perf test: Validate PERF_RECORD_ events and perf_sample fields
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 2 Dec 2011 13:13:50 +0000 (11:13 -0200)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 2 Dec 2011 13:13:50 +0000 (11:13 -0200)
commit3e7c439a7ce537ed662e347b9e6414d7881fb3dc
tree2b1ccb94b15798727cd8eb0b71424b10c72f63ca
parent482ad89745f7121020f6cee38aa4e894a4e7d642
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>
tools/perf/builtin-test.c