.com>
To:		Peter Zijlstra <peterz-AT-infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo-AT-redhat.com>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme-AT-kernel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung-AT-kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa-AT-kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers-AT-google.com>, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter-AT-intel.com>, James Clark <james.clark-AT-linaro.org>, Tomas Glozar <tglozar-AT-redhat.com>, Michael Jeanson <mjeanson-AT-efficios.com>, Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6-AT-gmail.com>, Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre-AT-oracle.com>, Yuzhuo Jing <yuzhuo-AT-google.com>, Leo Yan <leo.yan-AT-arm.com>, German Gomez <german.gomez-AT-arm.com>, Anubhav Shelat <ashelat-AT-redhat.com>, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users-AT-vger.kernel.org
Subject:		[PATCH v1 0/3] perf pmu: Add tool-provided NVMe PMU
Date:		Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:03:45 -0700
Message-ID:		<20260609070348.541964-1-irogers@google.com>
Cc:		linux-nvme-AT-lists.infradead.org
Archive-link:		Article

This patch series introduces a tool-provided PMU for NVMe devices to expose
various hardware logs as perf events.

Using libnvme, the new nvme_pmu extracts metrics from standard NVMe log pages
including:
- SMART / Health Information (e.g. data units read/written, power cycles,
  temperature)
- Endurance Group Information
- FDP (Flexible Data Placement) Statistics
- Error Information
- Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) Changed Zones

Key features:
- Dynamic probing of supported log pages on /dev/nvmeX. Unsupported events
  are marked as deprecated and hidden from `perf list` by default.
- Generic configuration encoding where the log type, size, and offset are
  encoded directly into the event configuration.
- Correct interval delta tracking using baseline offset snapshots. This mimics
  the behavior of the hwmon PMU, allowing gauges like Temperature to be
  reported instantaneously in `perf stat -I`, while standard counters
  correctly accumulate deltas.
- Robust handling of cross-architecture endianness when reading 128-bit and
  64-bit fields from the NVMe specification.

The series is broken down into:
1. Adding the libnvme feature detection via pkg-config in tools/build.
2. The core implementation of the NVMe tool PMU.
3. A unit test suite verifying the parsing and encoding of the NVMe PMU
   events using a mocked device.

Ian Rogers (3):
  perf build: Add libnvme feature detection
  perf pmu: Implement tool-provided NVMe PMU
  perf tests: Add NVMe PMU event parsing test

 tools/build/Makefile.feature       |   2 +
 tools/build/feature/Makefile       |   3 +
 tools/build/feature/test-libnvme.c |  11 +
 tools/perf/Makefile.config         |  12 +
 tools/perf/tests/Build             |   1 +
 tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c    |   1 +
 tools/perf/tests/nvme_pmu.c        | 176 ++++++++++
 tools/perf/tests/tests.h           |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/Build              |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c            |  11 +-
 tools/perf/util/nvme_pmu.c         | 535 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/util/nvme_pmu.h         | 143 ++++++++
 tools/perf/util/pmu.c              |  15 +
 tools/perf/util/pmu.h              |   8 +-
 tools/perf/util/pmus.c             |  31 +-
 tools/perf/util/pmus.h             |   1 +
 16 files changed, 945 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-libnvme.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/nvme_pmu.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/nvme_pmu.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/nvme_pmu.h

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