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Michael Jeanson
536e81f074 perf data ctf: replace libbabeltrace with babeltrace2-ctf-writer
The 1.x branch of Babeltrace has been superseded by 2.x in 2020 and has
been unmaintained since 2022, efforts have started to remove it from
popular distributions.

Babeltrace 2.x offers a very similar 'ctf-writer' library that can be used
with minimal changes for the '--to-ctf' feature and has been packaged
since Debian 11 and Fedora 32.

This patch replaces the 'libbabeltrace' build feature with
'babeltrace2-ctf-writer' using pkgconfig detection, adjusts the naming of
the public headers and applies minor API cleanups.

There is no changes to the output ctf traces, the ctf-writer API still
implements version 1.8 of the CTF specification that can be read by
either Babeltrace 1 / 2 or any CTF compliant reader.

Also remove some ifdefs in the cli option parsing to allow printing the
helpful error message with '--to-ctf' when built without babeltrace2.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Derek Foreman <derek.foreman@collabora.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 17:34:52 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
b72ab69175 perf lock contention: Allow 'mmap_lock' in -L/--lock-filter
The -L/--lock-filter option is to specify target locks by name or
address.  It's basically for global locks where name or address is known
and fixed.  But 'mmap_lock' is a per-process lock so it cannot be used
for the -L option.

  $ sudo perf lock con -ab -L mmap_lock
  ignore unknown symbol: mmap_lock
  libbpf: map 'addr_filter': failed to create: -EINVAL
  libbpf: failed to load BPF skeleton 'lock_contention_bpf': -EINVAL
  Failed to load lock-contention BPF skeleton
  lock contention BPF setup failed

However, it's still a common source of contention especially in a large
process so we want to use it for the -L/--lock-filter option.  As there
is check_lock_type() to check mmap_lock at runtime, let's used it to
filter mmap_locks as a special case.

Of course, this only works with -b/--use-bpf option.

  $ sudo perf lock con -b -L mmap_lock -- perf bench mem mmap -f demand -t 2
  # Running 'mem/mmap' benchmark:
  # function 'demand' (Demand loaded mmap())
  # Copying 1MB bytes ...

         2.679184 GB/sec/thread	( +-   1.78% )
   contended   total wait     max wait     avg wait         type   caller

           1     15.22 us     15.22 us     15.22 us      rwsem:W   __vm_munmap+0x7e
           1      7.72 us      7.72 us      7.72 us      rwsem:R   lock_mm_and_find_vma+0x97

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suchit Karunakaran <suchitkarunakaran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 17:34:52 -03:00
Ian Rogers
a77ecea7ce perf test: Remove /usr/bin/cc dependency from Intel PT shell test
In test_intel_pt.sh, the test script compiled two external C programs at
runtime using /usr/bin/cc (a thread loop workload and a JIT self-
modifying workload). Relying on external C compilers inside shell tests
frequently causes failures in continuous integration environments.

Create a built-in 'jitdump' workload and switch test_intel_pt.sh to use
'perf test -w thloop' and 'perf test -w jitdump'. Also add multi-
architecture compatibility without external C compiler dependencies, the
workload instruction arrays dynamically encode CHK_BYTE into opcodes
across x86, ARM32, ARM64, RISC-V, PowerPC, MIPS, LoongArch, and s390x.

Some minor include fixes for util/jitdump.h.

Assisted-by: Gemini-CLI:Google Gemini 3
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 11:41:46 -03:00
Ian Rogers
0dd6025171 perf test: Add shell test to validate JUnit XML reporting output
Add a shell test script (test_test_junit_output.sh) to execute perf test
with the -j/--junit option and validate that the generated test report
complies perfectly with standard XML formatting using Python's
ElementTree XML parser.

Assisted-by: Gemini-CLI:Google Gemini 3
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 11:41:33 -03:00
Ian Rogers
e2c545737b perf test: Add -j/--junit option for JUnit XML test reports
Add a -j/--junit command line option to generate standard JUnit XML
format test reports. The generated file defaults to 'test.xml' if no
filename is specified, but allows users to override the path (e.g.
-jmytest.xml).

The XML report captures individual test suite and subtest execution
latency, alongside XML-escaped failure logs and skip reasons, while
preserving the full multi-process concurrency speed of parallel test
execution.

Assisted-by: Gemini-CLI:Google Gemini 3
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260602174129.3192312-15-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 11:41:11 -03:00
Ian Rogers
a540f031bb perf test: Split monolithic 'util' test suite into sub-tests
Refactor the monolithic 'util' test suite into distinct 'String
replacement' and 'BLAKE2s hash' sub-tests using the struct test_case
framework. This improves test reporting granularity and is used in a
subsequent perf test for JUnit XML test result reporting.

Assisted-by: Gemini-CLI:Google Gemini 3
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 11:40:51 -03:00
Ian Rogers
85fe2fdb27 perf test: Skip shebang and SPDX comments in shell test descriptions
When extracting shell test descriptions in tests-scripts.c, the parser
skipped the first line assuming it was the shebang (#!/bin/sh) and then
read the first comment line on line 2 as the test description.

However, checkpatch.pl expects shell scripts to declare their SPDX
license identifier on line 2 (# SPDX-License-Identifier: ...). This
caused the test harness to extract the SPDX license string as the test
description.

Refactor shell_test__description to use io__getline, skipping both
shebang and SPDX comment lines. This allows shell tests to include
standard SPDX headers without breaking test suite description
extraction.

Assisted-by: Gemini-CLI:Google Gemini 3
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 11:40:36 -03:00
Ian Rogers
94ac3ce427 perf test: Fix subtest status alignment for multi-digit indexes
When running perf test, the status column (: Ok) became misaligned when
subtest indexes reached 2 or 3 digits (e.g. 9.100 vs 9.9 vs 10.1). This
occurred because the subtest description field width (subw) was
statically fixed to width - 2, assuming all subtest index prefixes were
exactly 7 characters wide.

Dynamically calculate subw based on the exact character length of the
test suite and subtest index prefix. This ensures the status column is
perfectly aligned vertically across all test outputs regardless of
subtest index digit count.

Assisted-by: Gemini-CLI:Google Gemini 3
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 11:40:13 -03:00
Ian Rogers
33f20342ba perf test: Add summary reporting
Currently, when running test suites (perf test), users must scroll
through hundreds of lines of console output to manually tally the number
of passed, skipped, or failed test cases.

Introduce an automated, global execution summary printed at the absolute
tail of the test run:

1. Track counts mid-flight inside the print_test_result() accumulator,
   clearly separating pass counts into standalone main tests vs.
   individual subtests (where num_test_cases > 1).

2. Accumulate the precise descriptions of all failed test cases
   directly into a global string buffer, formatted with their suite
   indices (e.g., 3.1: Parse event definition strings) for effortless
   cross-referencing.

3. Define a summary printer function print_tests_summary() that
   emits a colored outline of the final pass, skip, and fail totals,
   followed by the explicit list of failed tests.

4. Invoke the summary printer right before freeing the test array at
   the absolute tail of __cmd_test(), guaranteeing that the summary is
   successfully printed even if an internal emergency signal cleanup
   occurs or if the user interrupts the run early.

Example output:
```
$ sudo perf test -v
  1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms                                 : Skip
  2: Detect openat syscall event                                     : Ok
  3: Detect openat syscall event on all cpus                         : Ok
...
163: perf trace summary                                              : Ok

=== Test Summary ===
Passed main tests : 123
Passed subtests   : 145
Skipped tests     : 22
Failed tests      : 6
List of failed tests:
   92: perf kvm tests
   95: kernel lock contention analysis test
  120: perf metrics value validation
  124: Check branch stack sampling
  143: perftool-testsuite_probe
  158: test Intel TPEBS counting mode
```

Assisted-by: Gemini-CLI:Google Gemini 3
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 11:37:57 -03:00
Ian Rogers
b5a4a361f5 perf test: Show snippet failure output for verbose=1
Currently, when running tests in verbose mode (-v), if a test case
fails, the entire raw standard error buffer is dumped to stderr via
fprintf(stderr, "%s", child->err_output.buf). For tests that generate
massive amounts of debugging or logging output before dying, this
results in multi-page terminal dumps where highly critical diagnostic
keywords (error, fail, segv) are easily lost.

Implement a smart, bounded snippet string processor to improve
failure triaging:

1. Introduce a configurable quota limit static unsigned int
   failure_snippet_lines = 10; accessible via a new command-line option
   --failure-snippet-lines <N>.

2. Parse the raw error buffer dynamically into lines and run a
   three-pass extraction algorithm:
   - Pass 0: Always select the very first line of the log as an initial
     outline marker.
   - Pass 1: Scan forward from the top of the log to pick up to N lines
     that contain case-insensitive failure keywords (error, fail,
     segv, abort) to isolate the root cause. Automatically pull in
     the immediate subsequent line as highly-prioritized context.
     Allow adjacent matching lines to overlap without dropping context
     by evaluating keywords for all lines (e.g. when "Failed to
     report" is followed by "Error:").
   - Pass 2: If quota remains, scan backward from the absolute tail of
     the log to capture trailing crash or abort context.

3. Output the selected lines in their original chronological order,
   inserting a clear ... separator between non-contiguous line jumps.

4. Wrap matched failure keywords dynamically in bold red
   (PERF_COLOR_RED) to immediately draw the eye to failures.

5. Invoke the smart processor purely when verbose == 1 && ret ==
   TEST_FAIL in both finish_test and finish_tests_parallel, leaving
   raw full-output dumping completely untouched when running highly
   verbose (-vv).

Assisted-by: Gemini-CLI:Google Gemini 3
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 11:37:24 -03:00
Ian Rogers
f35450738e perf test: Refactor parallel poll loop to drain all pipes simultaneously
When running tests in parallel with verbose output (-v), child processes
write to pipes. If a test produces significant output (e.g. Granite
Rapids metric parsing printing hundreds of lines), it fills the 64KB
pipe buffer and blocks.

Previously, the parent harness (finish_test) only polled the pipe of the
current test waiting to be printed. Other children blocked indefinitely
until the parent reached them, severely sequentializing execution.

Address this by implementing finish_tests_parallel() to poll and drain
output pipes from all running children simultaneously into per-child
buffers, employing safe strbuf_addstr string operations alongside
thorough variable orderings for strict ISO C90 compliance. Reaping
occurs out of order as children finish, while final result printing
remains strictly in order.

This drops parallel verbose execution time for the PMU events suite from
~35 seconds down to ~5.9 seconds.

Assisted-by: Gemini-CLI:Google Gemini 3
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 11:37:02 -03:00
Ian Rogers
8ae26f6ae7 perf test pmu-events: A sub-test per metric table
Break apart the slow "Parsing of PMU event table metrics" tests into one
pair of tests (real and fake PMU) per metric table found, storing the
specific table pointer in priv data. Implement setup_pmu_events_suite()
to dynamically allocate and populate these test cases. Split static
parser tests out into a separate test__parsing_fake_static() test case.
Update test__parsing() and test__parsing_fake() to retrieve the specific
table from priv data and test only that table, maintaining fallback
compatibility if priv is NULL.

Running these individual tests in parallel significantly reduces overall
test execution time.

Assisted-by: Gemini-CLI:Google Gemini 3
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 11:36:36 -03:00
Ian Rogers
8c8d61c38d perf test: Support dynamic test suites with setup callback and private data
Add void *priv to struct test_case to allow passing per-test context.
Add int (*setup)(struct test_suite *) to struct test_suite to allow
dynamic generation of test cases. Update build_suites() to invoke the
setup callback for each suite if present, ensuring dynamic cases are
available before listing or running.

Assisted-by: Gemini-CLI:Google Gemini 3
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 11:36:21 -03:00
Ian Rogers
744af59871 perf test: Drain pipe after child finishes to avoid losing output
When running tests in parallel, the parent process reads output from the
child's pipe. However, it might exit the loop as soon as the child is
detected as finished, potentially missing data that arrived in the pipe
just after the last poll or before the loop terminated.

Address this by draining the pipe after the main loop in finish_test.

Assisted-by: Gemini-CLI:Google Gemini 3
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-04 11:36:09 -03:00
Ian Rogers
979e87ab1f perf symbol: Add setters for bitfields sharing a byte to avoid concurrent update issues
A problem with putting bitfields into struct symbol is that other bits in
the symbol could be updated concurrently and only one update to the
underlying storage unit happen, leading to lost updates.

To avoid this, use atomics to atomically read or set part of 16-bits
of flags in the symbol. Add accessors to simplify this.

The idle value has 3 values in preparation for a later change that
will lazily update it.

Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Honglei Wang <jameshongleiwang@126.com>
Cc: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-03 16:53:45 -03:00
Ian Rogers
4ccbc91df9 perf tests topology: Switch env->arch use to env->e_machine
Some arch string comparisons weren't normalized. Avoid potential
issues with normalized names vs uname values by swtiching to using the
e_machine.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Honglei Wang <jameshongleiwang@126.com>
Cc: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-03 16:45:04 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
078fc0430b perf test: Add file offset diagnostic test for corrupted perf.data
Add a shell test that verifies the file_offset diagnostic messages
work correctly when perf encounters corrupted events.

The test corrupts a MMAP2 event's size field in a recorded perf.data
file, then checks that perf report produces warning messages that
include both the file offset (e.g. "at offset 0x2738:") and the
event type name with numeric id (e.g. "MMAP2 (10)").

This exercises the diagnostic improvements from the file_offset
series, which retrofitted all skip/stop/error messages to include
the position and type of the problematic event.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-06-03 16:31:04 -03:00
James Clark
83eff458a6 perf arm-spe: Don't warn about the discard bit if it doesn't exist
Opening an SPE event shows a warning that doesn't concern the user:

  $ perf record -e arm_spe
  Unknown/empty format name: discard

Perf only wants to know if the discard bit is set for configuring the
event, not in response to anything the user has done. Fix it by adding
another helper that returns if a config bit exists without warning.

We should probably keep the warning in evsel__get_config_val() to avoid
having every caller having to do it, and most format bits should never
be missing.

Add a test for the new helper. Rename the parent test function to be
more generic rather than adding a new one as it requires a lot of
boilerplate.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-29 21:20:50 -03:00
James Clark
6f31bb737e perf test: Make leafloop workload immune to compiler options
Since the leafloop test program was moved into the main Perf binary as a
workload, it inherited the same compiler options as Perf. In this case
the -fstack-protector option broke the assumption that simple leaf
frames don't have a stack frame on Arm. This causes
test_arm_callgraph_fp.sh to pass even if the stack isn't augmented with
the link register, making the test useless.

Fix it by rewriting the leaf function in assembly seeing as it's so
simple. Adding -fno-stack-protector would also work, but wouldn't be
robust against other future compiler option additions.

The local variables and 'a' variable were never needed so remove them to
simplify.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Assisted-by: GitHub-Copilot:GPT-5.5
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-29 11:48:48 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
f864466690 perf test: Add truncated perf.data robustness test
Add a shell test that verifies perf report handles truncated perf.data
files gracefully — exiting with an error code rather than crashing with
SIGSEGV or SIGABRT.

The test records a simple workload, then truncates the resulting
perf.data at four offsets that exercise different parsing stages:

  8 bytes   — file header magic only
  64 bytes  — partial file header (attr section incomplete)
  256 bytes — into the first events (partial event headers)
  75% size  — mid-stream truncation (partial event data)

For each truncation, perf report is run and the exit code is checked:

- Exit code 0 (success) fails the test — a truncated file should
  never parse without error.

- Crash signals are detected portably via kill -l, which maps the
  signal number to a name on the running system.  This handles
  architectures where signal numbers differ (e.g. SIGBUS is 7 on
  x86/ARM but 10 on MIPS/SPARC).  Core-dump and fatal signals
  (KILL, ILL, ABRT, BUS, FPE, SEGV, TRAP, SYS) fail the test.

- Higher exit codes (200+) are perf's own negative-errno returns
  (e.g. -EINVAL = 234) and are expected.

This exercises the bounds checking, minimum-size validation, and error
propagation added by the preceding patches in this series.

Testing it:

  root@number:~# perf test truncat
   84: Test that perf report handles truncated perf.data gracefully (no crash, no segfault — clean error exit).: Ok
  root@number:~# perf test -vv truncat
   84: Test that perf report handles truncated perf.data gracefully (no crash, no segfault — clean error exit).:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 62890
  ---- end(0) ----
   84: Test that perf report handles truncated perf.data gracefully (no crash, no segfault — clean error exit).: Ok
  root@number:~#

Changes in v2:
- Add SIGKILL to the list of fatal signals so OOM kills from
  resource exhaustion bugs are detected (Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org)

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6-1m
[ Fixed the SPDX on the line where 'perf test' expects the test description, reviewed by Ian Rogers ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-29 11:44:35 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
6a38b515a5 perf session: Validate HEADER_ATTR attr.size before swapping
Harden PERF_RECORD_HEADER_ATTR handling against crafted perf.data:

- Validate attr.size: must be >= PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER0, a multiple
  of sizeof(u64), and fit within the event payload.
- Copy only min(attr.size, sizeof(struct perf_event_attr)) bytes
  into a local attr, zeroing the rest so legacy files don't leak
  adjacent event data into new fields.
- Keep the original attr.size so perf_event__synthesize_attr()
  uses it for both allocation and ID-array placement.

Fix perf_event__synthesize_attr() to use attr->size (not the
compiled sizeof) for event allocation and layout, so perf inject
correctly re-synthesizes attrs from files recorded by a different
perf version.  Without this, the ID array destination pointer
(computed via perf_record_header_attr_id()) would be inconsistent
with the allocation when attr->size differs from sizeof.

Also fix the parse-no-sample-id-all test to set attr.size, which
is now validated, and improve error handling in read_attr() for
short reads and invalid attr sizes.

Handle ABI0 pipe/inject events where attr.size is 0: use a local
attr_size variable set to PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER0 for both the bounded
copy and ID array position, instead of writing back to the event.
Native-endian files may be MAP_SHARED (read-only mmap), so writing
to the event buffer would SIGSEGV.  The swap path handles ABI0 in
perf_event__attr_swap() which writes to the MAP_PRIVATE copy.

header.size alignment is now validated centrally in
perf_session__process_event() (see "Add minimum event size and
alignment validation").

Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org # Running on a local machine
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6-1m
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-29 11:44:32 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
1f9d9b62cf perf tests hwmon_pmu: Use PRIu64 + (uint64_t) cast for a __u64 field to work more widely
While testing perf with an updated Debian experimental cross compiler
(gcc version 14.2.0 (Debian 14.2.0-13)) this started failing:

  In file included from tests/hwmon_pmu.c:12:
  tests/hwmon_pmu.c: In function 'do_test':
  tests/hwmon_pmu.c:199:34: error: format '%lld' expects argument of type 'long long int', but argument 7 has type '__u64' {aka 'long unsigned int'} [-Werror=format=]
    199 |                         pr_debug("FAILED %s:%d Unexpected config for '%s', %lld != %ld\n",
        |                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  /git/perf-7.1.0-rc5/tools/perf/util/debug.h:20:21: note: in definition of macro 'pr_fmt'
     20 | #define pr_fmt(fmt) fmt
        |                     ^~~
  tests/hwmon_pmu.c:199:25: note: in expansion of macro 'pr_debug'
    199 |                         pr_debug("FAILED %s:%d Unexpected config for '%s', %lld != %ld\n",
        |                         ^~~~~~~~
  tests/hwmon_pmu.c:199:79: note: format string is defined here
    199 |                         pr_debug("FAILED %s:%d Unexpected config for '%s', %lld != %ld\n",
        |                                                                            ~~~^
        |                                                                               |
        |                                                                               long long int
        |                                                                            %ld
    LD      /tmp/build/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/perf-util-in.o

The usual make that %lld a PRIu64 (since arg7 is
evsel->core.attr.config, which is a __u64) but then on Fedora 44 (gcc
version 16.1.1 20260515 (Red Hat 16.1.1-2)) it ends up with:

  In file included from tests/hwmon_pmu.c:13:
  tests/hwmon_pmu.c: In function ‘do_test’:
  tests/hwmon_pmu.c:200:34: error: format ‘%lu’ expects argument of type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 7 has type ‘__u64’ {aka ‘long long unsigned int’} [-Werror=format=]
    200 |                         pr_debug("FAILED %s:%d Unexpected config for '%s', %" PRIu64 " != %ld\n",
        |                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next2/tools/perf/util/debug.h:20:21: note: in definition of macro ‘pr_fmt’
     20 | #define pr_fmt(fmt) fmt
        |                     ^~~
  tests/hwmon_pmu.c:200:25: note: in expansion of macro ‘pr_debug’
    200 |                         pr_debug("FAILED %s:%d Unexpected config for '%s', %" PRIu64 " != %ld\n",
        |                         ^~~~~~~~
  cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

So the way to satisfy both compilers is to also add a (u64) cast to
arg7.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-28 18:31:50 -03:00
Ian Rogers
7b1aa97e97 perf tests: Sort includes and add missed explicit dependencies
Fix missing #includes found while cleaning the evsel/evlist header
files. Sort the remaining header files for consistency with the rest
of the code.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alice Rogers <alice.mei.rogers@gmail.com>
Cc: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-27 08:20:31 -03:00
Ian Rogers
bd2a5be1fe perf test: Add stat metrics --for-each-cgroup test
Add a new shell test `stat_metrics_cgrp.sh` to verify metric reporting
with `--for-each-cgroup`, both with and without `--bpf-counters`.

The test:
- Checks if system-wide monitoring is supported (skips if not).
- Finds cgroups to test.
- Runs `perf stat` with `insn_per_cycle` metric and verifies that the
  metric is reported for each cgroup.
- Dynamically pairs and verifies instructions and cycles counts to
  avoid false failures on idle cgroups.
- Tests both standard mode and BPF counters mode (if supported).

Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3-flash
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Svilen Kanev <skanev@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-25 16:47:14 -03:00
Ian Rogers
f83deb0580 perf tests: Add test for stat delay option with duration_time
Add a new test case `test_stat_delay` to `stat.sh` to verify that
`duration_time` correctly excludes the delay period when using the
delay option (-D).

The test runs `perf stat -D 1000 -e duration_time sleep 2` and
verifies that `duration_time` is ~1s (excluding the 1s delay), not
~2s.

Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3-flash
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Francesco Nigro <nigro.fra@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-22 21:39:28 -03:00
Ravi Bangoria
540dc628ab perf test ibs: Skip privilege test on Zen6 and newer platforms
IBS on pre-Zen6 platforms lacked a hardware privilege filter, so the
kernel enabled swfilt=1. Zen6 and newer platforms provides privilege
filtering via the RIP[63] bit, making swfilt redundant. Skip the perf
unit test that assumes IBS has no hardware-assisted privilege filter
on Zen6 and newer platforms.

swfilt is ignored by kernel on platforms that support RIP[63] bit filter
i.e. all amd-ibs-swfilt.sh tests will test hardware assisted privilege
filter.

Without the patch on Zen6:

  # sudo ./perf test -vv 77
   77: AMD IBS software filtering:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 30813
  check availability of IBS swfilt
  run perf record with modifier and swfilt
  [FAIL] IBS PMU should not accept exclude_kernel
  ---- end(-1) ----
   77: AMD IBS software filtering                            : FAILED!

With the patch:

  # ./perf test -vv 77
   77: AMD IBS software filtering:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 30903
  check availability of IBS swfilt
  run perf record with modifier and swfilt
  [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB /dev/null ]
  [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB /dev/null ]
  [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB /dev/null ]
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB /dev/null ]
  check number of samples with swfilt
  [ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.051 MB - ]
  [ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.063 MB - ]
  ---- end(0) ----
   77: AMD IBS software filtering                            : Ok

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth Narayan <ananth.narayan@amd.com>
Cc: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-22 21:31:16 -03:00
Ian Rogers
9f116f4b81 perf tests: Add test for uncore event sorting
Add a test for uncore event sorting matching multiple PMUs.

Uncore PMUs may have a common prefix, like the PMUs
uncore_imc_free_running_0 and uncore_imc_free_running_1 have a prefix of
uncore_imc_free_running.

Parsing an event group like "{data_read,data_write}" for those PMUs
should result with two groups:

  "{uncore_imc_free_running_0/data_read/,uncore_imc_free_running_0/data_write/},
   {uncore_imc_free_running_1/data_read/,uncore_imc_free_running_1/data_write/}"

which means the evsels need resorting as when initially parsed the
evsels are ordered with mixed PMUs:

  "{uncore_imc_free_running_0/data_read/,uncore_imc_free_running_1/data_read/,
  uncore_imc_free_running_0/data_write/,uncore_imc_free_running_1/data_write/}".

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Cc: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-20 18:23:55 -03:00
Ian Rogers
675073ddf8 perf evlist: Try to avoid computing evsel from sample
As struct perf_sample now directly contains its own resolved evsel pointer,
passing the evsel separately is redundant and clutters the interface.

Remove the redundant evsel parameter from evlist-specific handlers and
structures, ensuring the tool always directly accesses the evsel bound to the
sample. This simplifies the API signatures and eliminates the risk of passing
an inconsistent evsel.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Cc: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Blake Jones <blakejones@google.com>
Cc: Chen Ni <nichen@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Cc: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Derek Foreman <derek.foreman@collabora.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Hrishikesh Suresh <hrishikesh123s@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski <krzysztof.m.lopatowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quan Zhou <zhouquan@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>
Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Cc: Tianyou Li <tianyou.li@intel.com>
Cc: Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Cc: tanze <tanze@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-20 16:39:40 -03:00
Ian Rogers
7e0e6ac66c perf hist: Remove evsel from struct hist_entry_iter
As struct perf_sample now directly contains its own resolved evsel pointer,
passing the evsel separately is redundant and clutters the interface.

Remove the redundant evsel parameter from hist-specific handlers and
structures, ensuring the tool always directly accesses the evsel bound to the
sample. This simplifies the API signatures and eliminates the risk of passing
an inconsistent evsel.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Cc: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Blake Jones <blakejones@google.com>
Cc: Chen Ni <nichen@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Cc: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Derek Foreman <derek.foreman@collabora.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Hrishikesh Suresh <hrishikesh123s@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski <krzysztof.m.lopatowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quan Zhou <zhouquan@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>
Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Cc: Tianyou Li <tianyou.li@intel.com>
Cc: Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Cc: tanze <tanze@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-20 16:39:36 -03:00
Ian Rogers
fd7dd303c4 perf evsel: Refactor evsel tracepoint sample accessors perf_sample
The evsel argument to evsel__intval, evsel__rawptr, and similar
functions, is unnecessary as it can be read from the sample. Remove
the evsel and rename the function to match that the data is coming
from the sample.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Cc: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Blake Jones <blakejones@google.com>
Cc: Chen Ni <nichen@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Cc: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Derek Foreman <derek.foreman@collabora.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Hrishikesh Suresh <hrishikesh123s@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Łopatowski <krzysztof.m.lopatowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quan Zhou <zhouquan@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>
Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Cc: Tianyou Li <tianyou.li@intel.com>
Cc: Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Cc: tanze <tanze@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-20 16:35:59 -03:00
Ian Rogers
059e9100d8 perf event: Fix size of synthesized sample with branch stacks
Synthesizing branch stacks for Intel-PT highlighted an issue where
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX was assumed to always be set in the
perf_event_attr branch_sample_type. This caused an incorrect size
calculation.

Fix the writing of the nr and hw_idx values during sample event
synthesis by passing the branch_sample_type into the sample size
and synthesis functions. Also update hardware tracers (Intel PT,
ARM SPE, CS-ETM) to retrieve and pass their branch_sample_type
dynamically to prevent payload misalignment.

Fixes: d3f85437ad ("perf evsel: Support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX")
Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-20 16:11:30 -03:00
Leo Yan
2e2ba7d1ea perf pmu: Skip test on Arm64 when #slots is zero
Some Arm64 PMUs expose 'caps/slots' as 0 when the slot count is not
implemented, tool_pmu__read_event() currently returns false for this,
so metrics that reference #slots are reported as syntax error.

Since the commit 3a61fd866e ("perf expr: Return -EINVAL for syntax
error in expr__find_ids()"), these syntax errors are populated as
failures and make the PMU metric test fail:

    9.3: Parsing of PMU event table metrics:
    --- start ---
    ...

    Found metric 'backend_bound'
    metric expr 100 * (stall_slot_backend / (#slots * cpu_cycles)) for backend_bound
    parsing metric: 100 * (stall_slot_backend / (#slots * cpu_cycles))
    Failure to read '#slots'
    literal: #slots = nan
    syntax error
    Fail to parse metric or group `backend_bound'

    ...
    ---- end(-1) ----
    9.3: Parsing of PMU event table metrics    : FAILED!

This commit introduces a new function is_expected_broken_metric() to
identify broken metrics, and treats metrics containing "#slots" as
expected broken when #slots == 0 on Arm64 platforms.

Fixes: 3a61fd866e ("perf expr: Return -EINVAL for syntax error in expr__find_ids()")
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-15 16:19:51 -03:00
Martin Kaiser
e1c19cd376 perf test: Fix "trace summary" test for musl-based systems
The trace summary test calls /bin/true and filters for open, read and
close events. These events are coming from shared library loads.

On a musl system, the loader and libc may point to the same file. true
needs only libc, no further shared libraries are loaded at startup. The
test fails since no open, read and close events are captured.

  root@host:~# ldd /bin/true
	/lib/ld-musl-riscv64.so.1 (0x3fb8882000)
	libc.so => /lib/ld-musl-riscv64.so.1 (0x3fb8882000)

  root@host:~# file /lib/ld-musl-riscv64.so.1
  /lib/ld-musl-riscv64.so.1: symbolic link to /usr/lib/libc.so

  root@host:~# strace -f /bin/true
  execve("/bin/true", ["/bin/true", ...], ... /* 18 vars */) = 1
  set_tid_address(0x3fa1f7bf70)           = 330
  mprotect(0x2ad6b8e000, 12288, PROT_READ) = 0
  exit_group(0)                           = ?
  +++ exited with 0 +++

Run "cat /dev/null" instead of "true". This creates the required events
regardless of the C library and it works for cat from busybox or from
coreutils.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-11 14:16:38 -03:00
Martin Kaiser
9a4a67dddc perf test: Fix sys_enter_openat event test for musl
The "syscalls:sys_enter_openat event fields" test calls

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY | O_DIRECTORY)

and verifies that the flags of the captured event are matching.
This fails for musl, where the openat syscall wrapper always adds
O_LARGEFILE.

Update the check to allow for additional flags, the access mode flags
must be unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-11 14:16:28 -03:00
Martin Kaiser
a4cbd51862 perf test: Fix nanosleep check in the ftrace test
The perf ftrace test case runs:

  perf ftrace profile --graph-opts depth=5 sleep 0.1

and checks that the output contains a *clock_nanosleep function with a
count of 1.

This fails on a risc-v system that uses musl as its C library. musl's
nanosleep syscall wrapper uses either the nanosleep or the
clock_nanosleep syscall.

Filter for sys_*nanosleep to allow both syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-11 14:15:49 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
8c8f209361 perf build: Remove NO_GTK2 build test
4751bddd3f ("perf tools: Make GTK2 support opt-in") changed GTK2
build to be opt-in.

So NO_GTK2 is meaningless and we need to pass GTK2=1 to enable it.
Let's update the build-test configuration for that.

Also make_no_ui is the same as make_no_slang since NO_GTK2 is no-op.

Let's get rid of it as well.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-05-05 22:07:36 -03:00
Ian Rogers
86d1095fdb perf test: Fixes for check branch stack sampling
When filtering branch stack samples on user events they sample in user
land but may have come from the kernel. Aarch64 avoids leaking the
kernel address for kaslr reasons but other platforms, for now,
don't. Be more permissive in allowing kernel addresses in the source
of user branch stacks.

When filtering branch stack samples on kernel events they sample in
kernel land but may have come from user land. Avoid the target being a
user address but allow the source to be in user land. Aarch64 may not
leak the user land addresses (making them 0) but other platforms
do. As the kernel address sampling implies privelege, just allow this.

Increase the duration of the system call sampling test to make the
likelihood of sampling a system call higher (increased from 1000 to
8000 loops - a number found through experimentation on an Intel
Tigerlake laptop), also make the period of the event a prime number.

Put unneeded perf record output into a temporary file so that the test
output isn't cluttered. More clearly state which test is running and
the pass, fail or skipped result of the test.

These changes make the test on an Intel tigerlake laptop reliably pass
rather than reliably fail.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-13 23:37:59 -07:00
Ian Rogers
c7fe4e5665 perf test: Fix inet_pton probe failure and unroll call graph
When adding a probe for libc's inet_pton, perf probe may create multiple
probe points (e.g., due to inlining or multiple symbol resolutions),
resulting in multiple identical event names being output (e.g.,
`probe_libc:inet_pton_1`).

The script previously used a brittle pipeline (`tail -n +2 | head -n -5`)
and an awk script to extract the event name. When multiple probes were
added, awk would output the event name multiple times, which expanded
to multiple words in bash. This broke the subsequent `perf record` and
`perf probe -d` commands, causing the test to fail with:
`Error: another command except --add is set.`

Fix this by removing the brittle `tail/head` commands and appending
`| head -n 1` to the awk extraction. This ensures that only a single,
unique event name is captured, regardless of how many probe points
are created.

Additionally, the test artificially limited the backtrace size via
`max-stack=4` and did not specify dwarf call graphs for non-s390x
architectures. In newer libc versions where `inet_pton` is nested
deeper or compiled without frame pointers, `perf script` failed to resolve
the backtrace up to `/bin/ping`. Fix this by explicitly collecting
dwarf call-graphs for all architectures and increasing `max-stack` to 8.

Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-13 23:28:14 -07:00
Thomas Richter
4cf1f549bb perf test: Make perf trace BTF general tests exclusive
Running both tests cases 126 128 together causes the first test case
126 to fail:
 # for i in $(seq 3); do ./perf test 'perf trace BTF general tests' \
	'perf trace record and replay'; done
 126: perf trace BTF general tests    : FAILED!
 128: perf trace record and replay    : Ok
 126: perf trace BTF general tests    : FAILED!
 128: perf trace record and replay    : Ok
 126: perf trace BTF general tests    : FAILED!
 128: perf trace record and replay    : Ok
 #

Test case 126 fails because test case 128 runs concurrently as can
be observed using a ps -ef | grep perf output list on a different
window. Both do a perf trace command concurrently.
Make test case 'perf trace BTF general tests' exclusive.

Output after:
 # for i in $(seq 3); do ./perf test 'perf trace BTF general tests' \
	'perf trace record and replay'; done
 127: perf trace BTF general tests                   : Ok
 155: perf trace record and replay                   : Ok
 127: perf trace BTF general tests                   : Ok
 155: perf trace record and replay                   : Ok
 127: perf trace BTF general tests                   : Ok
 155: perf trace record and replay                   : Ok
 #

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-08 21:42:25 -07:00
Ian Rogers
80b549be27 perf data: Clean up use_stdio and structures
use_stdio was associated with struct perf_data and not perf_data_file
meaning there was implicit use of fd rather than fptr that may not be
safe. For example, in perf_data_file__write. Reorganize perf_data_file
to better abstract use_stdio, add kernel-doc and more consistently use
perf_data__ accessors so that use_stdio is better respected.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-08 19:21:17 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
fbfb858552 perf tools: Use calloc() where applicable
Instead of using zalloc(nr_entries * sizeof_entry) that is what calloc()
does.

In some places where linux/zalloc.h isn't needed, remove it, add when
needed and was getting it indirectly.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-08 19:21:05 -07:00
Ian Rogers
046fd8206d perf tools: Make more global variables static
`make check` will run sparse on the perf code base. A frequent warning
is "warning: symbol '...' was not declared. Should it be static?" Go
through and make global definitions without declarations static.

In some cases it is deliberate due to dlsym accessing the symbol, this
change doesn't clean up the missing declarations for perf test suites.

Sometimes things can opportunistically be made const.

Making somethings static exposed unused functions warnings, so
restructuring of ifdefs was necessary for that.

These changes reduce the size of the perf binary by 568 bytes.

Committer notes:

Refreshed the patch, the original one fell thru the cracks, updated the
size reduction.

Remove the trace-event-scripting.c changes, break the build, noticed
with container builds and with sashiko:

  https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260401215306.2152898-1-acme%40kernel.org

Also make two variables static to address another sashiko review
comment:

  https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260402001740.2220481-1-acme%40kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-08 19:21:04 -07:00
Namhyung Kim
dc647eb009 perf test: Skip sched stats test for !root
Running perf sched stats requires root and it fails to open the
schedstat file for regular users.  Let's skip the test.

  $ perf sched stats true
  Failed to open /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-05 23:27:51 -07:00
Ian Rogers
aeae075a03 perf sample: Add evsel to struct perf_sample
Add the evsel from evsel__parse_sample into the struct
perf_sample. Sometimes we want to alter the evsel associated with a
sample, such as with off-cpu bpf-output events. In general the evsel
and perf_sample are passed as a pair, but this makes an altered evsel
something of a chore to keep checking for and setting up. Later
patches will remove passing an evsel with the perf_sample and switch
to just using the perf_sample's value.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-05 23:12:15 -07:00
Ian Rogers
ad5ceacd48 perf sample: Make sure perf_sample__init/exit are used
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 <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-05 23:12:15 -07:00
Ian Rogers
f1d78f5c9b perf tests sched stats: Write output to temp file
Writing to the perf.data file can fail in various contexts such as
continual test. Other tests write to a mktemp-ed file, make the "perf
sched stats tests" follow this convention.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-05 22:21:42 -07:00
Ian Rogers
aa0c2bb09b perf tests kwork: Add basic kwork coverage tests
Add basic kwork coverage tests for record, report, latency, timehist
and top.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-02 19:44:45 -07:00
Thomas Richter
eb27e1c885 perf test: Skip perf data type profiling tests for s390
Test case 'perf data type profiling tests' fails on s390 with this
error:

  # ./perf mem record -- ./perf test -w code_with_type
  failed: no PMU supports the memory events
  # echo $?
  255
  #

because s390 does not support memory events at all. According to the
man page, perf annotate --code-with-type only works with memory
instructions only.  As command 'perf mem record ...' is not supported
on s390, skip this test for s390.

Output before:
 # ./perf test 'perf data type profiling tests'
 77: perf data type profiling tests                        : FAILED!

Output after:
 # ./perf test 'perf data type profiling tests'
 77: perf data type profiling tests                        : Skip

Fixes: f60a5c2296 ("perf tests: Test annotate with data type profiling and rust")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-02 12:51:10 -07:00
Thomas Falcon
77cb9b443b perf test: Fix ratio_to_prev event parsing test
test__ratio_to_prev() assumed the first event in a group is the leader,
which is not the case when the event is expanded into two event groups
on hybrid PMU's with auto counter reload support. Instead, iterate over the
event group generated for each core PMU. Also update "wrong leader" test to
check that the subordinate event has the correct leader instead of checking
that it is not the group leader. Finally, do not exit immediately if a PMU
without auto counter reload support is found.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Fixes: 56be0fe5f6 ("perf record: Add auto counter reload parse and regression tests")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-02 12:51:10 -07:00
Namhyung Kim
d9db9c8db5 perf test: Fix perf stat --bpf-counters on hybrid machines
The test constantly fails on my Intel hybrid machine.  The issue was it
has two events in the output even if I only gave it one event.

  $ perf stat -e instructions -- perf test -w sqrtloop

   Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w sqrtloop':

         910,856,421      cpu_atom/instructions/                (28.05%)
      14,852,865,997      cpu_core/instructions/                (96.79%)

         1.014313341 seconds time elapsed

         1.004114000 seconds user
         0.008174000 seconds sys

Let's modify the awk script to add the values for each line and print
the total.  The variable 'i' has a number of input lines that have valid
output and variable 'c' has the sum of actual counter values.  That way
it should work on any platforms.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-04-01 14:50:53 -07:00