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

[Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>]

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 :)

Thanks,
Ravi