Public bug reported:

SRU Justification:

[Impact]

A significant regression (between 0.5x and 0.2x) in benchmark results
has been noticed on Stream when profiled with APerf. On further
investigation it has been identified that the regression is coming from
the Linux Perf subsystem which is used by APerf to collect PMU metrics
and Flamegraph profiling data.

The regression first occured between v6.1 and v6.2 of the upstream linux
kernel.

[Fix]

It has been identified this patchset:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
, which was merged in v6.10 to fix the performance regression.

These changes correspond to upstream commits:
f38628b06c36 
0259bf63f71e 


[Test Plan]

AWS tested

[Where problems could occur]

The changes are fairly narrow in scope, and changes how the PMU checks
frequencies and throttles.  As this is fixing a regression if a system
is relying on the behaviour present after the regression was introduced,
and before it is fixed, it may have strange side effects.

The other area that this may have problems is if the stable branches bring in 
changes to the PMU throttling code that does not have this fix corrected, 
strange behaviour may result, or merge conflicts may occur. 
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[Other Info]
SF #00407096

** Affects: linux-aws (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Philip Cox (philcox)
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: linux-aws (Ubuntu Noble)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Philip Cox (philcox)
         Status: In Progress

** Also affects: linux-aws (Ubuntu Noble)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: linux-aws (Ubuntu Noble)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Philip Cox (philcox)

** Changed in: linux-aws (Ubuntu Noble)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: linux-aws (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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  Backport Perf patchset to address Linux kernels performance regression

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