linux/tools
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 3e7c439a7c perf test: Validate PERF_RECORD_ events and perf_sample fields
This new test will validate these new routines extracted from 'perf
record':

 - perf_evlist__config_attrs
 - perf_evlist__prepare_workload
 - perf_evlist__start_workload

In addition to several other perf_evlist methods.

It consists of starting a simple workload, setting up just one event to
monitor ("cycles") requesting that several PERF_SAMPLE_ fields be
present in all events.

It then will check that the expected PERF_RECORD_ events are produced
and will sanity check all its fields.

Some checks performed:

. PERF_SAMPLE_TIME monotonically increases.

. PERF_SAMPLE_CPU is the one requested with sched_setaffinity

. PERF_SAMPLE_TID and PERF_SAMPLE_PID matches the one we forked
  in perf_evlist__prepare_workload and that is stored in
  evlist->workload.pid

. For the events where these fields are also present in its
  pre-sample_id_all fields (e.g. event->mmap.pid), that they are what
  is expected too.

. That we get a bunch of mmaps:

  PATH/libcSUFFIX
  PATH/ldSUFFIX
  [vdso]
  PATH/sleep

Example:

  [root@emilia ~]# taskset -c 3,4 perf test -v1 perf_sample
   6: Validate PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields:
  --- start ---
  7159480799825 3 PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE
  7159480805584 3 PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE
  7159480807814 3 PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE
  7159480810430 3 PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE
  7159480861511 3 PERF_RECORD_MMAP 8086/8086: [0x7fffffffd000(0x2000) @ 0x7fffffffd000]: //anon
  7159481052516 3 PERF_RECORD_COMM: sleep:8086
  7159481070188 3 PERF_RECORD_MMAP 8086/8086: [0x400000(0x6000) @ 0]: /bin/sleep
  7159481077104 3 PERF_RECORD_MMAP 8086/8086: [0x3d06400000(0x221000) @ 0]: /lib64/ld-2.12.so
  7159481092912 3 PERF_RECORD_MMAP 8086/8086: [0x7fff1adff000(0x1000) @ 0x7fff1adff000]: [vdso]
  7159481196779 3 PERF_RECORD_MMAP 8086/8086: [0x3d06800000(0x37f000) @ 0]: /lib64/libc-2.12.so
  7160481558435 3 PERF_RECORD_EXIT(8086:8086):(8086:8086)
  ---- end ----
  Validate PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields: Ok
  [root@emilia ~]#

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-svag18v2z4idas0dyz3umjpq@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-02 11:13:50 -02:00
..
firewire tools/firewire: nosy-dump: increment program version 2010-07-27 11:04:12 +02:00
hv Staging: hv: move hyperv code out of staging directory 2011-10-10 22:52:55 -06:00
perf perf test: Validate PERF_RECORD_ events and perf_sample fields 2011-12-02 11:13:50 -02:00
power Merge branches 'acpi', 'idle', 'mrst-pmu' and 'pm-tools' into next 2011-11-06 22:14:50 -05:00
slub Merge branches 'slab/next' and 'slub/partial' into slab/for-linus 2011-10-26 18:09:12 +03:00
testing/ktest ktest: Evaluate variables entered on the command line 2011-10-28 07:01:40 -04:00
usb USB: ffs-test: fix header path 2011-02-28 19:27:12 -08:00
virtio virtio_test: support event index 2011-05-30 11:14:15 +09:30