2022-11-16 23:44:49

by Namhyung Kim

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Subject: [PATCH 10/12] perf test: Replace brstack test workload

So that it can get rid of requirement of a compiler. Also rename the
symbols to match with the perf test workload.

Acked-by: German Gomez <[email protected]>
Tested-by: James Clark <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
---
tools/perf/tests/shell/test_brstack.sh | 66 +++++---------------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_brstack.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_brstack.sh
index d7ff5c4b4da4..5856639b565b 100755
--- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_brstack.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_brstack.sh
@@ -4,13 +4,6 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
# German Gomez <[email protected]>, 2022

-# we need a C compiler to build the test programs
-# so bail if none is found
-if ! [ -x "$(command -v cc)" ]; then
- echo "failed: no compiler, install gcc"
- exit 2
-fi
-
# skip the test if the hardware doesn't support branch stack sampling
# and if the architecture doesn't support filter types: any,save_type,u
if ! perf record -o- --no-buildid --branch-filter any,save_type,u -- true > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
@@ -19,6 +12,7 @@ if ! perf record -o- --no-buildid --branch-filter any,save_type,u -- true > /dev
fi

TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/__perf_test.program.XXXXX)
+TESTPROG="perf test -w brstack"

cleanup() {
rm -rf $TMPDIR
@@ -26,57 +20,24 @@ cleanup() {

trap cleanup exit term int

-gen_test_program() {
- # generate test program
- cat << EOF > $1
-#define BENCH_RUNS 999999
-int cnt;
-void bar(void) {
-} /* return */
-void foo(void) {
- bar(); /* call */
-} /* return */
-void bench(void) {
- void (*foo_ind)(void) = foo;
- if ((cnt++) % 3) /* branch (cond) */
- foo(); /* call */
- bar(); /* call */
- foo_ind(); /* call (ind) */
-}
-int main(void)
-{
- int cnt = 0;
- while (1) {
- if ((cnt++) > BENCH_RUNS)
- break;
- bench(); /* call */
- } /* branch (uncond) */
- return 0;
-}
-EOF
-}
-
test_user_branches() {
echo "Testing user branch stack sampling"

- gen_test_program "$TEMPDIR/program.c"
- cc -fno-inline -g "$TEMPDIR/program.c" -o $TMPDIR/a.out
-
- perf record -o $TMPDIR/perf.data --branch-filter any,save_type,u -- $TMPDIR/a.out > /dev/null 2>&1
+ perf record -o $TMPDIR/perf.data --branch-filter any,save_type,u -- ${TESTPROG} > /dev/null 2>&1
perf script -i $TMPDIR/perf.data --fields brstacksym | xargs -n1 > $TMPDIR/perf.script

# example of branch entries:
- # foo+0x14/bar+0x40/P/-/-/0/CALL
+ # brstack_foo+0x14/brstack_bar+0x40/P/-/-/0/CALL

set -x
- egrep -m1 "^bench\+[^ ]*/foo\+[^ ]*/IND_CALL$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
- egrep -m1 "^foo\+[^ ]*/bar\+[^ ]*/CALL$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
- egrep -m1 "^bench\+[^ ]*/foo\+[^ ]*/CALL$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
- egrep -m1 "^bench\+[^ ]*/bar\+[^ ]*/CALL$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
- egrep -m1 "^bar\+[^ ]*/foo\+[^ ]*/RET$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
- egrep -m1 "^foo\+[^ ]*/bench\+[^ ]*/RET$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
- egrep -m1 "^bench\+[^ ]*/bench\+[^ ]*/COND$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
- egrep -m1 "^main\+[^ ]*/main\+[^ ]*/UNCOND$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
+ egrep -m1 "^brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/brstack_foo\+[^ ]*/IND_CALL$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
+ egrep -m1 "^brstack_foo\+[^ ]*/brstack_bar\+[^ ]*/CALL$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
+ egrep -m1 "^brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/brstack_foo\+[^ ]*/CALL$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
+ egrep -m1 "^brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/brstack_bar\+[^ ]*/CALL$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
+ egrep -m1 "^brstack_bar\+[^ ]*/brstack_foo\+[^ ]*/RET$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
+ egrep -m1 "^brstack_foo\+[^ ]*/brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/RET$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
+ egrep -m1 "^brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/brstack_bench\+[^ ]*/COND$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
+ egrep -m1 "^brstack\+[^ ]*/brstack\+[^ ]*/UNCOND$" $TMPDIR/perf.script
set +x

# some branch types are still not being tested:
@@ -91,10 +52,7 @@ test_filter() {

echo "Testing branch stack filtering permutation ($filter,$expect)"

- gen_test_program "$TEMPDIR/program.c"
- cc -fno-inline -g "$TEMPDIR/program.c" -o $TMPDIR/a.out
-
- perf record -o $TMPDIR/perf.data --branch-filter $filter,save_type,u -- $TMPDIR/a.out > /dev/null 2>&1
+ perf record -o $TMPDIR/perf.data --branch-filter $filter,save_type,u -- ${TESTPROG} > /dev/null 2>&1
perf script -i $TMPDIR/perf.data --fields brstack | xargs -n1 > $TMPDIR/perf.script

# fail if we find any branch type that doesn't match any of the expected ones
--
2.38.1.584.g0f3c55d4c2-goog