History log of /linux-master/tools/perf/tests/attr/README
Revision Date Author Comments
# 5f8f9567 13-Dec-2022 Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

perf evlist: Remove group option.

The group option predates grouping events using curly braces added in
commit 89efb029502d7f2d ("perf tools: Add support to parse event group
syntax").

The --group option was retained for legacy support (in August
2012) but keeping it adds complexity.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Cc: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Shaomin Deng <dengshaomin@cdjrlc.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes@arm.com>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221213232651.1269909-6-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 3b9a8c8b 21-Apr-2022 Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes@arm.com>

perf test: Add perf_event_attr test for Arm SPE

Adds a perf_event_attr test for Arm SPE in which the presence of
physical addresses are checked when SPE unit is run with pa_enable=1.

Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes@arm.com>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421165205.117662-4-timothy.hayes@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# d57159ef 26-Jan-2022 German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>

perf test: Add perf_event_attr tests for the arm_spe event

Adds a couple of perf_event_attr tests for the fix introduced in [1].
The tests check that the correct sample_period value is set in the
struct perf_event_attr of the arm_spe events.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220118144054.2541-1-german.gomez@arm.com/

Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220126160710.32983-1-german.gomez@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 047e6032 25-Jan-2022 German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>

perf test: Fix arm64 perf_event_attr tests wrt --call-graph initialization

The struct perf_event_attr is initialised differently in Arm64 when
recording in call-graph fp mode, so update the relevant tests, and add
two extra arm64-only tests.

Before:

$ perf test 17 -v
17: Setup struct perf_event_attr
[...]
running './tests/attr/test-record-graph-default'
expected sample_type=295, got 4391
expected sample_regs_user=0, got 1073741824
FAILED './tests/attr/test-record-graph-default' - match failure
test child finished with -1
---- end ----

After:

[...]
running './tests/attr/test-record-graph-default-aarch64'
test limitation 'aarch64'
running './tests/attr/test-record-graph-fp-aarch64'
test limitation 'aarch64'
running './tests/attr/test-record-graph-default'
test limitation '!aarch64'
excluded architecture list ['aarch64']
skipped [aarch64] './tests/attr/test-record-graph-default'
running './tests/attr/test-record-graph-fp'
test limitation '!aarch64'
excluded architecture list ['aarch64']
skipped [aarch64] './tests/attr/test-record-graph-fp'
[...]

Fixes: 7248e308a5758761 ("perf tools: Record ARM64 LR register automatically")
Signed-off-by: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Truong <alexandre.truong@arm.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220125104435.2737-1-german.gomez@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 880a7843 11-Sep-2020 Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

perf test: Leader sampling shouldn't clear sample period

Add test that a sibling with leader sampling doesn't have its period
cleared.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200912025655.1337192-5-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 1b98c6e3 28-Jul-2020 Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

perf test: Ensure sample_period is set libpfm4 events

Test that a command line option doesn't override the period set on a
libpfm4 event.

Without libpfm4 test passes as unsupported.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200728085734.609930-4-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 46d525ea 31-Oct-2013 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf test: Update command line callchain attribute tests

The "struct perf_event_attr setup" entry in 'perf test' is in fact a
series of tests that will exec the tools, passing different sets of
command line arguments to then intercept the sys_perf_event_open
syscall, in user space, to check that the perf_event_attr->sample_type
and other feature request bits are setup as expected.

We recently restored the callchain requesting command line argument, -g,
to not require a parameter ("dwarf" or "fp"), instead using a default
("fp" for now) and making the long option variant, --call-chain, be the
one to be used when a different callchain collection method is
preferred.

The "struct perf_event_attr setup" test failed because we forgot to
update the tests involving callchains, not switching from, '-g dwarf' to
'--call-chain dwarf', making 'perf test' detect it:

[root@sandy ~]# perf test -v 13
13: struct perf_event_attr setup :
--- start ---
running '/home/acme/libexec/perf-core/tests/attr/test-record-basic'
running '/home/acme/libexec/perf-core/tests/attr/test-record-branch-any'
<SNIP>
running '/home/acme/libexec/perf-core/tests/attr/test-record-graph-default'
running '/home/acme/libexec/perf-core/tests/attr/test-record-graph-dwarf'
expected sample_type=12583, got 295
expected exclude_callchain_user=1, got 0
expected sample_stack_user=8192, got 0
FAILED '/home/acme/libexec/perf-core/tests/attr/test-record-graph-dwarf' - match failure
---- end ----
struct perf_event_attr setup: FAILED!
[root@sandy ~]#

Fix all of them now to use --call-chain when explicitely specifying a
method.

There is still work to do, as '-g fp', for instance, passed without
problems.

In that case 'perf test' saw no problems as the intercepted syscall got
the bits as expected, i.e. the default is 'fp', but the fact that 'fp'
may be an existing program and the specified workload would then be
passed as a parameter to it is an usability problem that needs fixing.

Next merge window tho.

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jr3oq1k5iywnp7vvqlslzydm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# b84800a3 30-Oct-2012 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

perf tests: Add documentation for attr tests

Adding documentation for attr tests.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351634526-1516-26-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>