kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/tests/switch-tracking.c, branch v6.19.11

perf test: Switch cycles event to cpu-cycles

2025-10-15T14:59:12+00:00

Without a PMU perf matches an event against any PMU with the event. Unfortunately some PMU drivers advertise a "cycles" event which is typically just a core event. As tests assume a core event, switch to use "cpu-cycles" that avoids the overloaded "cycles" event on troublesome PMUs and is so far not overloaded. Note, on x86 this changes a legacy event into a sysfs one. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf thread_map: Remove uid options

2025-06-09T18:18:18+00:00

Now the target doesn't have a uid, it is handled through BPF filters, remove the uid options to thread_map creation. Tidy up the functions used in tests to avoid passing unused arguments. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250604174545.2853620-11-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tests switch-tracking: Fix timestamp comparison

2025-05-24T14:40:47+00:00

The test might fail on the Arm64 platform with the error: # perf test -vvv "Track with sched_switch" Missing sched_switch events # The issue is caused by incorrect handling of timestamp comparisons. The comparison result, a signed 64-bit value, was being directly cast to an int, leading to incorrect sorting for sched events. The case does not fail everytime, usually I can trigger the failure after run 20 ~ 30 times: # while true; do perf test "Track with sched_switch"; done 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : FAILED! 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : FAILED! 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok 106: Track with sched_switch : Ok I used cross compiler to build Perf tool on my host machine and tested on Debian / Juno board. Generally, I think this issue is not very specific to GCC versions. As both internal CI and my local env can reproduce the issue. My Host Build compiler: # aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc --version aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) 13.3.0 Juno Board: # lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Release: 12 Codename: bookworm Fix this by explicitly returning 0, 1, or -1 based on whether the result is zero, positive, or negative. Fixes: d44bc558297222d9 ("perf tests: Add a test for tracking with sched_switch") Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Leo Yan Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: James Clark Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250331172759.115604-1-leo.yan@arm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf sample: Make user_regs and intr_regs optional

2025-02-13T04:06:11+00:00

The struct dump_regs contains 512 bytes of cache_regs, meaning the two values in perf_sample contribute 1088 bytes of its total 1384 bytes size. Initializing this much memory has a cost reported by Tavian Barnes as about 2.5% when running `perf script --itrace=i0`: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d841b97b3ad2ca8bcab07e4293375fb7c32dfce7.1736618095.git.tavianator@tavianator.com/ Adrian Hunter replied that the zero initialization was necessary and couldn't simply be removed. This patch aims to strike a middle ground of still zeroing the perf_sample, but removing 79% of its size by make user_regs and intr_regs optional pointers to zalloc-ed memory. To support the allocation accessors are created for user_regs and intr_regs. To support correct cleanup perf_sample__init and perf_sample__exit functions are created and added throughout the code base. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250113194345.1537821-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tests switch-tracking: Set this test to run exclusively

2024-12-13T21:30:48+00:00

This test was failing when run with the default 'perf test' mode, which is to run multiple regression tests in parallel. Since it checks system_wide mode, set it to run in exclusive mode. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Ravi Bangoria Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z1yPYqYYs_isO1PJ@x1 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

libperf cpumap: Replace usage of perf_cpu_map__new(NULL) with perf_cpu_map__new_online_cpus()

2023-12-12T17:55:13+00:00

Passing NULL to perf_cpu_map__new() performs perf_cpu_map__new_online_cpus(), just directly call perf_cpu_map__new_online_cpus() to be more intention revealing. Reviewed-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andrew Jones Cc: André Almeida Cc: Athira Jajeev Cc: Atish Patra Cc: Changbin Du Cc: Darren Hart Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: K Prateek Nayak Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Paran Lee Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Sandipan Das Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Yang Li Cc: Yanteng Si Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231129060211.1890454-5-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf pmus: Remove perf_pmus__has_hybrid

2023-05-27T12:42:38+00:00

perf_pmus__has_hybrid was used to detect when there was >1 core PMU, this can be achieved with perf_pmus__num_core_pmus that doesn't depend upon is_pmu_hybrid and PMU name comparisons. When modifying the function calls take the opportunity to improve comments, enable/simplify tests that were previously failing for hybrid but now pass and to simplify generic code. Reviewed-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ali Saidi Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jing Zhang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Kang Minchul Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Ming Wang Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Sandipan Das Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Xing Zhengjun Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230527072210.2900565-34-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf pmu: Separate pmu and pmus

2023-05-27T12:41:39+00:00

Separate and hide the pmus list in pmus.[ch]. Move pmus functionality out of pmu.[ch] into pmus.[ch] renaming pmus functions which were prefixed perf_pmu__ to perf_pmus__. Reviewed-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ali Saidi Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jing Zhang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Kang Minchul Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Ming Wang Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Sandipan Das Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Xing Zhengjun Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230527072210.2900565-28-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Move 'struct perf_sample' to a separate header file to disentangle headers

2022-10-31T14:06:41+00:00

Some places were including event.h just to get 'struct perf_sample', move it to a separate place so that we speed up a bit the build. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add evlist__add_sched_switch()

2022-10-06T11:03:53+00:00

Add a help to create a system-wide sched_switch event. One merit is that it sets the system-wide bit before adding it to evlist so that the libperf can handle the cpu and thread maps correctly. Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221003204647.1481128-5-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo