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New AMD Zen 5 Perf Events Going Into Linux 6.13


Sent out last night for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window were all of the perf tool changes for the wonderful 'perf' subsystem for performance profiling and the like

In addition to adding the HWMON PMU to "perf stat", leader sampling for inherited task events, and various other tooling improvements, there are also vendor event updates. The AMD Zen 5 additions with the perf updates for Linux 6.13 include adding new data fabric events, data fabric metrics, and updated data cache fill events. These AMD Zen 5 perf event additions will benefit the new AMD EPYC 9005"Turin" servers and whatever additional EPYC Zen 5 processors follow.

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