When filtering branch stack samples on user events they sample in user
land but may have come from the kernel. Aarch64 avoids leaking the
kernel address for kaslr reasons but other platforms, for now,
don't. Be more permissive in allowing kernel addresses in the source
of user branch stacks.
When filtering branch stack samples on kernel events they sample in
kernel land but may have come from user land. Avoid the target being a
user address but allow the source to be in user land. Aarch64 may not
leak the user land addresses (making them 0) but other platforms
do. As the kernel address sampling implies privelege, just allow this.
Increase the duration of the system call sampling test to make the
likelihood of sampling a system call higher (increased from 1000 to
8000 loops - a number found through experimentation on an Intel
Tigerlake laptop), also make the period of the event a prime number.
Put unneeded perf record output into a temporary file so that the test
output isn't cluttered. More clearly state which test is running and
the pass, fail or skipped result of the test.
These changes make the test on an Intel tigerlake laptop reliably pass
rather than reliably fail.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
When adding a probe for libc's inet_pton, perf probe may create multiple
probe points (e.g., due to inlining or multiple symbol resolutions),
resulting in multiple identical event names being output (e.g.,
`probe_libc:inet_pton_1`).
The script previously used a brittle pipeline (`tail -n +2 | head -n -5`)
and an awk script to extract the event name. When multiple probes were
added, awk would output the event name multiple times, which expanded
to multiple words in bash. This broke the subsequent `perf record` and
`perf probe -d` commands, causing the test to fail with:
`Error: another command except --add is set.`
Fix this by removing the brittle `tail/head` commands and appending
`| head -n 1` to the awk extraction. This ensures that only a single,
unique event name is captured, regardless of how many probe points
are created.
Additionally, the test artificially limited the backtrace size via
`max-stack=4` and did not specify dwarf call graphs for non-s390x
architectures. In newer libc versions where `inet_pton` is nested
deeper or compiled without frame pointers, `perf script` failed to resolve
the backtrace up to `/bin/ping`. Fix this by explicitly collecting
dwarf call-graphs for all architectures and increasing `max-stack` to 8.
Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Running both tests cases 126 128 together causes the first test case
126 to fail:
# for i in $(seq 3); do ./perf test 'perf trace BTF general tests' \
'perf trace record and replay'; done
126: perf trace BTF general tests : FAILED!
128: perf trace record and replay : Ok
126: perf trace BTF general tests : FAILED!
128: perf trace record and replay : Ok
126: perf trace BTF general tests : FAILED!
128: perf trace record and replay : Ok
#
Test case 126 fails because test case 128 runs concurrently as can
be observed using a ps -ef | grep perf output list on a different
window. Both do a perf trace command concurrently.
Make test case 'perf trace BTF general tests' exclusive.
Output after:
# for i in $(seq 3); do ./perf test 'perf trace BTF general tests' \
'perf trace record and replay'; done
127: perf trace BTF general tests : Ok
155: perf trace record and replay : Ok
127: perf trace BTF general tests : Ok
155: perf trace record and replay : Ok
127: perf trace BTF general tests : Ok
155: perf trace record and replay : Ok
#
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Running perf sched stats requires root and it fails to open the
schedstat file for regular users. Let's skip the test.
$ perf sched stats true
Failed to open /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Writing to the perf.data file can fail in various contexts such as
continual test. Other tests write to a mktemp-ed file, make the "perf
sched stats tests" follow this convention.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Add basic kwork coverage tests for record, report, latency, timehist
and top.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Test case 'perf data type profiling tests' fails on s390 with this
error:
# ./perf mem record -- ./perf test -w code_with_type
failed: no PMU supports the memory events
# echo $?
255
#
because s390 does not support memory events at all. According to the
man page, perf annotate --code-with-type only works with memory
instructions only. As command 'perf mem record ...' is not supported
on s390, skip this test for s390.
Output before:
# ./perf test 'perf data type profiling tests'
77: perf data type profiling tests : FAILED!
Output after:
# ./perf test 'perf data type profiling tests'
77: perf data type profiling tests : Skip
Fixes: f60a5c2296 ("perf tests: Test annotate with data type profiling and rust")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The test constantly fails on my Intel hybrid machine. The issue was it
has two events in the output even if I only gave it one event.
$ perf stat -e instructions -- perf test -w sqrtloop
Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w sqrtloop':
910,856,421 cpu_atom/instructions/ (28.05%)
14,852,865,997 cpu_core/instructions/ (96.79%)
1.014313341 seconds time elapsed
1.004114000 seconds user
0.008174000 seconds sys
Let's modify the awk script to add the values for each line and print
the total. The variable 'i' has a number of input lines that have valid
output and variable 'c' has the sum of actual counter values. That way
it should work on any platforms.
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Writing to the test output files in the current working directory can
fail in various contexts such as continual test. Other tests write to
a mktemp-ed file, make the "perf script task-analyszer tests" follow
this convention too. Currently this isn't possible for the perf.data
file due to a lack of perf script support, add a variable for when
this support is available.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The typedef creates an issue where the struct or the typedef may
appear in the output and cause the "perf data type profiling tests" to
fail. Let's remove the typedef to keep the test passing.
Fixes: 335047109d ("perf tests: Test annotate with data type profiling and C")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
If babeltrace is detected check that --to-ctf functions with a data
file and in pipe mode.
Committer testing:
$ perf test 'perf data convert --to-ctf'
124: 'perf data convert --to-ctf' command test : Ok
$ perf test -vv 'perf data convert --to-ctf'
124: 'perf data convert --to-ctf' command test:
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 556008
libbabeltrace: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBABELTRACE_SUPPORT
Testing Perf Data Conversion Command to CTF (File input)
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.021 MB /tmp/__perf_test.perf.data.9TxzZ (115 samples) ]
[ perf data convert: Converted '/tmp/__perf_test.perf.data.9TxzZ' into CTF data '/tmp/__perf_test.ctf.f5EkS' ]
[ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 0.012 MB (115 samples) ]
Perf Data Converter Command to CTF (File input) [SUCCESS]
Testing Perf Data Conversion Command to CTF (Pipe mode)
[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.047 MB - ]
Failed to setup all events.
[ perf data convert: Converted '/tmp/__perf_test.perf.data.9TxzZ' into CTF data '/tmp/__perf_test.ctf.f5EkS' ]
[ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 0.000 MB (0 samples) ]
Perf Data Converter Command to CTF (Pipe mode) [SUCCESS]
Unexpected signal in main
---- end(0) ----
124: 'perf data convert --to-ctf' command test : Ok
$
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.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: Derek Foreman <derek.foreman@collabora.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>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add pipe mode test for json data conversion. Tidy up exit and cleanup
code.
Committer testing:
$ perf test 'perf data convert --to-json'
124: 'perf data convert --to-json' command test : Ok
$ perf test -vv 'perf data convert --to-json'
124: 'perf data convert --to-json' command test:
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 548738
Testing Perf Data Conversion Command to JSON
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.020 MB /tmp/__perf_test.perf.data.krxvl (104 samples) ]
[ perf data convert: Converted '/tmp/__perf_test.perf.data.krxvl' into JSON data '/tmp/__perf_test.output.json.0z60p' ]
[ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 0.075 MB (104 samples) ]
Perf Data Converter Command to JSON [SUCCESS]
Validating Perf Data Converted JSON file
The file contains valid JSON format [SUCCESS]
Testing Perf Data Conversion Command to JSON (Pipe mode)
[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.046 MB - ]
[ perf data convert: Converted '-' into JSON data '/tmp/__perf_test.output.json.0z60p' ]
[ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 0.081 MB (110 samples) ]
Perf Data Converter Command to JSON (Pipe mode) [SUCCESS]
Validating Perf Data Converted JSON file
The file contains valid JSON format [SUCCESS]
---- end(0) ----
124: 'perf data convert --to-json' command test : Ok
$
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.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: Derek Foreman <derek.foreman@collabora.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>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung suggested skipping only the rust tests when the code_with_type
'perf test' workload is not built into perf, do it so that we can
continue to test the C based workloads:
With rust:
root@number:/# perf test -vv "data type"
83: perf data type profiling tests:
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 2645245
Basic Rust perf annotate test
Basic annotate test [Success]
Pipe Rust perf annotate test
Pipe annotate test [Success]
Basic C perf annotate test
Basic annotate test [Success]
Pipe C perf annotate test
Pipe annotate test [Success]
---- end(0) ----
83: perf data type profiling tests : Ok
root@number:/#
Without:
root@number:/# perf test "data type"
83: perf data type profiling tests : Ok
root@number:/# perf test -vv "data type"
83: perf data type profiling tests:
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 2634759
Basic Rust perf annotate test
Skip: code_with_type workload not built in 'perf test'
Pipe Rust perf annotate test
Skip: code_with_type workload not built in 'perf test'
Basic C perf annotate test
Basic annotate test [Success]
Pipe C perf annotate test
Pipe annotate test [Success]
---- end(0) ----
83: perf data type profiling tests : Ok
root@number:/#
Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
$ perf test 'perf data type profiling tests'
83: perf data type profiling tests : Skip
$ perf test -vv 'perf data type profiling tests'
83: perf data type profiling tests:
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 977213
Skip: code_with_type workload not built in 'perf test'
---- end(-2) ----
83: perf data type profiling tests : Skip
$
Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Exercise the annotate command with data type profiling feature with C.
For that extend the existing data type profiling shell test to profile
the datasym workload, then annotate the result expecting to see some
data structures from the C code.
Committer testing:
root@number:~# perf test 'perf data type profiling tests'
83: perf data type profiling tests : Ok
root@number:~# perf test -vv 'perf data type profiling tests'
83: perf data type profiling tests:
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 125028
Basic Rust perf annotate test
Basic annotate test [Success]
Pipe Rust perf annotate test
Pipe annotate test [Success]
Basic C perf annotate test
Basic annotate test [Success]
Pipe C perf annotate test
Pipe annotate test [Success]
---- end(0) ----
83: perf data type profiling tests : Ok
root@number:~#
Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Exercise the annotate command with data type profiling feature on the
rust runtime. For that add a new shell test, which will profile the
code_with_type workload, then annotate the result expecting to see some
data structures from the rust code.
Committer testing:
root@number:~# perf test 'perf data type profiling tests'
83: perf data type profiling tests : Ok
root@number:~# perf test -v 'perf data type profiling tests'
83: perf data type profiling tests : Ok
root@number:~# perf test -vv 'perf data type profiling tests'
83: perf data type profiling tests:
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 111044
Basic perf annotate test
Basic annotate test [Success]
Pipe perf annotate test
Pipe annotate test [Success]
---- end(0) ----
83: perf data type profiling tests : Ok
root@number:~#
Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add quotes to avoid the following warning:
```
In tests/shell/record.sh line 264:
[ $(uname -m) = "s390x" ] && {
^---------^ SC2046 (warning): Quote this to prevent word splitting.
For more information:
https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2046 -- Quote this to prevent word splitt...
```
Fixes: c73a56ed3c ("perf test: Fix test case Leader sampling on s390")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The subtest 'Leader sampling' some time fails on s390.
- for z/VM guest: Disable the test for z/VM guest. There is no
CPU Measurement facility to run the test successfully.
- for LPAR: Use correct event names.
A detailed analysis follows here:
Now to the debugging and investigation:
1. With command
perf record -e '{cycles,cycles}:S' -- ....
the first cycles event starts sampling.
On s390 this sets up sampling with a frequency of 4000 Hz.
This translates to hardware sample rate of 1377000 instructions per
micro-second to meet a frequency of 4000 HZ.
2. With first event cycles now sampling into a hardware buffer, an
interrupt is triggered each time a sampling buffer gets full.
The interrupt handler is then invoked and debug output shows the
processing of samples. The size of one hardware sample is 32 bytes.
With an interrupt triggered when the hardware buffer page of 4KB
gets full, the interrupt handler processes 128 samples.
(This is taken from s390 specific fast debug data gathering)
2025-11-07 14:35:51.977248 000003ffe013cbfa \
perf_event_count_update event->count 0x0 count 0x1502e8
2025-11-07 14:35:51.977248 000003ffe013cbfa \
perf_event_count_update event->count 0x1502e8 count 0x1502e8
2025-11-07 14:35:51.977248 000003ffe013cbfa \
perf_event_count_update event->count 0x2a05d0 count 0x1502e8
2025-11-07 14:35:51.977252 000003ffe013cbfa \
perf_event_count_update event->count 0x3f08b8 count 0x1502e8
2025-11-07 14:35:51.977252 000003ffe013cbfa \
perf_event_count_update event->count 0x540ba0 count 0x1502e8
2025-11-07 14:35:51.977253 000003ffe013cbfa \
perf_event_count_update event->count 0x690e88 count 0x1502e8
2025-11-07 14:35:51.977254 000003ffe013cbfa \
perf_event_count_update event->count 0x7e1170 count 0x1502e8
2025-11-07 14:35:51.977254 000003ffe013cbfa \
perf_event_count_update event->count 0x931458 count 0x1502e8
2025-11-07 14:35:51.977254 000003ffe013cbfa \
perf_event_count_update event->count 0xa81740 count 0x1502e8
3. The value is constantly increasing by the number of instructions
executed to generate a sample entry. This is the first line of the
pairs of lines. count 0x1502e8 --> 1377000
# perf script | grep 1377000 | wc -l
214
# perf script | wc -l
428
#
That is 428 lines in total, and half of the lines contain value
1377000.
4. The second event cycles is opened against the counting PMU, which
is an independent PMU and is not interrupt driven. Once enabled it
runs in the background and keeps running, incrementing silently
about 400+ counters. The counter values are read via assembly
instructions.
This second counter PMU's read call back function is called when the
interrupt handler of the sampling facility processes each sample. The
function call sequence is:
perf_event_overflow()
+--> __perf_event_overflow()
+--> __perf_event_output()
+--> perf_output_sample()
+--> perf_output_read()
+--> perf_output_read_group()
for_each_sibling_event(sub, leader) {
values[n++] = perf_event_count(sub, self);
printk("%s sub %p values %#lx\n", __func__, sub, values[n-1]);
}
The last function perf_event_count() is invoked on the second event
cylces *on* the counting PMU. An added printk statement shows the
following lines in the dmesg output:
# dmesg|grep perf_output_read_group |head -10
[ 332.368620] perf_output_read_group sub 00000000d80b7c1f values 0x3a80917 (1)
[ 332.368624] perf_output_read_group sub 00000000d80b7c1f values 0x3a86c7f (2)
[ 332.368627] perf_output_read_group sub 00000000d80b7c1f values 0x3a89c15 (3)
[ 332.368629] perf_output_read_group sub 00000000d80b7c1f values 0x3a8c895 (4)
[ 332.368631] perf_output_read_group sub 00000000d80b7c1f values 0x3a8f569 (5)
[ 332.368633] perf_output_read_group sub 00000000d80b7c1f values 0x3a9204b
[ 332.368635] perf_output_read_group sub 00000000d80b7c1f values 0x3a94790
[ 332.368637] perf_output_read_group sub 00000000d80b7c1f values 0x3a9704b
[ 332.368638] perf_output_read_group sub 00000000d80b7c1f values 0x3a99888
#
This correlates with the output of
# perf report -D | grep 'id 00000000000000'|head -10
..... id 0000000000000006, value 00000000001502e8, lost 0
..... id 000000000000000e, value 0000000003a80917, lost 0 --> line (1) above
..... id 0000000000000006, value 00000000002a05d0, lost 0
..... id 000000000000000e, value 0000000003a86c7f, lost 0 --> line (2) above
..... id 0000000000000006, value 00000000003f08b8, lost 0
..... id 000000000000000e, value 0000000003a89c15, lost 0 --> line (3) above
..... id 0000000000000006, value 0000000000540ba0, lost 0
..... id 000000000000000e, value 0000000003a8c895, lost 0 --> line (4) above
..... id 0000000000000006, value 0000000000690e88, lost 0
..... id 000000000000000e, value 0000000003a8f569, lost 0 --> line (5) above
Summary:
- Above command starts the CPU sampling facility, with runs interrupt
driven when a 4KB page is full. An interrupt processes the 128 samples
and calls eventually perf_output_read_group() for each sample to save it
in the event's ring buffer.
- At that time the CPU counting facility is invoked to read the value of
the event cycles. This value is saved as the second value in the
sample_read structure.
- The first and odd lines in the perf script output displays the period
value between 2 samples being created by hardware. It is the number
of instructions executes before the hardware writes a sample.
- The second and even lines in the perf script output displays the number
of CPU cycles needed to process each sample and save it in the event's
ring buffer.
These 2 different values can never be identical on s390.
Since event leader sampling is not possible on s390 the perf tool will
return EOPNOTSUPP soon. Perpare the test case for that.
Suggested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Perf test case 'perf evlist tests' fails on z/VM machines on s390.
The failure is causes by event cycles. This event is not available
on virtualized machines like z/VM on s390.
Change to software event cpu-clock to fix this.
Output before:
# ./perf test 78
79: perf evlist tests : FAILED!
#
Output after:
# ./perf test 78
79: perf evlist tests : Ok
#
Fixes: b04d2b9199 ("perf test: Fix test case perf evlist tests for s390x")
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
$ perf test -vv "DWARF callchain"
87: perf inject to convert DWARF callchains to regular ones:
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 1560328
recording data with DWARF callchain
[ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.908 MB /tmp/perf-test.nM3WoW (105 samples) ]
convert DWARF callchain using perf inject
compare the both result excluding inlined functions
---- end(0) ----
87: perf inject to convert DWARF callchains to regular ones : Ok
$
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It uses tools/perf/include which assumes it's running from the root of
the linux kernel source tree. But you can run perf from other places
like tools/perf, then the include path won't match. We can use the
shelldir variable to locate the test script in the tree.
$ cd tools/perf
$ ./perf test dlfilter
63: dlfilter C API : Ok
101: perf script --dlfilter tests : Ok
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add a test that seeks to see inline functions correctly displayed in
'perf script' from the inlineloop workload.
Committer testing:
# perf test 'addr2line inline unwinding'
76: test addr2line inline unwinding : Ok
# perf test -vv 'addr2line inline unwinding'
76: test addr2line inline unwinding:
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 1508628
Inline unwinding verification test
[ perf record: Woken up 129 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 32.282 MB /tmp/perf-test-inline-addr2line.L4Sz8QtADJ/perf.data (4014 samples) ]
Inline unwinding verification test [Success]
---- end(0) ----
76: test addr2line inline unwinding : Ok
#
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.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: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
On s390 'perf test's 'perf stat tests', subtest test_hybrid fails for
z/VM systems. The root cause is this statement:
$(perf stat -a -- sleep 0.1 2>&1 |\
grep -E "/cpu-cycles/[uH]*| cpu-cycles[:uH]* -c)
The 'perf stat' output on a s390 z/VM system is
# perf stat -a -- sleep 0.1 2>&1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
56 context-switches # 46.3 cs/sec cs_per_second
1,210.41 msec cpu-clock # 11.9 CPUs CPUs_utilized
12 cpu-migrations # 9.9 migrations/sec ...
81 page-faults # 66.9 faults/sec ...
0.100891009 seconds time elapsed
The grep command does not match any single line and exits with error
code 1.
As the bash script is executed with 'set -e', it aborts with the first
error code being non-zero.
Fix this and use 'wc -l' to count matching lines instead of 'grep ... -c'.
Output before:
# perf test 102
102: perf stat tests : FAILED!
#
Output after:
# perf test 102
102: perf stat tests : Ok
#
Fixes: bb6e7cb11d ("perf tools: Add fallback for exclude_guest")
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Perf test case 78: perf evlist tests fails on s390.
The failure is causes by grouping events cycles and instructions because
sampling does only support event cycles. Change the group to software
events to fix this.
Output before:
# ./perf test 78
78: perf evlist tests : FAILED!
#
Output after:
# ./perf test 78
78: perf evlist tests : Ok
#
Fixes: db452961de ("perf tests evlist: Add basic evlist test")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
With sufficient tests running the load causes the top test fails with:
```
123: perf top tests : FAILED!
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 629856
Basic perf top test
Basic perf top test [Failed: no sample percentage found]
---- end(-1) ----
```
Mark the test exclusive to avoid flakes.
Fixes: 75e961730b ("perf tests top: Add basic perf top coverage test")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Ensure the perf.data output when checking permissions is written to
/dev/null so that it isn't left in the directory the test is run.
Fixes: b58261584d ("perf test kvm: Add some basic perf kvm test coverage")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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
...
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
