kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/tests/switch-tracking.c, branch v7.1-rc5

perf sample: Make sure perf_sample__init/exit are used

2026-04-06T06:12:15+00:00

The deferred stack trace code wasn't using perf_sample__init/exit. Add the deferred stack trace clean up to perf_sample__exit which requires proper NULL initialization in perf_sample__init. Make the perf_sample__exit robust to being called more than once by using zfree. Make the error paths in evsel__parse_sample exit the sample. Add a merged_callchain boolean to capture that callchain is allocated, deferred_callchain doen't suffice for this. Pack the struct variables to avoid padding bytes for this. Similiarly powerpc_vpadtl_sample wasn't using perf_sample__init/exit, use it for consistency and potential issues with uninitialized variables. Similarly guest_session__inject_events in builtin-inject wasn't using perf_sample_init/exit. The lifetime management for fetched events is somewhat complex there, but when an event is fetched the sample should be initialized and needs exiting on error. The sample may be left in place so that future injects have access to it. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

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