On my system, perf list is very slow to print the whole events. I think
there's a performance issue in SDT and uprobes event listing. I noticed
this issue while running perf test on x86 but it takes long to check
some CoreSight event which should be skipped quickly.
Anyway, some test uses perf list to check whether the required event is
available before running the test. The perf list command can take an
argument to specify event class or (glob) pattern. But glob pattern is
only to suppress output for unmatched ones after checking all events.
In this case, specifying event class is better to reduce the number of
events it checks and to avoid buggy subsystems entirely.
No functional changes intended.
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Carsten Haitzler <carsten.haitzler@arm.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016065654.269994-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Add it to the record.sh shell test to verify if it tracks cgroup
information correctly. It records with --all-cgroups option can check
if it has PERF_RECORD_CGROUP and the names are not "unknown".
$ sudo ./perf test -vv 95
95: perf record tests:
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 2871922
169c90-169cd0 g test_loop
perf does have symbol 'test_loop'
Basic --per-thread mode test
Basic --per-thread mode test [Success]
Register capture test
Register capture test [Success]
Basic --system-wide mode test
Basic --system-wide mode test [Success]
Basic target workload test
Basic target workload test [Success]
Branch counter test
branch counter feature not supported on all core PMUs (/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu) [Skipped]
Cgroup sampling test
Cgroup sampling test [Success]
---- end(0) ----
95: perf record 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: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240818212948.2873156-2-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subtest for system-wide record with '--threads=cpu' option fails due
to a limit of open file descriptors on systems with 128 or more CPUs
as the default limit is set to 1024.
The number of open file descriptors should be slightly above
nmb_events*nmb_cpus + nmb_cpus(for perf.data.n) + 4*nmb_cpus(for pipes),
which equals 8*nmb_cpus. Therefore, temporarily raise the limit to
16*nmb_cpus for the test.
Committer notes:
Instead of disabling ShellCheck warnings all the uses of 'uname -n',
i.e. those:
In tests/shell/record.sh line 35:
default_fd_limit=$(ulimit -Sn)
^-^ SC3045 (warning): In POSIX sh, ulimit -S is undefined.
We can just switch from using '/bin/sh' to '/bin/bash' for this test, as
bash _has_ 'ulimit -n', so ShellCheck will not emit that warning.
There are dozens of 'perf test' shell tests that do just that,
'/bin/bash' is a reasonable expectation for those tests.
Signed-off-by: Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Radostin Stoyanov <rstoyano@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20240429085721.10122-1-vmolnaro@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf record test depends on finding symbol test_loop in perf, and fails if
perf has been stripped and no debug object is available. In that case, skip
the test instead.
Example:
Note, building with perl support adds option -Wl,-E which causes the
linker to add all (global) symbols to the dynamic symbol table. So the
test_loop symbol, being global, does not get stripped unless NO_LIBPERL=1
Before:
$ make NO_LIBPERL=1 -C tools/perf >/dev/null 2>&1
$ strip tools/perf/perf
$ tools/perf/perf buildid-cache -p `realpath tools/perf/perf`
$ tools/perf/perf test -v 'record tests'
91: perf record tests :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 118750
Basic --per-thread mode test
Per-thread record [Failed missing output]
Register capture test
Register capture test [Success]
Basic --system-wide mode test
System-wide record [Skipped not supported]
Basic target workload test
Workload record [Failed missing output]
test child finished with -1
---- end ----
perf record tests: FAILED!
After:
$ tools/perf/perf test -v 'record tests'
91: perf record tests :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 120025
perf does not have symbol 'test_loop'
perf is missing symbols - skipping test
test child finished with -2
---- end ----
perf record tests: Skip
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231123075848.9652-5-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf test -F 81 ("perf record tests") -v fails on s390x on the
linux-next branch.
The test case is x86 specific can not be executed on s390x. The test
case depends on x86 register names such as:
... | egrep -q 'available registers: AX BX CX DX ....'
Skip this test case on s390x.
Output before:
# perf test -F 81
81: perf record tests : FAILED!
#
Output after:
# perf test -F 81
81: perf record tests : Skip
#
Fixes: 24f378e660 ("perf test: Add basic perf record tests")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220428122821.3652015-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
