Re: [PATCH v2] perf test: Add AMD IBS sw filter test

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 05:51:21PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 03:17:13PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> > Hi Namhyung,
> > 
> > On 24-May-25 5:57 AM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > > The kernel v6.14 added 'swfilt' to support privilege filtering in
> > > software so that IBS can be used by regular users.  Add a test case in
> > > x86 to verify the behavior.
> > > 
> > >   $ sudo perf test -vv 'IBS software filter'
> > >   113: AMD IBS software filtering:
> > >   --- start ---
> > >   test child forked, pid 178826
> > >   check availability of IBS swfilt
> > >   run perf record with modifier and swfilt
> > >   [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
> > >   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB /dev/null ]
> > >   [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
> > >   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB /dev/null ]
> > >   [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
> > >   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB /dev/null ]
> > >   [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
> > >   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB /dev/null ]
> > >   check number of samples with swfilt
> > >   [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
> > >   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.037 MB - ]
> > >   [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
> > >   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.041 MB - ]
> > >   ---- end(0) ----
> > >   113: AMD IBS software filtering                                      : Ok
> > > 
> > > Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
> > 
> > A minor nit below ...
> > 
> > > +echo "check number of samples with swfilt"
> > > +
> > > +kernel_sample=$(perf record -e ibs_op/swfilt/u -o- true | perf script -i- -F misc | grep -c ^K)
> > 
> > "true" barely runs in userspace. So, many a times this "perf record"
> > generates no samples :)
> 
> Right, something else, maybe one of those workloads:
> 
> acme@number:~/git/perf-tools-next$ perf test --list-workloads
> noploop
> thloop
> leafloop
> sqrtloop
> brstack
> datasym
> landlock
> acme@number:~/git/perf-tools-next$
> 
> root@number:~# time perf record -e ibs_op/swfilt/u perf test -w sqrtloop
> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.160 MB perf.data (3976 samples) ]
> 
> real	0m1.588s
> user	0m1.407s
> sys	0m0.161s
> root@number:~# perf script | wc -l
> 3976
> root@number:~#
> 
> But I'm applying the patch as is, we can replace the workload later.

Thanks, I can add some workload to create both kernel and user traffic.
I think the current workloads run in user space mostly.

Thanks,
Namhyung