perf test: Add kernel lock contention test
authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Sat, 24 Sep 2022 00:42:21 +0000 (17:42 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 4 Oct 2022 11:55:23 +0000 (08:55 -0300)
Add a new shell test to check if both normal 'perf lock record' +
contention and BPF (with -b) option are working.

Use 'perf bench sched messaging' as a workload since it creates some
contention for sending and receiving messages.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220924004221.841024-3-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/tests/shell/lock_contention.sh [new file with mode: 0755]

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/lock_contention.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/lock_contention.sh
new file mode 100755 (executable)
index 0000000..04bf604
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# kernel lock contention analysis test
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+set -e
+
+err=0
+perfdata=$(mktemp /tmp/__perf_test.perf.data.XXXXX)
+result=$(mktemp /tmp/__perf_test.result.XXXXX)
+
+cleanup() {
+       rm -f ${perfdata}
+       rm -f ${result}
+       trap - exit term int
+}
+
+trap_cleanup() {
+       cleanup
+       exit ${err}
+}
+trap trap_cleanup exit term int
+
+check() {
+       if [ `id -u` != 0 ]; then
+               echo "[Skip] No root permission"
+               err=2
+               exit
+       fi
+
+       if ! perf list | grep -q lock:contention_begin; then
+               echo "[Skip] No lock contention tracepoints"
+               err=2
+               exit
+       fi
+}
+
+test_record()
+{
+       echo "Testing perf lock record and perf lock contention"
+       perf lock record -o ${perfdata} -- perf bench sched messaging > /dev/null 2>&1
+       # the output goes to the stderr and we expect only 1 output (-E 1)
+       perf lock contention -i ${perfdata} -E 1 -q 2> ${result}
+       if [ $(cat "${result}" | wc -l) != "1" ]; then
+               echo "[Fail] Recorded result count is not 1:" $(cat "${result}" | wc -l)
+               err=1
+               exit
+       fi
+}
+
+test_bpf()
+{
+       echo "Testing perf lock contention --use-bpf"
+
+       if ! perf lock con -b true > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+               echo "[Skip] No BPF support"
+               exit
+       fi
+
+       # the perf lock contention output goes to the stderr
+       perf lock con -a -b -E 1 -q -- perf bench sched messaging > /dev/null 2> ${result}
+       if [ $(cat "${result}" | wc -l) != "1" ]; then
+               echo "[Fail] BPF result count is not 1:" $(cat "${result}" | wc -l)
+               err=1
+               exit
+       fi
+}
+
+check
+
+test_record
+test_bpf
+
+exit ${err}