- Fixes and improvements for ARM's CoreSight support, simplify ARM SPE
event config in 'perf mem', update docs for 'perf c2c' including the
ARM events it can be used with
- Build support for generating metrics from arch specific python
script, add extra AMD, Intel, ARM64 metrics using it
- Add AMD Zen 6 events and metrics
- Add JSON file with OpenHW Risc-V CVA6 hardware counters
- Add 'perf kvm' stats live testing
- Add more 'perf stat' tests to 'perf test'
- Fix segfault in `perf lock contention -b/--use-bpf`
- Fix various 'perf test' cases for s390
- Build system cleanups, bump minimum shellcheck version to 0.7.2
- Support building the capstone based annotation routines as a plugin
- Allow passing extra Clang flags via EXTRA_BPF_FLAGS
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.0-1-2026-02-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (255 commits)
perf test script: Add python script testing support
perf test script: Add perl script testing support
perf script: Allow the generated script to be a path
perf test: perf data --to-ctf testing
perf test: Test pipe mode with data conversion --to-json
perf json: Pipe mode --to-ctf support
perf json: Pipe mode --to-json support
perf check: Add libbabeltrace to the listed features
perf build: Allow passing extra Clang flags via EXTRA_BPF_FLAGS
perf test data_type_profiling.sh: Skip just the Rust tests if code_with_type workload is missing
tools build: Fix feature test for rust compiler
perf libunwind: Fix calls to thread__e_machine()
perf stat: Add no-affinity flag
perf evlist: Reduce affinity use and move into iterator, fix no affinity
perf evlist: Missing TPEBS close in evlist__close()
perf evlist: Special map propagation for tool events that read on 1 CPU
perf stat-shadow: In prepare_metric fix guard on reading NULL perf_stat_evsel
Revert "perf tool_pmu: More accurately set the cpus for tool events"
tools build: Emit dependencies file for test-rust.bin
tools build: Make test-rust.bin be removed by the 'clean' target
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