kernel/tools/perf/tests/perf-record.c, branch linux-rolling-stable

perf test: Don't leak workload gopipe in PERF_RECORD_*

2025-09-19T19:39:20Z

The test starts a workload and then opens events. If the events fail to open, for example because of perf_event_paranoid, the gopipe of the workload is leaked and the file descriptor leak check fails when the test exits. To avoid this cancel the workload when opening the events fails. Before: ``` $ perf test -vv 7 7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields: --- start --- test child forked, pid 1189568 Using CPUID GenuineIntel-6-B7-1 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) config 0xa00000000 (cpu_atom/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/) disabled 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 0 cpu -1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) config 0xa00000000 (cpu_atom/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/) disabled 1 exclude_kernel 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 0 cpu -1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 3 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) config 0x400000000 (cpu_core/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/) disabled 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 0 cpu -1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) config 0x400000000 (cpu_core/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/) disabled 1 exclude_kernel 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 0 cpu -1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 3 Attempt to add: software/cpu-clock/ ..after resolving event: software/config=0/ cpu-clock -> software/cpu-clock/ ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE) size 136 config 0x9 (PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY) sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU read_format ID|LOST disabled 1 inherit 1 mmap 1 comm 1 enable_on_exec 1 task 1 sample_id_all 1 mmap2 1 comm_exec 1 ksymbol 1 bpf_event 1 { wakeup_events, wakeup_watermark } 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 1189569 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13 perf_evlist__open: Permission denied ---- end(-2) ---- Leak of file descriptor 6 that opened: 'pipe:[14200347]' ---- unexpected signal (6) ---- iFailed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon #0 0x565358f6666e in child_test_sig_handler builtin-test.c:311 #1 0x7f29ce849df0 in __restore_rt libc_sigaction.c:0 #2 0x7f29ce89e95c in __pthread_kill_implementation pthread_kill.c:44 #3 0x7f29ce849cc2 in raise raise.c:27 #4 0x7f29ce8324ac in abort abort.c:81 #5 0x565358f662d4 in check_leaks builtin-test.c:226 #6 0x565358f6682e in run_test_child builtin-test.c:344 #7 0x565358ef7121 in start_command run-command.c:128 #8 0x565358f67273 in start_test builtin-test.c:545 #9 0x565358f6771d in __cmd_test builtin-test.c:647 #10 0x565358f682bd in cmd_test builtin-test.c:849 #11 0x565358ee5ded in run_builtin perf.c:349 #12 0x565358ee6085 in handle_internal_command perf.c:401 #13 0x565358ee61de in run_argv perf.c:448 #14 0x565358ee6527 in main perf.c:555 #15 0x7f29ce833ca8 in __libc_start_call_main libc_start_call_main.h:74 #16 0x7f29ce833d65 in __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 libc-start.c:128 #17 0x565358e391c1 in _start perf[851c1] 7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : FAILED! ``` After: ``` $ perf test 7 7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : Skip (permissions) ``` Fixes: 16d00fee703866c6 ("perf tests: Move test__PERF_RECORD into separate object") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Chun-Tse Shao Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tests record: Update testcase to fix usage of affinity for machines with #CPUs > 1K

2025-09-19T15:14:30Z

The perf record testcase fails on systems with more than 1K CPUs. Testcase: perf test -vv "PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields" PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : --- start --- test child forked, pid 272482 sched_getaffinity: Invalid argument sched__get_first_possible_cpu: Invalid argument test child finished with -1 ---- end ---- PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields: FAILED! sched__get_first_possible_cpu uses "sched_getaffinity" to get the cpumask and this call is returning EINVAL (Invalid argument). This happens because the default mask size in glibc is 1024. To overcome this 1024 CPUs mask size limitation of cpu_set_t, change the mask size using the CPU_*_S macros ie, use CPU_ALLOC to allocate cpumask, CPU_ALLOC_SIZE for size. Same fix needed for mask which is used to setaffinity so that mask size is large enough to represent number of possible CPU's in the system. Reported-by: Tejas Manhas Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev Tested-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Tejas Manhas Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Aditya Bodkhe Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Hari Bathini Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf target: Remove uid from target

2025-06-09T18:18:18Z

Gathering threads with a uid by scanning /proc is inherently racy leading to perf_event_open failures that quit perf. All users of the functionality now use BPF filters, so remove uid and uid_str from target. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250604174545.2853620-10-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf sample: Make user_regs and intr_regs optional

2025-02-13T04:06:11Z

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: Add missing event.h include

2022-10-31T14:07:08Z

It uses things like perf_event__name() but were not including event.h, where its prototype lives, fix it. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Move 'struct perf_sample' to a separate header file to disentangle headers

2022-10-31T14:06:41Z

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

perf tests: Avoid pthread.h inclusion

2022-10-04T11:55:19Z

pthread.h is being included for the side-effect of getting sched.h and macros like CPU_CLR. Switch to directly using sched.h, or if that is already present, just remove the pthread.h inclusion entirely. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Truong Cc: Alexey Bayduraev Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Andres Freund Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: André Almeida Cc: Athira Jajeev Cc: Christophe JAILLET Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Dario Petrillo Cc: Darren Hart Cc: Dave Marchevsky Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Fangrui Song Cc: Hewenliang Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jason Wang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Kim Phillips Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Martin Liška Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Pavithra Gurushankar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quentin Monnet Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Remi Bernon Cc: Riccardo Mancini Cc: Song Liu Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Tom Rix Cc: Weiguo Li Cc: Wenyu Liu Cc: William Cohen Cc: Zechuan Chen Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev Cc: yaowenbin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220826164242.43412-4-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tests record: Fail the test if the 'errs' counter is not zero

2022-09-29T12:53:15Z

We were just checking for the 'err' variable, when we should really see if there was some of the many checked errors that don't stop the test right away. Detected with clang 15.0.0: 44 75.23 fedora:37 : FAIL clang version 15.0.0 (Fedora 15.0.0-2.fc37) tests/perf-record.c:68:16: error: variable 'errs' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable] int err = -1, errs = 0, i, wakeups = 0; ^ 1 error generated. The patch introducing this 'perf test' entry had that check: + return (err < 0 || errs > 0) ? -1 : 0; But at some point we lost that: - return (err < 0 || errs > 0) ? -1 : 0; + if (err == -EACCES) + return TEST_SKIP; + if (err < 0) + return TEST_FAIL; + return TEST_OK Put it back. Fixes: 2cf88f4614c996e5 ("perf test: Use skip in PERF_RECORD_*") Acked-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YzR0n5QhsH9VyYB0@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf test: Use skip in PERF_RECORD_*

2022-05-23T13:05:07Z

Check if the error code is EACCES and make the test a skip with a "permissions" skip reason if so. Committer testing: Before: $ perf test PERF_RECORD 8: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : FAILED! $ After: $ perf test PERF_RECORD 8: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : Skip (permissions) $ Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Carsten Haitzler Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Michael Petlan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Riccardo Mancini Cc: Sohaib Mohamed Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220518042027.836799-9-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf test: Rename struct test to test_suite

2021-11-13T13:32:22Z

This is to align with kunit's terminology. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Sohaib Mohamed Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Brendan Higgins Cc: Daniel Latypov Cc: David Gow Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jin Yao Cc: John Garry Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Clarke Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211104064208.3156807-6-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo