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

perf test: Fix test perf evlist for z/VM s390x

2026-03-04T12:19:27+00:00

[ Upstream commit 008603bda19b29687edce533e4c09acff68c1077 ] 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: b04d2b9199129f4f ("perf test: Fix test case perf evlist tests for s390x") Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: Jan Polensky Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter Tested-by: Jan Polensky Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Sumanth Korikkar Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Vasily Gorbik Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf tests sched: Avoid error in cleanup on loaded machines

2026-03-04T12:19:26+00:00

[ Upstream commit c5e47e4d00fbc15f2390bb6ed8d9c21836363291 ] The stop_noploops function will kill the noploop processes that are running for 10 seconds. On a loaded machine they may have already terminated meaning the kill will return an error of no such process. This doesn't matter and so ignore the error to avoid the test terminating in the cleanup. Fixes: 0e22c5ca44e68798 ("perf test: Add sched latency and script shell tests") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf test stat tests: Fix for virtualized machines

2026-03-04T12:19:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit e272628902c1c96731e2d9f62a7fc77767686eb0 ] 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: bb6e7cb11d97ce19 ("perf tools: Add fallback for exclude_guest") Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Jan Polensky Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Sumanth Korikkar Cc: Vasily Gorbik Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf test: Fix test case perf evlist tests for s390x

2026-03-04T12:19:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit b04d2b9199129f4f0c992a518c0fb78c2efc1064 ] 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: db452961de939225 ("perf tests evlist: Add basic evlist test") Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter Tested-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Jan Polensky Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Sumanth Korikkar Cc: Vasily Gorbik Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf tests top: Make the test exclusive

2025-12-23T18:13:50+00:00

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: 75e961730b9e ("perf tests top: Add basic perf top coverage test") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tests kvm: Avoid leaving perf.data.guest file around

2025-12-23T18:13:50+00:00

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: b58261584d2f ("perf test kvm: Add some basic perf kvm test coverage") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools

2025-12-07T15:07:02+00:00

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 c69993ecdd4d: "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 ...

perf tests stat: Add test for error for an offline CPU

2025-12-04T23:42:29+00:00

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 Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/94313b82-888b-4f42-9fb0-4585f9e90080@linux.ibm.com/ Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tests stat: Add "--null" coverage

2025-12-04T08:36:14+00:00

Ensure "--null" does a minimal run. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/aSwt7yzFjVJCEmVp@gmail.com/ Tested-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Thomas Richter Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf test kvm: Add some basic perf kvm test coverage

2025-12-03T19:07:47+00:00

Setup qemu with KVM then run kvm stat and some host recording/reporting/build-id tests. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim