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

perf test workload: Add thread count argument to thloop

2025-10-28T23:59:58+00:00

Allow the number of threads for the thloop workload to be increased beyond the normal 2. Add error checking to the parsed time and thread count values. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

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: Name the noploop process

2025-07-01T22:37:22+00:00

Name the noploop process "perf-noploop" so that tests can easily check for its existence. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250628012302.1242532-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tests: Fix data symbol test with LTO builds

2025-03-07T22:07:07+00:00

With LTO builds, although regular builds could also see this as all the code is in one file, the datasym workload can realize the buf1.reserved data is never accessed. The compiler moves the variable to bss and only keeps the data1 and data2 parts as separate variables. This causes the symbol check to fail in the test. Make the variable volatile to disable the more aggressive optimization. Rename the variable to make which buf1 in perf is being referred to. Before: $ perf test -vv "data symbol" 126: Test data symbol: --- start --- test child forked, pid 299808 perf does not have symbol 'buf1' perf is missing symbols - skipping test ---- end(-2) ---- 126: Test data symbol : Skip $ nm perf|grep buf1 0000000000a5fa40 b buf1.0 0000000000a5fa48 b buf1.1 After: $ nm perf|grep buf1 0000000000a53a00 d buf1 $ perf test -vv "data symbol"126: Test data symbol: --- start --- test child forked, pid 302166 a53a00-a53a39 l buf1 perf does have symbol 'buf1' Recording workload... Waiting for "perf record has started" message OK Cleaning up files... ---- end(0) ---- 126: Test data symbol : Ok Fixes: 3dfc01fe9d12 ("perf test: Add 'datasym' test workload") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226230109.314580-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf test: Add timeout to datasym workload

2025-03-05T17:17:01+00:00

Unlike others it has an infinite loop that make it annoying to call. Make it finish after 1 second and handle command-line argument to change the setting. Reviewed-by: Leo Yan Tested-by: Thomas Richter Tested-by: Thomas Falcon Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Leo Yan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304022837.1877845-6-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf test: Remove duplicate word

2024-12-12T18:55:16+00:00

- Remove duplicate word, 'the'. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Günther Noack Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mickaël Salaün Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ruffalo Lavoisier Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241120043503.80530-1-RuffaloLavoisier@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf test: Add landlock workload

2024-07-31T19:12:46+00:00

We'll use it to add a regression test for the BTF augmentation of enum arguments for tracepoints in 'perf trace': root@x1:~# perf trace -e landlock_add_rule perf test -w landlock 0.000 ( 0.009 ms): perf/747160 landlock_add_rule(ruleset_fd: 11, rule_type: LANDLOCK_RULE_PATH_BENEATH, rule_attr: 0x7ffd8e258594, flags: 45) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) 0.011 ( 0.002 ms): perf/747160 landlock_add_rule(ruleset_fd: 11, rule_type: LANDLOCK_RULE_NET_PORT, rule_attr: 0x7ffd8e2585a0, flags: 45) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) root@x1:~# Committer notes: It was agreed on the discussion (see Link below) to shorten then name of the workload from 'landlock_add_rule' to 'landlock', and I moved it to a separate patch. Also, to address a build failure from Namhyung, I stopped loading linux/landlock.h and instead added the used defines, enums and types to make this build in older systems. All we want is to emit the syscall and intercept it. Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Howard Chu Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAH0uvohaypdTV6Z7O5QSK+va_qnhZ6BP6oSJ89s1c1E0CjgxDA@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624181345.124764-1-howardchu95@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624181345.124764-6-howardchu95@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf test: Make tests its own library

2024-06-26T18:07:11+00:00

Make the tests code its own library. This is done to avoid compiling code twice, once for the perf tool and once for the perf python module. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: James Clark Cc: Suzuki K Poulose Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Nick Terrell Cc: Gary Guo Cc: Alex Gaynor Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho Cc: Ze Gao Cc: Alice Ryhl Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Yicong Yang Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: John Garry Cc: Benno Lossin Cc: Björn Roy Baron Cc: Andreas Hindborg Cc: Paul Walmsley Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240625214117.953777-5-irogers@google.com

perf test: Make test_arm_callgraph_fp.sh more robust

2024-06-24T21:42:59+00:00

The 2 second sleep can cause the test to fail on very slow network file systems because Perf ends up being killed before it finishes starting up. Fix it by making the leafloop workload end after a fixed time like the other workloads so there is no need to kill it after 2 seconds. Also remove the 1 second start sampling delay because it is similarly fragile. Instead, search through all samples for a matching one, rather than just checking the first sample and hoping it's in the right place. Fixes: cd6382d82752 ("perf test arm64: Test unwinding using fame-pointer (fp) mode") Signed-off-by: James Clark Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: German Gomez Cc: Spoorthy S Cc: Kajol Jain Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240612140316.3006660-1-james.clark@arm.com

perf tests: Make "test data symbol" more robust on Neoverse N1

2024-04-12T15:02:05+00:00

To prevent anyone from seeing a test failure appear as a regression and thinking that it was caused by their code change, insert some noise into the loop which makes it immune to sampling bias issues (errata 1694299). The "test data symbol" test can fail with any unrelated change that shifts the loop into an unfortunate position in the Perf binary which is almost impossible to debug as the root cause of the test failure. Ultimately it's caused by the referenced errata. Fixes: 60abedb8aa902b06 ("perf test: Introduce script for data symbol testing") Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: James Clark Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Spoorthy S Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240410103458.813656-2-james.clark@arm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo