kernel/tools/testing/selftests/user_events/perf_test.c, branch linux-rolling-stable

selftests: complete kselftest include centralization

2025-11-27T22:24:31Z

This follow-up patch completes centralization of kselftest.h and ksefltest_harness.h includes in remaining seltests files, replacing all relative paths with a non-relative paths using shared -I include path in lib.mk Tested with gcc-13.3 and clang-18.1, and cross-compiled successfully on riscv, arm64, x86_64 and powerpc arch. [reddybalavignesh9979@gmail.com: add selftests include path for kselftest.h] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251017090201.317521-1-reddybalavignesh9979@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251016104409.68985-1-reddybalavignesh9979@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Bala-Vignesh-Reddy Suggested-by: Andrew Morton Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250820143954.33d95635e504e94df01930d0@linux-foundation.org/ Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Günther Noack Cc: Jakub Kacinski Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mickael Salaun Cc: Ming Lei Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Simon Horman Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

selftests/user_events: fix type cast for write_index packed member in perf_test

2025-11-15T18:52:02Z

Accessing 'reg.write_index' directly triggers a -Waddress-of-packed-member warning due to potential unaligned pointer access: perf_test.c:239:38: warning: taking address of packed member 'write_index' of class or structure 'user_reg' may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Waddress-of-packed-member] 239 | ASSERT_NE(-1, write(self->data_fd, ®.write_index, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since write(2) works with any alignment. Casting '®.write_index' explicitly to 'void *' to suppress this warning. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251106095532.15185-1-ankitkhushwaha.linux@gmail.com Fixes: 42187bdc3ca4 ("selftests/user_events: Add perf self-test for empty arguments events") Signed-off-by: Ankit Khushwaha Cc: Beau Belgrave Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: sunliming Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

selftests/user_events: Fix to unmount tracefs when test created mount

2023-09-18T17:04:52Z

Fix to unmount tracefs if the self-test mounted it to allow testing. If tracefs was already mounted, this does nothing. Suggested-by: Mark Brown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/29fce076-746c-4650-8358-b4e0fa215cf7@sirena.org.uk/ Fixes: a06023a8f78d ("selftests/user_events: Fix failures when user_events is not installed") Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave Reviewed-by: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan

selftests/user_events: Fix failures when user_events is not installed

2023-09-11T23:04:11Z

When user_events is not installed the self tests currently fail. Now that these self tests run by default we need to ensure they don't fail when user_events was not enabled for the kernel being tested. Add common methods to detect if tracefs and user_events is enabled. If either is not enabled skip the test. If tracefs is enabled, but is not mounted, mount tracefs and fail if there were any errors. Fail if not run as root. Fixes: 68b4d2d58389 ("selftests/user_events: Reenable build") Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+G9fYuugZ0OMeS6HvpSS4nuf_A3s455ecipGBvER0LJHojKZg@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan

selftests/user_events: Add perf self-test for empty arguments events

2023-06-14T16:41:53Z

Tests to ensure events that has empty arguments can input trace record correctly when using perf. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230606062027.1008398-5-sunliming@kylinos.cn Acked-by: Beau Belgrave Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: sunliming Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

selftests/user_events: Clear the events after perf self-test

2023-06-14T16:41:53Z

When the self test is completed, perf self-test left the user events not to be cleared. Clear the events by unregister and delete the event. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230606062027.1008398-4-sunliming@kylinos.cn Acked-by: Beau Belgrave Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: sunliming Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing/user_events: Update self-tests to write ABI

2023-03-29T10:52:08Z

ABI has been changed to remote writes, update existing test cases to use this new ABI to ensure existing functionality continues to work. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230328235219.203-7-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

selftests: use canonical ftrace path

2023-03-29T10:52:07Z

The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing. But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst: Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing. For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system, the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing A few spots in tools/testing/selftests still refer to this older debugfs path, so let's update them to avoid confusion. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230313211746.1541525-1-zwisler@kernel.org Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Tycho Andersen Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing/user_events: Use bits vs bytes for enabled status page data

2022-09-29T14:17:37Z

User processes may require many events and when they do the cache performance of a byte index status check is less ideal than a bit index. The previous event limit per-page was 4096, the new limit is 32,768. This change adds a bitwise index to the user_reg struct. Programs check that the bit at status_bit has a bit set within the status page(s). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220728233309.1896-6-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2059213643.196683.1648499088753.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com/ Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

user_events: Add self-test for perf_event integration

2022-02-11T03:37:59Z

Tests perf can be attached to and written out correctly. Ensures attach updates status bits in user programs. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-10-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)