linux.git/tools/perf/tests/shell, branch v6.6.131

perf test stat tests: Fix for virtualized machines

2026-03-04T12:20:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit e272628902c1c96731e2d9f62a7fc77767686eb0 ]

On s390 'perf test's 'perf stat tests', subtest test_hybrid fails for
z/VM systems.  The root cause is this statement:

  $(perf stat -a -- sleep 0.1 2>&1 |\
                  grep -E "/cpu-cycles/[uH]*|  cpu-cycles[:uH]* -c)

The 'perf stat' output on a s390 z/VM system is

  # perf stat -a -- sleep 0.1 2>&1
  Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

        56      context-switches  #     46.3 cs/sec  cs_per_second
  1,210.41 msec cpu-clock         #     11.9 CPUs  CPUs_utilized
        12      cpu-migrations    #      9.9 migrations/sec ...
        81      page-faults       #     66.9 faults/sec ...

        0.100891009 seconds time elapsed

The grep command does not match any single line and exits with error
code 1.

As the bash script is executed with 'set -e', it aborts with the first
error code being non-zero.

Fix this and use 'wc -l' to count matching lines instead of 'grep ... -c'.

Output before:

  # perf test 102
  102: perf stat tests                      : FAILED!
  #

Output after:

  # perf test 102
  102: perf stat tests                      : Ok
  #

Fixes: bb6e7cb11d97ce19 ("perf tools: Add fallback for exclude_guest")
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Reviewed-by: James Clark 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Jan Polensky 
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf test stat: Update test expectations and events

2026-03-04T12:20:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit a48cd551d7436be3b1bd65c63a6d00163f7e7706 ]

test_stat_record_report and test_stat_record_script used default
output which triggers a bug when sending metrics. As this isn't
relevant to the test switch to using named software events.

Update the match in test_hybrid as the cycles event is now cpu-cycles
to workaround potential ARM issues.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Stable-dep-of: e272628902c1 ("perf test stat tests: Fix for virtualized machines")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf test stat: Avoid hybrid assumption when virtualized

2025-10-19T14:31:02+00:00

commit f9c506fb69bdcfb9d7138281378129ff037f2aa1 upstream.

The cycles event will fallback to task-clock in the hybrid test when
running virtualized. Change the test to not fail for this.

Fixes: 65d11821910bd910 ("perf test: Add a test for default perf stat command")
Reviewed-by: James Clark 
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241212173354.9860-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf tools: Add fallback for exclude_guest

2025-10-19T14:30:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit bb6e7cb11d97ce1957894d30d13bfad3e8bfefe9 ]

Commit 7b100989b4f6bce70 ("perf evlist: Remove __evlist__add_default")
changed to parse "cycles:P" event instead of creating a new cycles
event for perf record.  But it also changed the way how modifiers are
handled so it doesn't set the exclude_guest bit by default.

It seems Apple M1 PMU requires exclude_guest set and returns EOPNOTSUPP
if not.  Let's add a fallback so that it can work with default events.

Also update perf stat hybrid tests to handle possible u or H modifiers.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Reviewed-by: James Clark 
Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria 
Acked-by: Kan Liang 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Atish Patra 
Cc: Mingwei Zhang 
Cc: Kajol Jain 
Cc: Thomas Richter 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016062359.264929-2-namhyung@kernel.org
Fixes: 7b100989b4f6bce70 ("perf evlist: Remove __evlist__add_default")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Stable-dep-of: 24937ee839e4 ("perf evsel: Ensure the fallback message is always written to")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf test: Add a test for default perf stat command

2025-10-19T14:30:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit 65d11821910bd910a2b4b5b005360d036c76ecef ]

Test that one cycles event is opened for each core PMU when "perf stat"
is run without arguments.

The event line can either be output as "pmu/cycles/" or just "cycles" if
there is only one PMU. Include 2 spaces for padding in the one PMU case
to avoid matching when the word cycles is included in metric
descriptions.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Acked-by: Kan Liang 
Signed-off-by: James Clark 
Cc: Yang Jihong 
Cc: Dominique Martinet 
Cc: Colin Ian King 
Cc: Howard Chu 
Cc: Ze Gao 
Cc: Yicong Yang 
Cc: Weilin Wang 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Mike Leach 
Cc: Jing Zhang 
Cc: Yang Li 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: Athira Rajeev 
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Yanteng Si 
Cc: Sun Haiyong 
Cc: John Garry 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240926144851.245903-8-james.clark@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Stable-dep-of: 24937ee839e4 ("perf evsel: Ensure the fallback message is always written to")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf tools: annotate asm_pure_loop.S

2025-04-10T12:37:35+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9a352a90e88a041f4b26d359493e12a7f5ae1a6a ]

Annotate so it is built with non-executable stack.

Fixes: 8b97519711c3 ("perf test: Add asm pureloop test tool")
Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner 
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250323085410.23751-1-meissner@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf test: Make test_arm_callgraph_fp.sh more robust

2024-08-03T06:53:52+00:00

[ Upstream commit ff16aeb9b83441b8458d4235496cf320189a0c60 ]

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
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf test shell arm_coresight: Increase buffer size for Coresight basic tests

2024-06-12T09:12:20+00:00

[ Upstream commit 10b6ee3b597b1b1b4dc390aaf9d589664af31df9 ]

These tests record in a mode that includes kernel trace but look for
samples of a userspace process. This makes them sensitive to any kernel
compilation options that increase the amount of time spent in the
kernel. If the trace buffer is completely filled before userspace is
reached then the test will fail. Double the buffer size to fix this.

The other tests in the same file aren't sensitive to this for various
reasons, for example the iterate devices test filters by userspace trace
only. But in order to keep coverage of all the modes, increase the
buffer size rather than filtering by userspace for the basic tests.

Fixes: d1efa4a0a696e487 ("perf cs-etm: Add separate decode paths for timeless and per-thread modes")
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual 
Signed-off-by: James Clark 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Mike Leach 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326113749.257250-1-james.clark@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf test stat_bpf_counters_cgrp: Enhance perf stat cgroup BPF counter test

2023-08-29T17:16:15+00:00

It has system-wide test and cpu-list test but the cpu-list test fails
sometimes.  It runs sleep command on CPU1 and measure both user.slice
and system.slice cgroups by default (on systemd-based systems).

But if the system was idle enough, sometime the system.slice gets no
count and it makes the test failing.  Maybe that's because it only looks
at the CPU1, let's add CPU0 to increase the chance it finds some tasks.

Fixes: 7901086014bbaa3a ("perf test: Add a new test for perf stat cgroup BPF counter")
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230825164152.165610-3-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf test shell stat_bpf_counters: Fix test on Intel

2023-08-29T17:16:14+00:00

As of now, bpf counters (bperf) don't support event groups.  But the
default perf stat includes topdown metrics if supported (on recent Intel
machines) which require groups.  That makes perf stat exiting.

  $ sudo perf stat --bpf-counter true
  bpf managed perf events do not yet support groups.

Actually the test explicitly uses cycles event only, but it missed to
pass the option when it checks the availability of the command.

Fixes: 2c0cb9f56020d2ea ("perf test: Add a shell test for 'perf stat --bpf-counters' new option")
Reviewed-by: Song Liu 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230825164152.165610-2-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo