kernel.git/tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c, branch master

perf stat: Reduce scope of walltime_nsecs_stats

2025-11-18T02:43:09Z

walltime_nsecs_stats is no longer used for counter values, move into that stat_config where it controls certain things like noise measurement. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf pmu: Don't eagerly parse event terms

2025-10-15T14:59:10Z

When an event/alias is created for a PMU the terms are eagerly parsed using parse_events_terms. For a command like perf stat or perf record, the particular event/alias will be found, the terms parsed, the terms cloned for use in the event parsing, and then the terms used to configure the perf_event_attr. Events/aliases may be eagerly loaded, such as from sysfs or in perf list, in which case the aliases terms will be little or never used. To avoid redundant work, to avoid cloning, and to reduce memory overhead, hold the terms for an event as a string until they need handling as a term list. This may introduce duplicate parsing if an event is repeated in a list, but this situation is expected to be uncommon. Measuring the number of instructions before and after with a sysfs event and perf stat, there is a minor reduction in the number of instructions executed by 0.3%. Tested-by: Thomas Richter Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf jevents: If the long_desc and desc are identical then drop the long_desc

2025-07-11T19:36:40Z

If the short and long descriptions are the same then save space and don't store both of them. When storing the desc in the perf_pmu_alias, don't duplicate the desc into the long_desc. By avoiding storing the duplicate the size of the events string in the binary on x86 is reduced by 29,840 bytes. Fix tests that expect a duplicated description. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250710235126.1086011-9-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf stat: Move metric list from config to evlist

2025-07-11T19:36:40Z

The rblist of metric_event that then have a list of associated metric_expr is moved out of the stat_config and into the evlist. This is done as part of refactoring things for python, having the state split in two places complicates that implementation. The evlist is doing the harder work of enabling and disabling events, the metrics are needed to compute a value and it doesn't seem unreasonable to hang them from the evlist. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250710235126.1086011-7-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf pmu: Change aliases from list to hashmap

2025-05-13T19:36:43Z

Finding an alias for things like perf_pmu__have_event() would need to search the aliases list, whilst this happens relatively infrequently it can be a significant overhead in testing. Switch to using a hashmap. Move common initialization code to perf_pmu__init(). Refactor the test 'struct perf_pmu_test_pmu' to not have perf pmu within it to better support the perf_pmu__init() function. Before: ``` $ time perf test "Parsing of PMU event table metrics" 10.3: Parsing of PMU event table metrics : Ok 10.4: Parsing of PMU event table metrics with fake PMUs : Ok real 0m13.287s user 0m13.026s sys 0m0.532s ``` After: ``` $ time perf test "Parsing of PMU event table metrics" 10.3: Parsing of PMU event table metrics : Ok 10.4: Parsing of PMU event table metrics with fake PMUs : Ok real 0m13.011s user 0m12.885s sys 0m0.485s ``` Committer testing: root@number:~# grep -m1 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo model name : AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core Processor root@number:~# Before: root@number:~# time perf test "Parsing of PMU event table metrics" 10.3: Parsing of PMU event table metrics : Ok 10.4: Parsing of PMU event table metrics with fake PMUs : Ok real 0m9.296s user 0m9.361s sys 0m0.063s root@number:~# After: root@number:~# time perf test "Parsing of PMU event table metrics" 10.3: Parsing of PMU event table metrics : Ok 10.4: Parsing of PMU event table metrics with fake PMUs : Ok real 0m9.286s user 0m9.354s sys 0m0.062s root@number:~# Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Tested-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Xu Yang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250512194622.33258-3-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf pmus: Fake PMU clean up

2024-09-11T14:27:42Z

Rather than passing a fake PMU around, just pass that the fake PMU should be used - true when doing testing. Move the fake PMU into pmus.[ch] and try to abstract the PMU's properties in pmu.c, ie so there is less "if fake_pmu" in non-PMU code. Give the fake PMU a made up type number. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Benjamin Gray Cc: Changbin Du Cc: Clément Le Goffic Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Dominique Martinet Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jing Zhang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Junhao He Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Sandipan Das Cc: Sun Haiyong Cc: Tiezhu Yang Cc: Veronika Molnarova Cc: Weilin Wang Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Xu Yang Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Yicong Yang Cc: Ze Gao Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240907050830.6752-3-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf parse-events: Add new 'fake_tp' parameter for tests

2024-05-10T13:49:26Z

The next commit will allow tracepoints starting with digits, but most systems do not have any available by default so tests should skip the actual "check if it exists in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing" step. In order to do that, add a new boolean flag specifying if we should actually "format" the probe or not. Originally-by: Jiri Olsa Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240510-perf_digit-v4-2-db1553f3233b@codewreck.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf test pmu-events: Make it clearer that pmu-events tests JSON events

2024-05-03T20:08:04Z

Add JSON to the test name. Reviewed-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jing Zhang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Thomas Richter Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240502213507.2339733-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf jevents: Drop or simplify small integer values

2024-02-02T21:09:30Z

Prior to this patch '0' would be dropped as the config values default to 0. Some json values are hex and the string '0' wouldn't match '0x0' as zero. Add a more robust is_zero test to drop these event terms. When encoding numbers as hex, if the number is between 0 and 9 inclusive then don't add a 0x prefix. Update test expectations for these changes. On x86 this reduces the event/metric C string by 58,411 bytes. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: Kan Liang Cc: Edward Baker Cc: Perry Taylor Cc: Weilin Wang Cc: John Garry Cc: Jing Zhang Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Michael Petlan Cc: Veronika Molnarova Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131201429.792138-1-irogers@google.com

perf test: Add pmu-event test for "Compat" and new event_field.

2023-09-28T04:02:41Z

Add new event test for uncore system event which is used to verify the functionality of "Compat" matching multiple identifiers and the new event fields "EventidCode" and "NodeType". Signed-off-by: Jing Zhang Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Ian Rogers Cc: James Clark Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Shuai Xue Cc: Zhuo Song Cc: John Garry Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1695794391-34817-6-git-send-email-renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim