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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Test cases from perftool_testsuite are affected by the current
directory where the test are run. For this reason, the test
driver has to change the directory to the base_dir for references to
work correctly.
Utilize absolute paths when sourcing and referencing other scripts so
that the current working directory doesn't impact the test cases.
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Brnak <jbrnak@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The detection of uncore_imc may happen for free running PMUs and the
clockticks event may be present on uncore_clock. Rewrite the test to
detect duplicated/deduplicated events from perf list, not hardcoded to
uncore_imc.
If perf stat fails then assume it is permissions and skip the test.
Committer testing:
Before:
root@x1:~# perf test -vv uniquifyi
96: perf stat events uniquifying:
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 220851
stat event uniquifying test
grep: Unmatched [, [^, [:, [., or [=
Event is not uniquified [Failed]
perf stat -e clockticks -A -o /tmp/__perf_test.stat_output.X7ChD -- true
# started on Fri Sep 19 16:48:38 2025
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
CPU0 2,310,956 uncore_clock/clockticks/
0.001746771 seconds time elapsed
---- end(-1) ----
96: perf stat events uniquifying : FAILED!
root@x1:~#
After:
root@x1:~# perf test -vv uniquifyi
96: perf stat events uniquifying:
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 222366
Uniquification of PMU sysfs events test
Testing event uncore_imc_free_running/data_read/ is uniquified to uncore_imc_free_running_0/data_read/
Testing event uncore_imc_free_running/data_total/ is uniquified to uncore_imc_free_running_0/data_total/
Testing event uncore_imc_free_running/data_write/ is uniquified to uncore_imc_free_running_0/data_write/
Testing event uncore_imc_free_running/data_read/ is uniquified to uncore_imc_free_running_1/data_read/
Testing event uncore_imc_free_running/data_total/ is uniquified to uncore_imc_free_running_1/data_total/
Testing event uncore_imc_free_running/data_write/ is uniquified to uncore_imc_free_running_1/data_write/
---- end(0) ----
96: perf stat events uniquifying : Ok
root@x1:~#
Fixes: 070b315333 ("perf test: Restrict uniquifying test to machines with 'uncore_imc'")
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: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
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>
When not running as root and with higher perf event paranoia values
the perf record LBR tests could fail rather than skipping the
problematic tests.
Add the sensitivity to the test and confirm it passes with paranoia
values from -1 to 2.
Committer testing:
Testing with '$ perf test -vv lbr', i.e. as non root, and then comparing
the output shows the mentioned errors before this patch:
acme@x1:~$ grep -m1 "model name" /proc/cpuinfo
model name : 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1365U
acme@x1:~$
Before:
132: perf record LBR tests : Skip
After:
132: perf record LBR tests : Ok
Fixes: 32559b99e0 ("perf test: Add set of perf record LBR tests")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
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>
To pick the fixes sent by Namhyung for tools/perf for v6.17-rc5 and get
closer to the other tools code that is used by tools/perf.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
commit edf2cadf01 ("perf test: add test for BPF metadata collection")
fails consistently on the version string check. The perf version
string on some of the constant integration test machines contains
characters with special meaning in grep's extended regular expression
matching algorithm. The output of perf version is:
# perf version
perf version 6.17.0-20250814.rc1.git20.24ea63ea3877.63.fc42.s390x+git
#
and the '+' character has special meaning in egrep command.
Also the use of egrep is deprecated.
Change the perf version string check to fixed character matching
and get rid of egrep's warning being deprecated. Use grep -F instead.
Output before:
# perf test -F 102
Checking BPF metadata collection
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
Basic BPF metadata test [Failed invalid output]
102: BPF metadata collection test : FAILED!
#
Output after:
# perf test -F 102
Checking BPF metadata collection
Basic BPF metadata test [Success]
102: BPF metadata collection test : Ok
#
Fixes: edf2cadf01 ("perf test: add test for BPF metadata collection")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Blake Jones <blakejones@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250822122540.4104658-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The 'kernel lock contention analysis test' requires reliable triggering
of lock contention. On some systems, previous benchmark calls failed to
generate sufficient contention due to low system activity or resource
limits.
This patch adds the -p (pipe) option to all calls of perf bench sched
messaging, ensuring consistent lock contention without relying on
socket-based communication.
Suggested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250725170801.3176678-1-japo@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The annotate test was sped up by Thomas Richter
<tmricht@linux.ibm.com> in commit
658a8805cb ("perf test: Speed up test case 70 annotate basic tests")
by reducing the annotate output using head. This causes flakes on
hybrid machines where the first event dumped may not have the samples
for the test within it. Rather than reduce the output using `head`
switch to `--percent-limit 10` which will stop annotate dumping
functions that have an overhead of less than 10%, the noploop program
should be using more.
Add the missing objdump option for the pipe mode version of the
objdump with a command test.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250628015832.1271229-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
