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<h1>Recommended update for perf</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-RU-2025:4417-1</td>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2025-12-16T16:23:01Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>important</td>
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<th>References:</th>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234698">bsc#1234698</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1247509">bsc#1247509</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249604">bsc#1249604</a>
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<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-12309">jsc#PED-12309</a>
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<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-13611">jsc#PED-13611</a>
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<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-6012">jsc#PED-6012</a>
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<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-6121">jsc#PED-6121</a>
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<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-9879">jsc#PED-9879</a>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
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<li class="list-group-item">Development Tools Module 15-SP7</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7</li>
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<p>An update that contains five features and has three fixes can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for perf fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>perf list: Add IBM z17 event descriptions (jsc#PED-13611).</li>
<li>perf script: add --addr2line option (bsc#1247509).</li>
<li>Limit patch filenames to 100 characters (bsc#1249604).</li>
<li>perf annotate: <ul>
<li>Add some of the arithmetic instructions to support instruction tracking in power.(jsc#PED-9879)</li>
<li>Add support to capture and parse raw instruction in powerpc using dso__data_read. (jsc#PED-9879)</li>
<li>Add "update_insn_state" callback function to handle arch specific instruction tracking jsc#PED-9879)</li>
<li>Move some source code related fields from struct annotation to struct annotated</li>
</ul>
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<li>perf beauty: Fix AT_EACCESS undeclared build error for system with kernel versions lower than v</li>
<li>perf bpf: Move BPF disassembly routines to separate file to avoid clash with capstone bpf heade</li>
<li>perf dwarf-aux: Move #else block of #ifdef</li>
<li>perf sched: Rename 'switches' column header to 'count' and add usage description options for latency</li>
<li>perf stat: Fork and launch 'perf record' when 'perf stat' needs to to get retire latency value for a metric</li>
<li>perf test: make metric validation test return early when there is no metric supported on the test system</li>
<li>perf trace augmented_raw_syscalls: Add extra array index bounds checking to satisfy some BPF verifiers</li>
<li>libperf cpumap: Rename perf_cpu_map__default_new() to perf_cpu_map__new_online_cpus()
and prefer sysfs (bsc#1234698, jsc#PED-12309)</li>
<li>perf bpf augmented_raw_syscalls: Add an assert to make sure size of
augmented_arg value is a pow (jsc#PED-6012, jsc#PED-6121)</li>
<li>perf build: Don't use -ftree-loop-distribute-patterns (jsc#PED-6012, jsc#PED-6121)</li>
<li>perf build: Remove -Wno-unused-but-set-variable from the flex flags
when-building-with-clang-13 (jsc#PED-6012, jsc#PED-6121))</li>
<li>perf probe: Free string returned by synthesize_perf_probe_point() on failure in
synthesize_perf_probe_command (jsc#PED-6012, jsc#PED-6121)</li>
<li>perf scripts python gecko: Launch the profiler UI on the default
browser with the appropriate URL (jsc#PED-6012, jsc#PED-6121))</li>
<li>perf symbols: Fix DSO kernel load and symbol process to correctly map DSO
to its long name type and adjust symbols (jsc#PED-6012, jsc#PED-6121)</li>
<li>perf tests arm_callgraph_fp: Address shellcheck warnings about
signal names and adding double q (jsc#PED-6012, jsc#PED-6121)</li>
<li>perf tests coresight thread_loop_check_tid_2:
Fix shellcheck warnings about word splitting quoting (jsc#PED-6012, jsc#PED-6121)</li>
<li>perf tests record_offcpu: Fix shellcheck warnings about
word splitting quoting (jsc#PED-6012, jsc#PED-6121)</li>
<li>perf tests stat+std_output: Fix shellcheck warnings about word splitting quoting
and local variables (jsc#PED-6012, jsc#PED-6121)</li>
<li>perf trace: Use heuristic when deciding if a syscall tracepoint const char field
is really a-string (jsc#PED-6012, jsc#PED-6121)</li>
<li>tools headers UAPI: Sync files changed by new fchmodat2 and
map_shadow_stack-syscalls with the kernel sources (jsc#PED-6012, jsc#PED-6121)</li>
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<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
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Development Tools Module 15-SP7
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<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP7-2025-4417=1</code>
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<h2>Package List:</h2>
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Development Tools Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>perf-debuginfo-6.4.0.git62258.fda20aa634-150700.3.5.1</li>
<li>perf-devel-6.4.0.git62258.fda20aa634-150700.3.5.1</li>
<li>perf-debugsource-6.4.0.git62258.fda20aa634-150700.3.5.1</li>
<li>perf-6.4.0.git62258.fda20aa634-150700.3.5.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234698">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234698</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1247509">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1247509</a>
</li>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249604">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249604</a>
</li>
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<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-12309">https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-12309</a>
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<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-13611">https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-13611</a>
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<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-6012">https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-6012</a>
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<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-6121">https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-6121</a>
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<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-9879">https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-9879</a>
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