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Linus Torvalds
9e906a9dea Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools
Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
 "Perf event/metric description:

  Unify all event and metric descriptions in JSON format. Now event
  parsing and handling is greatly simplified by that.

  From users point of view, perf list will provide richer information
  about hardware events like the following.

    $ perf list hw

    List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M):

    legacy hardware:
      branch-instructions
           [Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branches]. Unit: cpu]
      branch-misses
           [Mispredicted branch instructions. Unit: cpu]
      branches
           [Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branch-instructions]. Unit: cpu]
      bus-cycles
           [Bus cycles,which can be different from total cycles. Unit: cpu]
      cache-misses
           [Cache misses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache misses; this is intended to be used in conjunction with the
            PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES event to calculate cache miss rates. Unit: cpu]
      cache-references
           [Cache accesses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache accesses but this may vary depending on your CPU. This may include
            prefetches and coherency messages; again this depends on the design of your CPU. Unit: cpu]
      cpu-cycles
           [Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cycles]. Unit: cpu]
      cycles
           [Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cpu-cycles]. Unit: cpu]
      instructions
           [Retired instructions. Be careful,these can be affected by various issues,most notably hardware interrupt counts. Unit: cpu]
      ref-cycles
           [Total cycles; not affected by CPU frequency scaling. Unit: cpu]

  But most notable changes would be in the perf stat. On the right side,
  the default metrics are better named and aligned. :)

    $ perf stat -- perf test -w noploop

     Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop':

                    11      context-switches                 #     10.8 cs/sec  cs_per_second
                     0      cpu-migrations                   #      0.0 migrations/sec  migrations_per_second
                 3,612      page-faults                      #   3532.5 faults/sec  page_faults_per_second
              1,022.51 msec task-clock                       #      1.0 CPUs  CPUs_utilized
               110,466      branch-misses                    #      0.0 %  branch_miss_rate         (88.66%)
         6,934,452,104      branches                         #   6781.8 M/sec  branch_frequency     (88.66%)
         4,657,032,590      cpu-cycles                       #      4.6 GHz  cycles_frequency       (88.65%)
        27,755,874,218      instructions                     #      6.0 instructions  insn_per_cycle  (89.03%)
                            TopdownL1                        #      0.3 %  tma_backend_bound
                                                             #      9.3 %  tma_bad_speculation      (89.05%)
                                                             #      9.7 %  tma_frontend_bound       (77.86%)
                                                             #     80.7 %  tma_retiring             (88.81%)

           1.025318171 seconds time elapsed

           1.013248000 seconds user
           0.012014000 seconds sys

  Deferred unwinding support:

  With the kernel support (commit c69993ecdd: "perf: Support deferred
  user unwind"), perf can use deferred callchains for userspace stack
  trace with frame pointers like below:

    $ perf record --call-graph fp,defer ...

  This will be transparent to users when it comes to other commands like
  perf report and perf script. They will merge the deferred callchains
  to the previous samples as if they were collected together.

  ARM SPE updates

   - Extensive enhancements to support various kinds of memory
     operations including GCS, MTE allocation tags, memcpy/memset,
     register access, and SIMD operations.

   - Add inverted data source filter (inv_data_src_filter) support to
     exclude certain data sources.

   - Improve documentation.

  Vendor event updates:

   - Intel: Updated event files for Sierra Forest, Panther Lake, Meteor
     Lake, Lunar Lake, Granite Rapids, and others.

   - Arm64: Added metrics for i.MX94 DDR PMU and Cortex-A720AE
     definitions.

   - RISC-V: Added JSON support for T-HEAD C920V2.

  Misc:

   - Improve pointer tracking in data type profiling. It'd give better
     output when the variable is using container_of() to convert type.

   - Annotation support for perf c2c report in TUI. Press 'a' key to
     enter annotation view from cacheline browser window. This will show
     which instruction is causing the cacheline contention.

   - Lots of fixes and test coverage improvements!"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (214 commits)
  libperf: Use 'extern' in LIBPERF_API visibility macro
  perf stat: Improve handling of termination by signal
  perf tests stat: Add test for error for an offline CPU
  perf stat: When no events, don't report an error if there is none
  perf tests stat: Add "--null" coverage
  perf cpumap: Add "any" CPU handling to cpu_map__snprint_mask
  libperf cpumap: Fix perf_cpu_map__max for an empty/NULL map
  perf stat: Allow no events to open if this is a "--null" run
  perf test kvm: Add some basic perf kvm test coverage
  perf tests evlist: Add basic evlist test
  perf tests script dlfilter: Add a dlfilter test
  perf tests kallsyms: Add basic kallsyms test
  perf tests timechart: Add a perf timechart test
  perf tests top: Add basic perf top coverage test
  perf tests buildid: Add purge and remove testing
  perf tests c2c: Add a basic c2c
  perf c2c: Clean up some defensive gets and make asan clean
  perf jitdump: Fix missed dso__put
  perf mem-events: Don't leak online CPU map
  perf hist: In init, ensure mem_info is put on error paths
  ...
2025-12-07 07:07:02 -08:00
Ian Rogers
5123509628 perf tests stat: Add test for error for an offline CPU
Add a test that if an offline CPU is requested perf stat will fail.

  $ perf test -vv "perf stat tests"
  101: perf stat tests:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 46965
  Basic stat command test
  Basic stat command test [Success]
  Null stat command test
  Null stat command test [Success]
  Offline CPU stat command test (cpu 8)
  Offline CPU stat command test [Success]
  stat record and report test
  stat record and report test [Success]
  stat record and script test
  stat record and script test [Success]
  stat repeat weak groups test
  stat repeat weak groups test [Success]
  Topdown event group test
  Topdown event group test [Success]
  Topdown weak groups test
  Topdown weak groups test [Skipped event parsing failed]
  cputype test
  cputype test [Success]
  hybrid test
  hybrid test [Success]
  ---- end(0) ----
  101: perf stat tests                                                 : Ok

Reported-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/94313b82-888b-4f42-9fb0-4585f9e90080@linux.ibm.com/
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-04 15:42:29 -08:00
Ian Rogers
279b5a85eb perf tests stat: Add "--null" coverage
Ensure "--null" does a minimal run.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/aSwt7yzFjVJCEmVp@gmail.com/
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-04 00:36:14 -08:00
Ian Rogers
b58261584d perf test kvm: Add some basic perf kvm test coverage
Setup qemu with KVM then run kvm stat and some host
recording/reporting/build-id tests.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:07:47 -08:00
Ian Rogers
db452961de perf tests evlist: Add basic evlist test
Add test that evlist reports expected events from perf record.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:07:47 -08:00
Ian Rogers
199d5e872a perf tests script dlfilter: Add a dlfilter test
Compile a simple dlfilter and make sure it remove samples from
everything other than a test_loop.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:07:47 -08:00
Ian Rogers
526ed2f8a7 perf tests kallsyms: Add basic kallsyms test
Add test that kallsyms finds a well known symbol and fails for
another.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:07:47 -08:00
Ian Rogers
279385cf63 perf tests timechart: Add a perf timechart test
Basic coverage for `perf timechart` doing a record and then a basic
sanity test of the generated SVG file.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:07:47 -08:00
Ian Rogers
75e961730b perf tests top: Add basic perf top coverage test
The test starts a backgroup thloop workload and monitors it using
cpu-clock ensuring test_loop appears in the output.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:07:47 -08:00
Ian Rogers
0eb307d954 perf tests buildid: Add purge and remove testing
Add testing for the purge and remove commands. Use the noploop
workload rather than just a return to avoid missing samples in the
workload in perf record. Tidy up the cleanup code to cleanup when
signals happen.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:07:46 -08:00
Ian Rogers
ac881007c4 perf tests c2c: Add a basic c2c
Add basic c2c record and report testing to gain some coverage.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 11:07:46 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
34e271ae55 perf test: Add kallsyms split test
Create a fake root directory for /proc/{version,modules,kallsyms} in
/tmp for testing.  The kallsyms has a bad symbol in the module and it
causes the main map splitted.  The test ensures it only has two maps -
kernel and the module and it finds the initial map after the module
without creating the split maps like [kernel].0 and so on.

  $ perf test -vv "split kallsyms"
   69: split kallsyms:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 1016196
  try to create fake root directory
  create kernel maps from the fake root directory
  maps__set_modules_path_dir: cannot open /tmp/perf-test.Zrv6Sy/lib/modules/X.Y.Z dir
  Problems setting modules path maps, continuing anyway...
  Failed to open /tmp/perf-test.Zrv6Sy/proc/kcore. Note /proc/kcore requires CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability to access.
  Using /tmp/perf-test.Zrv6Sy/proc/kallsyms for symbols
  kernel map loaded - check symbol and map
  ---- end(0) ----
   69: split kallsyms                                                  : Ok

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 21:59:15 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
c9cd0c7e52 perf test: Add python JIT dump test
Add a test case for the python interpreter like below so that we can
make sure it won't break again.  To validate the effect of build-ID
generation, it adds and removes the JIT'ed DSOs to/from the build-ID
cache for the test.

  $ perf test -vv jitdump
   84: python profiling with jitdump:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 214316
  Run python with -Xperf_jit
  [ perf record: Woken up 5 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.180 MB /tmp/__perf_test.perf.data.XbqZNm (140 samples) ]
  Generate JIT-ed DSOs using perf inject
  Add JIT-ed DSOs to the build-ID cache
  Check the symbol containing the script name
  Found 108 matching lines
  Remove JIT-ed DSOs from the build-ID cache
  ---- end(0) ----
   84: python profiling with jitdump                                   : Ok

Cc: Pablo Galindo <pablogsal@gmail.com>
Link: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/perf_profiling.html#how-to-work-without-frame-pointers
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:06:57 -08:00
Ian Rogers
44f6b44027 perf test: Fix hybrid testing of event fallback test
The mem-loads-aux event exists on hybrid systems but the "cpu" PMU
does not. This causes an event parsing error which erroneously makes
the test look like it is failing. Avoid naming the PMU to avoid
this. Rather than cleaning up perf.data in the directory the test is
run, explicitly send the 'perf record' output to /dev/null and avoid
any cleanup scripts.

Fixes: fc9c17b223 ("perf test: Add a perf event fallback test")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-02 16:02:47 -08:00
James Clark
834ebb5678 perf tools: Don't read build-ids from non-regular files
Simplify the build ID reading code by removing the non-blocking option.
Having to pass the correct option to this function was fragile and a
mistake would result in a hang, see the linked fix. Furthermore,
compressed files are always opened blocking anyway, ignoring the
non-blocking option.

We also don't expect to read build IDs from non-regular files. The only
hits to this function that are non-regular are devices that won't be elf
files with build IDs, for example "/dev/dri/renderD129".

Now instead of opening these as non-blocking and failing to read, we
skip them. Even if something like a pipe or character device did have a
build ID, I don't think it would have worked because you need to call
read() in a loop, check for -EAGAIN and handle timeouts to make
non-blocking reads work.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20251022-james-perf-fix-dso-block-v1-1-c4faab150546@linaro.org/
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-26 10:13:38 -08:00
James Clark
14a84c708e perf tools: Add support for perf_event_attr::config4
perf_event_attr has gained a new field, config4, so add support for it
extending the existing configN support.

Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-24 12:20:06 -08:00
Ian Rogers
41b67ab3d2 perf test all metrics: Fully ignore Default metric failures
Determine if a metric is default from `perf list --raw-dump $m` eg:
```
$ perf list --raw-dump l1_prefetch_miss_rate
Default4 l1_prefetch_miss_rate
```
If a metric has "not supported" or "no supported events" then ignore
these failures for default metrics. Tidy up the skip/fail messages in
the output to make them easier to spot/read.

```
$ perf list -vv "all metrics"
...
Testing llc_miss_rate
[Ignored llc_miss_rate] failed but as a Default metric this can be expected
Error: No supported events found. The LLC-loads event is not supported.
...
```

Reported-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20251119104751.51960-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com/
Reported-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reported-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aRi9xnwdLh3Dir9f@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-20 11:08:46 -08:00
Ian Rogers
36434959b6 perf test maps: Additional maps__fixup_overlap_and_insert tests
Add additional test to the maps covering
maps__fixup_overlap_and_insert. Change the test suite to be for more
than just 1 test.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-19 16:20:15 -08:00
Ian Rogers
d702c0f4af perf stat: Reduce scope of walltime_nsecs_stats
walltime_nsecs_stats is no longer used for counter values, move into
that stat_config where it controls certain things like noise
measurement.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-17 18:43:09 -08:00
Ian Rogers
efee18981a perf test: Don't fail if user rdpmc returns 0 when disabled
In certain hypervisor set ups the value 0 may be returned but this is
only erroneous if the user rdpmc isn't disabled.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-16 23:24:00 -08:00
Ian Rogers
c335b7a960 perf test: Be tolerant of missing json metric none value
print_metric_only_json and print_metric_end in stat-display.c may
create a metric value of "none" which fails validation as isfloat. Add
a helper to properly validate metric numeric values.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-16 23:24:00 -08:00
Ian Rogers
ca016b6527 perf auxtrace: Remove errno.h from auxtrace.h and fix transitive dependencies
errno.h isn't used in auxtrace.h so remove it and fix build failures
caused by transitive dependencies through auxtrace.h on errno.h.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-13 23:03:11 -08:00
Ian Rogers
754187ad73 perf build: Remove NO_AUXTRACE build option
The NO_AUXTRACE build option was used when the __get_cpuid feature
test failed or if it was provided on the command line. The option no
longer avoids a dependency on a library and so having the option is
just adding complexity to the code base. Remove the option
CONFIG_AUXTRACE from Build files and HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT by assuming
it is always defined.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-13 23:03:11 -08:00
Ravi Bangoria
3c723f4497 perf test: Fix lock contention test
Couple of independent fixes:

1. Wire in SIGSEGV handler that terminates the test with a failure code.

2. Use "--lock-cgroup" instead of "-g"; "-g" was proposed but never
   merged. See commit 4d1792d0a2 ("perf lock contention: Add
   --lock-cgroup option")

3. Call cleanup() on every normal exit so trap_cleanup() doesn't mistake
   it for an unexpected signal and emit a false-negative "Unexpected
   signal in main" message.

Before patch:

  # ./perf test -vv "lock contention"
   85: kernel lock contention analysis test:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 610711
  Testing perf lock record and perf lock contention
  Testing perf lock contention --use-bpf
  Testing perf lock record and perf lock contention at the same time
  Testing perf lock contention --threads
  Testing perf lock contention --lock-addr
  Testing perf lock contention --lock-cgroup
  Unexpected signal in test_aggr_cgroup
  ---- end(0) ----
   85: kernel lock contention analysis test                            : Ok

After patch:

  # ./perf test -vv "lock contention"
   85: kernel lock contention analysis test:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 602637
  Testing perf lock record and perf lock contention
  Testing perf lock contention --use-bpf
  Testing perf lock record and perf lock contention at the same time
  Testing perf lock contention --threads
  Testing perf lock contention --lock-addr
  Testing perf lock contention --lock-cgroup
  Testing perf lock contention --type-filter (w/ spinlock)
  Testing perf lock contention --lock-filter (w/ tasklist_lock)
  Testing perf lock contention --callstack-filter (w/ unix_stream)
  [Skip] Could not find 'unix_stream'
  Testing perf lock contention --callstack-filter with task aggregation
  [Skip] Could not find 'unix_stream'
  Testing perf lock contention --cgroup-filter
  Testing perf lock contention CSV output
  ---- end(0) ----
   85: kernel lock contention analysis test                            : Ok

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ananth Narayan <ananth.narayan@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@amd.com>
Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2025-11-13 17:29:00 -03:00
Zide Chen
fc9c17b223 perf test: Add a perf event fallback test
This adds test cases to verify the precise ip fallback logic:

- If the system supports precise ip, for an event given with the maximum
  precision level, it should be able to decrease precise_ip to find a
  supported level.
- The same fallback behavior should also work in more complex scenarios,
  such as event groups or when PEBS is involved

Additional fallback tests, such as those covering missing feature cases,
can be added in the future.

Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers!@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-12 10:41:54 -08:00
Ian Rogers
02432d920e perf test stat csv: Update test expectations and events
Explicitly use a metric rather than implicitly expecting '-e
instructions,cycles' to produce a metric. Use a metric with software
events to make it more compatible.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-11 16:48:36 -08:00
Ian Rogers
a48cd551d7 perf test stat: Update test expectations and events
test_stat_record_report and test_stat_record_script used default
output which triggers a bug when sending metrics. As this isn't
relevant to the test switch to using named software events.

Update the match in test_hybrid as the cycles event is now cpu-cycles
to workaround potential ARM issues.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-11 16:48:35 -08:00
Ian Rogers
6b76f0678b perf test stat: Update shadow test to use metrics
Previously '-e cycles,instructions' would implicitly create an IPC
metric. This now has to be explicit with '-M insn_per_cycle'.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-11 16:48:35 -08:00
Ian Rogers
91c1949d76 perf test metrics: Update all metrics for possibly failing default metrics
Default metrics may use unsupported events and be ignored. These
metrics shouldn't cause metric testing to fail.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-11 16:48:35 -08:00
Ian Rogers
083ae6c1fb perf test stat: Update std_output testing metric expectations
Make the expectations match json metrics rather than the previous hard
coded ones.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-11 16:48:35 -08:00
Ian Rogers
b1cb2b76bd perf test stat: Ignore failures in Default[234] metricgroups
The Default[234] metric groups may contain unsupported legacy
events. Allow those metric groups to fail.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-11 16:48:35 -08:00
Ian Rogers
2c240484cf perf test stat+json: Improve metric-only testing
When testing metric-only, pass a metric to perf rather than expecting
a hard coded metric value to be generated.

Remove keys that were really metric-only units and instead don't
expect metric only to have a matching json key as it encodes metrics
as {"metric_name", "metric_value"}.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-11 16:48:35 -08:00
Ian Rogers
081006b7c8 perf test: Add test that command line period overrides sysfs/json values
The behavior of weak terms is subtle, add a test that they aren't
accidentally broken. The test finds an event with a weak 'period' and
then overrides it. In no such event is present then the test skips.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-09 23:07:57 -08:00
Ian Rogers
3528647874 perf test workload: Add thread count argument to thloop
Allow the number of threads for the thloop workload to be increased
beyond the normal 2. Add error checking to the parsed time and thread
count values.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-10-28 16:59:58 -07:00
Ian Rogers
b4a63b0e73 perf test parse-events: Add evsel test helper
Add TEST_ASSERT_EVSEL to dump the failing evsel in the event of a
failure.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-10-15 23:59:12 +09:00
Ian Rogers
c4b34fe002 perf test parse-events: Add evlist test helper
Add TEST_ASSERT_EVLIST to dump the failing evlist in the event of a
failure.

Add the macro to a number of tests not currently checking the evlist
length.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-10-15 23:59:12 +09:00
Ian Rogers
8f9f6d7117 perf test: Clean up test_..config helpers
Just have a single test_hw_config helper that strips extended type
information in the case of hardware and hardware cache events.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-10-15 23:59:12 +09:00
Ian Rogers
4bebf7ff3e perf test: Switch cycles event to cpu-cycles
Without a PMU perf matches an event against any PMU with the
event. Unfortunately some PMU drivers advertise a "cycles" event which
is typically just a core event. As tests assume a core event, switch
to use "cpu-cycles" that avoids the overloaded "cycles" event on
troublesome PMUs and is so far not overloaded. Note, on x86 this
changes a legacy event into a sysfs one.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-10-15 23:59:12 +09:00
Ian Rogers
d47c65eea8 perf test parse-events: Remove cpu PMU requirement
In the event parse string, switch "cpu" to "default_core" and then
rewrite this to the first core PMU name prior to parsing. This enables
testing with a PMU on hybrid x86 and other systems that don't use
"cpu" for the core PMU name. The name "default_core" is already used
by jevents. Update test expectations to match.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-10-15 23:59:11 +09:00
Ian Rogers
2e6dc3b933 perf test parse-events: Without a PMU use cpu-cycles rather than cycles
Without a PMU perf matches an event against any PMU with the
event. Unfortunately some PMU drivers advertise a "cycles" event which
is typically just a core event. Switch to using "cpu-cycles" which is
an indentical legacy event but avoids the multiple PMU confusion
introduced by the PMU drivers. Note, on x86 cpu-cycles is also a sysfs
event but cycles isn't.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-10-15 23:59:11 +09:00
Ian Rogers
ecfcc6a825 perf test parse-events: Use evsel__match for legacy events
Switch from the test's assert_hw/test_config to the common
evsel__match code that appropriately handles events with both legacy
and sysfs/json encoding.

For tests asserting that a config value matches that placed in the
perf_event_attr just directly compare the config values.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-10-15 23:59:11 +09:00
Ian Rogers
5f68451a93 perf parse-events: Remove unused FILE input argument to scanner
Now the events file isn't directly parsed from a FILE but stored in a
string prior to parsing, remove the FILE argument to the associated
scanner functions as they only ever pass NULL.

Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-10-15 23:59:10 +09:00
Ian Rogers
84bae3af20 perf pmu: Don't eagerly parse event terms
When an event/alias is created for a PMU the terms are eagerly parsed
using parse_events_terms. For a command like perf stat or perf record,
the particular event/alias will be found, the terms parsed, the
terms cloned for use in the event parsing, and then the terms used to
configure the perf_event_attr. Events/aliases may be eagerly loaded,
such as from sysfs or in perf list, in which case the aliases terms
will be little or never used. To avoid redundant work, to avoid
cloning, and to reduce memory overhead, hold the terms for an event as
a string until they need handling as a term list. This may introduce
duplicate parsing if an event is repeated in a list, but this
situation is expected to be uncommon.

Measuring the number of instructions before and after with a sysfs
event and perf stat, there is a minor reduction in the number of
instructions executed by 0.3%.

Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-10-15 23:59:10 +09:00
James Clark
4b5dafe616 perf tests: use strdup() in "Object code reading"
Use strdup() instead of fixed PATH_MAX buffer for storing paths to not
waste memory.

Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-10-13 01:58:51 -07:00
James Clark
5205c3d002 perf tests: Don't retest sections in "Object code reading"
We already only test each kcore map once, but on slow systems
(particularly with network filesystems) even the non-kcore maps are
slow.

The test can test the same objdump output over and over which only wastes
time. Generalize the skipping mechanism to track all DSOs and addresses
so that each section is only tested once.

On a fully loaded ARM Juno (simulating a parallel 'perf test' run) with
a network filesystem, the original runtime is:

  real  1m51.126s
  user  0m19.445s
  sys   1m15.431s

And the new runtime is:

  real  0m48.873s
  user  0m8.031s
  sys   0m32.353s

Committer testing:

  # perf test "code read"
   22: Object code reading          : Ok
  #

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2025-10-06 16:59:11 -03:00
Leo Yan
9ec46fc938 perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for unroll loop thread
clang-18.1.3 on Ubuntu 24.04.2 reports warning:

  unroll_loop_thread.c:35:25: warning: value size does not match register size specified by the constraint and modifier [-Wasm-operand-widths]
     35 |                         : /* in */ [in] "r" (in)
        |                                              ^
  unroll_loop_thread.c:39:1: warning: non-void function does not return a value [-Wreturn-type]
     39 | }
        | ^

Use the modifier "w" for 32-bit register access and return NULL at the
end of thread function.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251006-perf_build_android_ndk-v3-7-4305590795b2@arm.com
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2025-10-06 16:49:25 -03:00
Leo Yan
244a1ac76a perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for thread loop
clang-18.1.3 on Ubuntu 24.04.2 reports warning:

  thread_loop.c:41:23: warning: value size does not match register size specified by the constraint and modifier [-Wasm-operand-widths]
     41 |                 : /* in */ [i] "r" (i), [len] "r" (len)
        |                                     ^
  thread_loop.c:37:8: note: use constraint modifier "w"
     37 |                 "add %[i], %[i], #1\n"
        |                      ^~~~
        |                      %w[i]
  thread_loop.c:41:23: warning: value size does not match register size specified by the constraint and modifier [-Wasm-operand-widths]
     41 |                 : /* in */ [i] "r" (i), [len] "r" (len)
        |                                     ^
  thread_loop.c:37:14: note: use constraint modifier "w"
     37 |                 "add %[i], %[i], #1\n"
        |                            ^~~~
        |                            %w[i]
  thread_loop.c:41:23: warning: value size does not match register size specified by the constraint and modifier [-Wasm-operand-widths]
     41 |                 : /* in */ [i] "r" (i), [len] "r" (len)
        |                                     ^
  thread_loop.c:38:8: note: use constraint modifier "w"
     38 |                 "cmp %[i], %[len]\n"
        |                      ^~~~
        |                      %w[i]
  thread_loop.c:41:38: warning: value size does not match register size specified by the constraint and modifier [-Wasm-operand-widths]
     41 |                 : /* in */ [i] "r" (i), [len] "r" (len)
        |                                                    ^
  thread_loop.c:38:14: note: use constraint modifier "w"
     38 |                 "cmp %[i], %[len]\n"
        |                            ^~~~~~
        |                            %w[len]

Use the modifier "w" for 32-bit register access.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251006-perf_build_android_ndk-v3-6-4305590795b2@arm.com
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2025-10-06 16:49:25 -03:00
Leo Yan
50b7e7082a perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for memcpy thread
clang-18.1.3 on Ubuntu 24.04.2 reports warning:

  memcpy_thread.c:30:1: warning: non-void function does not return a value in all control paths [-Wreturn-type]
     30 | }
        | ^

Dismiss the warning with returning NULL from the thread function.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251006-perf_build_android_ndk-v3-5-4305590795b2@arm.com
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2025-10-06 16:49:25 -03:00
Thomas Falcon
56be0fe5f6 perf record: Add auto counter reload parse and regression tests
Include event parsing and regression tests for auto counter reload
and ratio-to-prev event term.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2025-10-03 16:49:51 -03:00
Ian Rogers
a272195f1c perf test: Stat std output don't fail metric only
When running on a hypervisor the expected IPC metric may be missing as
the events may fail to be read. Don't expect metric output for this
test to avoid it failing.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2025-10-02 15:05:41 -03:00