kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_brstack.sh, branch v6.19.11

perf test: Extend branch stack sampling test for Arm64 BRBE

2025-10-01T18:31:49+00:00

BRBE emits IRQ and ERET branches for branching and returning from trapped instructions. Add a test that loops on a trapped instruction (MRS - Read special register) for this. Extend the expected 'any_call' branches to include FAULT_DATA and FAULT_INST as these are emitted by BRBE. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Co-developed-by: German Gomez Signed-off-by: German Gomez Signed-off-by: James Clark Cc: Adam Young Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf test: Add syscall and address tests to brstack test

2025-10-01T18:31:34+00:00

Test that SYSCALL type branches are emitted from the expected 'getppid' symbol. Test that when only 'k' is used, sources addresses are all in the kernel. Test that no kernel addresses leak by checking for them in the 'u' test. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: James Clark Cc: Adam Young Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: German Gomez Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf test: Refactor brstack test

2025-10-01T18:30:58+00:00

check_branches() will be used by other tests in a later commit so make it a function. And the any_call filters are duplicated and will also be extended in a later commit, so move them to a variable. No functional changes intended. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: James Clark Cc: Adam Young Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: German Gomez Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tests: Harden branch stack sampling test

2025-05-12T17:55:15+00:00

On continuous testing the perf script output can be empty, or nearly empty, causing tr/grep to exit and due to "set -e" the test traps and fails. Add some empty file handling that sets the test to skip and make grep and other text rewriting failures non-fatal by adding "|| true". Committer testing: root@number:~# grep -m1 "model name" /proc/cpuinfo model name : AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core Processor root@number:~# perf test "Check branch stack sampling" 104: Check branch stack sampling : Ok root@number:~# root@number:~# perf test -vvvvvvv "Check branch stack sampling" 104: Check branch stack sampling: --- start --- test child forked, pid 396047 142d22-142da0 l brstack_bench perf does have symbol 'brstack_bench' Testing user branch stack sampling Testing branch stack filtering permutation (any_call,CALL|IND_CALL|COND_CALL|SYSCALL|IRQ) Testing branch stack filtering permutation (call,CALL|SYSCALL) Testing branch stack filtering permutation (cond,COND) Testing branch stack filtering permutation (any_ret,RET|COND_RET|SYSRET|ERET) Testing branch stack filtering permutation (call,cond,CALL|SYSCALL|COND) Testing branch stack filtering permutation (any_call,cond,CALL|IND_CALL|COND_CALL|IRQ|SYSCALL|COND) Testing branch stack filtering permutation (cond,any_call,any_ret,COND|CALL|IND_CALL|COND_CALL|SYSCALL|IRQ|RET|COND_RET|SYSRET|ERET) ---- end(0) ---- 104: Check branch stack sampling : Ok root@number:~# Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: German Gomez Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318161639.34446-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf test brstack: Speed up running test by using tr -s instead of xargs

2025-01-14T17:57:19+00:00

The brstack test runs quite slowly in software models. Part of the reason is "xargs -n1" is quite inefficient in replacing spaces with newlines. While that's not noticeable on normal machines, it is on software models. Use "tr -s ' ' '\n'" instead which can do the same transformation, but is much faster. For comparison on an M1 Macbook Pro: $ time seq -s ' ' 10000 | xargs -n1 > /dev/null real 0m2.729s user 0m2.009s sys 0m0.914s $ time seq -s ' ' 10000 | tr -s ' ' '\n' | grep '.' > /dev/null real 0m0.002s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.001s The "grep '.'" is also needed to remove any remaining blank lines. Signed-off-by: James Clark Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Reviewed-by: James Clark Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213231312.2640687-2-robh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Signed-off-by: Rob Herring [robh: Drop changing loop iterations on arm64. Squash blank line fix and redo commit msg] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tests: Skip branch stack sampling test if brstack_bench symbol is missing

2023-11-27T18:40:22+00:00

The test "Check branch stack sampling" depends on finding symbol brstack_bench (and several others) in perf, and fails if perf has been stripped and no debug object is available. In that case, skip the test instead. Example: Before: $ strip tools/perf/perf $ tools/perf/perf buildid-cache -p `realpath tools/perf/perf` $ tools/perf/perf test -v 'branch stack sampling' 112: Check branch stack sampling : --- start --- test child forked, pid 123741 Testing user branch stack sampling + grep -E -m1 ^brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/brstack_foo\+[^ ]*/IND_CALL/.*$ /tmp/__perf_test.program.5Dz1U/perf.script + cleanup + rm -rf /tmp/__perf_test.program.5Dz1U test child finished with -1 ---- end ---- Check branch stack sampling: FAILED! After: $ tools/perf/perf test -v 'branch stack sampling' 112: Check branch stack sampling : --- start --- test child forked, pid 125157 perf does not have symbol 'brstack_bench' perf is missing symbols - skipping test test child finished with -2 ---- end ---- Check branch stack sampling: Skip Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: Ian Rogers Cc: German Gomez Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231123075848.9652-7-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tests test_brstack.sh: Fix all POSIX sh warnings

2023-06-14T02:40:34+00:00

Fix all the POSIX sh warnings in perf shell test test_brstack.sh Warnings fixed : * In POSIX sh, using lower/mixed case for signal names is undefined. Correcting that in this script. * In POSIX sh, 'local' is undefined. local is supported in many shells, but it's not in POSIX. In POSIX sh, you can adopt some convention to avoid accidentally overwriting variables names, e.g. prefixing with the function name, that is what I have done here. Signed-off-by: Geetika Cc: Disha Goel Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613164145.50488-14-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf session: Show branch speculation info in raw dump

2023-02-02T20:18:31+00:00

Show the branch speculation info if provided by the branch recording hardware feature. This can be useful for purposes of code optimization. E.g. $ perf record -j any,u ./test_branch $ perf report --dump-raw-trace Before: [...] 8380958377610 0x40b178 [0x1b0]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x2): 7952/7952: 0x4f851a period: 48973 addr: 0 ... branch stack: nr:16 ..... 0: 00000000004b52fd -> 00000000004f82c0 0 cycles P 0 ..... 1: ffffffff8220137c -> 00000000004b52f0 0 cycles M 0 ..... 2: 000000000041d1c4 -> 00000000004b52f0 0 cycles P 0 ..... 3: 00000000004e7ead -> 000000000041d1b0 0 cycles M 0 ..... 4: 00000000004e7f91 -> 00000000004e7ead 0 cycles P 0 ..... 5: 00000000004e7ea8 -> 00000000004e7f70 0 cycles P 0 ..... 6: 00000000004e7e52 -> 00000000004e7e98 0 cycles M 0 ..... 7: 00000000004e7e1f -> 00000000004e7e40 0 cycles M 0 ..... 8: 00000000004e7f60 -> 00000000004e7df0 0 cycles P 0 ..... 9: 00000000004e7f58 -> 00000000004e7f60 0 cycles M 0 ..... 10: 000000000041d85d -> 00000000004e7f50 0 cycles P 0 ..... 11: 000000000043306a -> 000000000041d840 0 cycles P 0 ..... 12: ffffffff8220137c -> 0000000000433040 0 cycles M 0 ..... 13: 000000000041e4a1 -> 0000000000433040 0 cycles P 0 ..... 14: ffffffff8220137c -> 000000000041e490 0 cycles M 0 ..... 15: 000000000041d89b -> 000000000041e487 0 cycles P 0 ... thread: test_branch:7952 ...... dso: /data/sandipan/test_branch [...] After: [...] 8380958377610 0x40b178 [0x1b0]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x2): 7952/7952: 0x4f851a period: 48973 addr: 0 ... branch stack: nr:16 ..... 0: 00000000004b52fd -> 00000000004f82c0 0 cycles P 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 1: ffffffff8220137c -> 00000000004b52f0 0 cycles M 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 2: 000000000041d1c4 -> 00000000004b52f0 0 cycles P 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 3: 00000000004e7ead -> 000000000041d1b0 0 cycles M 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 4: 00000000004e7f91 -> 00000000004e7ead 0 cycles P 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 5: 00000000004e7ea8 -> 00000000004e7f70 0 cycles P 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 6: 00000000004e7e52 -> 00000000004e7e98 0 cycles M 0 SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 7: 00000000004e7e1f -> 00000000004e7e40 0 cycles M 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 8: 00000000004e7f60 -> 00000000004e7df0 0 cycles P 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 9: 00000000004e7f58 -> 00000000004e7f60 0 cycles M 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 10: 000000000041d85d -> 00000000004e7f50 0 cycles P 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 11: 000000000043306a -> 000000000041d840 0 cycles P 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 12: ffffffff8220137c -> 0000000000433040 0 cycles M 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 13: 000000000041e4a1 -> 0000000000433040 0 cycles P 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 14: ffffffff8220137c -> 000000000041e490 0 cycles M 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ..... 15: 000000000041d89b -> 000000000041e487 0 cycles P 0 NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH ... thread: test_branch:7952 ...... dso: /data/sandipan/test_branch [...] With the addition of new branch flags, the "brstacksym" fields in perf script output now shows speculation information after the branch type. Change the regular expressions accordingly for the test to pass. Since branch speculation information may vary across platforms, the test does not look for specific values. E.g. $ perf test -v 110 Before: 110: Check branch stack sampling : --- start --- test child forked, pid 54154 Testing user branch stack sampling + grep -E -m1 ^brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/brstack_foo\+[^ ]*/IND_CALL$ /tmp/__perf_test.program.AfhUI/perf.script + cleanup + rm -rf /tmp/__perf_test.program.AfhUI test child finished with -1 ---- end ---- Check branch stack sampling: FAILED! After: 110: Check branch stack sampling : --- start --- test child forked, pid 43716 Testing user branch stack sampling + grep -E -m1 ^brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/brstack_foo\+[^ ]*/IND_CALL/.*$ /tmp/__perf_test.program.xgzAi/perf.script brstack_bench+0x66/brstack_foo+0x0/P/-/-/0/IND_CALL/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH + grep -E -m1 ^brstack_foo\+[^ ]*/brstack_bar\+[^ ]*/CALL/.*$ /tmp/__perf_test.program.xgzAi/perf.script brstack_foo+0x1b/brstack_bar+0x0/P/-/-/0/CALL/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH + grep -E -m1 ^brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/brstack_foo\+[^ ]*/CALL/.*$ /tmp/__perf_test.program.xgzAi/perf.script brstack_bench+0x58/brstack_foo+0x0/P/-/-/0/CALL/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH + grep -E -m1 ^brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/brstack_bar\+[^ ]*/CALL/.*$ /tmp/__perf_test.program.xgzAi/perf.script brstack_bench+0x5d/brstack_bar+0x0/P/-/-/0/CALL/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH + grep -E -m1 ^brstack_bar\+[^ ]*/brstack_foo\+[^ ]*/RET/.*$ /tmp/__perf_test.program.xgzAi/perf.script brstack_bar+0x31/brstack_foo+0x20/P/-/-/0/RET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH + grep -E -m1 ^brstack_foo\+[^ ]*/brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/RET/.*$ /tmp/__perf_test.program.xgzAi/perf.script brstack_foo+0x36/brstack_bench+0x5d/P/-/-/0/RET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH + grep -E -m1 ^brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/COND/.*$ /tmp/__perf_test.program.xgzAi/perf.script brstack_bench+0x76/brstack_bench+0x7d/P/-/-/0/COND/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH + grep -E -m1 ^brstack\+[^ ]*/brstack\+[^ ]*/UNCOND/.*$ /tmp/__perf_test.program.xgzAi/perf.script brstack+0x5a/brstack+0x41/P/-/-/0/UNCOND/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH + set +x Testing branch stack filtering permutation (any_call,CALL|IND_CALL|COND_CALL|SYSCALL|IRQ) Testing branch stack filtering permutation (call,CALL|SYSCALL) Testing branch stack filtering permutation (cond,COND) Testing branch stack filtering permutation (any_ret,RET|COND_RET|SYSRET|ERET) Testing branch stack filtering permutation (call,cond,CALL|SYSCALL|COND) Testing branch stack filtering permutation (any_call,cond,CALL|IND_CALL|COND_CALL|IRQ|SYSCALL|COND) Testing branch stack filtering permutation (cond,any_call,any_ret,COND|CALL|IND_CALL|COND_CALL|SYSCALL|IRQ|RET|COND_RET|SYSRET|ERET) test child finished with 0 ---- end ---- Check branch stack sampling: Ok Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ananth Narayan Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Santosh Shukla Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: x86@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/048d67c9de3cc8e3dbf19aaa7ff718dec91364c5.1675333809.git.sandipan.das@amd.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use "grep -E" instead of "egrep"

2022-12-14T18:28:19+00:00

The latest version of grep claims the egrep is now obsolete so the build now contains warnings that look like: egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E fix this up by moving the related file to use "grep -E" instead. sed -i "s/egrep/grep -E/g" `grep egrep -rwl tools/perf` Here are the steps to install the latest grep: wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.8.tar.gz tar xf grep-3.8.tar.gz cd grep-3.8 && ./configure && make sudo make install export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang Acked-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1668762999-9297-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf test: Replace brstack test workload

2022-11-23T13:28:31+00:00

So that it can get rid of requirement of a compiler. Also rename the symbols to match with the perf test workload. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Tested-by: James Clark Acked-by: German Gomez Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Athira Jajeev Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Zhengjun Xing Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116233854.1596378-11-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo