Re: [PATCH v4] perf test: Introduce script for data symbol testing

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

Hi Leo,

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 5:09 AM Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> This commit introduces a shell script for data symbol testing.
>
> The testing is designed a data structure with 64-byte alignment, it has
> two fields "data1" and "data2", and other fields are reserved.
>
> Using "perf mem" command, we can record and report memory samples for a
> self-contained workload with 1 second duration.  If have no any memory
> sample for the data structure "buf1", it reports failure;  and by
> checking the offset in structure "buf1", if any memory accessing is not
> for "data1" and "data2" fields, it means wrong data symbol parsing and
> returns failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
> ---
>
> Channges from v3:
> - Add specific testing chunk for AMD CPUs (Ravi).
>
>  tools/perf/tests/shell/test_data_symbol.sh | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 93 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100755 tools/perf/tests/shell/test_data_symbol.sh
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_data_symbol.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_data_symbol.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 000000000000..43ab1e37407c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_data_symbol.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
> +#!/bin/bash
> +# Test data symbol
> +
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +# Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>, 2022
> +
> +skip_if_no_mem_event() {
> +       perf mem record -e list 2>&1 | egrep -q 'available' && return 0
> +       return 2
> +}
> +
> +skip_if_no_mem_event || exit 2
> +
> +# skip if there's no compiler
> +if ! [ -x "$(command -v cc)" ]; then
> +       echo "skip: no compiler, install gcc"
> +       exit 2
> +fi
> +
> +TEST_PROGRAM=$(mktemp /tmp/__perf_test.program.XXXXX)
> +PERF_DATA=$(mktemp /tmp/__perf_test.perf.data.XXXXX)
> +
> +check_result() {
> +       # The memory report format is as below:
> +       #    99.92%  ...  [.] buf1+0x38
> +       result=$(perf mem report -i ${PERF_DATA} -s symbol_daddr -q 2>&1 |
> +                awk '/buf1/ { print $4 }')
> +
> +       # Testing is failed if has no any sample for "buf1"
> +       [ -z "$result" ] && return 1
> +
> +       while IFS= read -r line; do
> +               # The "data1" and "data2" fields in structure "buf1" have
> +               # offset "0x0" and "0x38", returns failure if detect any
> +               # other offset value.
> +               if [ "$line" != "buf1+0x0" ] && [ "$line" != "buf1+0x38" ]; then
> +                       return 1
> +               fi
> +       done <<< "$result"
> +
> +       return 0
> +}
> +
> +cleanup_files()
> +{
> +       echo "Cleaning up files..."
> +       rm -f ${PERF_DATA}
> +       rm -f ${TEST_PROGRAM}
> +}
> +
> +trap cleanup_files exit term int
> +
> +# compile test program
> +echo "Compiling test program..."
> +cat << EOF | cc -o ${TEST_PROGRAM} -x c -
> +typedef struct _buf {
> +       char data1;
> +       char reserved[55];
> +       char data2;
> +} buf __attribute__((aligned(64)));
> +
> +static buf buf1;
> +
> +int main(void) {
> +       for (;;) {
> +               buf1.data1++;
> +               buf1.data2 += buf1.data1;
> +       }
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +EOF
> +
> +echo "Recording workload..."
> +
> +# perf mem/c2c internally uses IBS PMU on AMD CPU which doesn't support
> +# user/kernel filtering and per-process monitoring, spin program on
> +# specific CPU and test in per-CPU mode.
> +is_amd=$(egrep -c 'vendor_id.*AuthenticAMD' /proc/cpuinfo)
> +if (($is_amd >= 1)); then
> +       perf mem record -o ${PERF_DATA} -- -C 0 -- taskset -c 0 $TEST_PROGRAM &

I'm curious why it has "--" before "-C 0"..

Thanks,
Namhyung


> +else
> +       perf mem record --all-user -o ${PERF_DATA} -- $TEST_PROGRAM &
> +fi
> +
> +PERFPID=$!
> +
> +sleep 1
> +
> +kill $PERFPID
> +wait $PERFPID
> +
> +check_result
> +exit $?
> --
> 2.34.1
>