linux.git/tools/perf/bench, branch v6.4-rc2

perf bench inject-buildid: Use zfree() to reduce chances of use after free

2023-04-12T13:14:01+00:00

Do defensive programming by using zfree() to initialize freed pointers
to NULL, so that eventual use after free result in a NULL pointer deref
instead of more subtle behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench: Add pmu-scan benchmark

2023-04-04T16:23:58+00:00

The pmu-scan benchmark will repeatedly scan the sysfs to get the
available PMU information.

  $ ./perf bench internals pmu-scan
  # Running 'internals/pmu-scan' benchmark:
  Computing performance of sysfs PMU event scan for 100 times
    Average PMU scanning took: 6850.990 usec (+- 48.445 usec)

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Acked-by: Ian Rogers 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230331202949.810326-2-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench numa: Fix type of loop iterator in do_work, it should be 'long'

2023-04-04T12:39:56+00:00

'j' is of type int and start/end are of type 'long'. Thus 'j' might become
negative and cause segfault in access_data(). Fix it by using 'long' for
'j' as well.

Reviewed-by: James Clark 
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230330074202.14052-1-aherrmann@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench: Avoid NDEBUG warning

2023-04-04T12:39:56+00:00

With NDEBUG set the asserts are compiled out. This yields
"unused-but-set-variable" variables. Move these variables behind
NDEBUG to avoid the warning.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sean Christopherson 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230330183827.1412303-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench syscall: Add fork syscall benchmark

2023-04-04T12:39:55+00:00

This is a follow up patch for the execve bench which is actually
fork + execve, it makes sense to add the fork syscall benchmark
to compare the execve part precisely.

Some archs have no __NR_fork definition which is used only as a
check condition to call test_fork(), let us just define it as -1
to avoid build error.

Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: loongson-kernel@lists.loongnix.cn
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1679381821-22736-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench syscall: Add execve syscall benchmark

2023-02-02T19:32:19+00:00

This commit adds the execve syscall benchmark, more syscall benchmarks
can be added in the future.

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1668052208-14047-5-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench syscall: Add getpgid syscall benchmark

2023-02-02T19:32:19+00:00

This commit adds a simple getpgid syscall benchmark, more syscall
benchmarks can be added in the future.

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1668052208-14047-4-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench syscall: Introduce bench_syscall_common()

2023-02-02T19:32:19+00:00

In the current code, there is only a basic syscall benchmark via
getppid, this is not enough. Introduce bench_syscall_common() so that we
can add more syscalls to benchmark.

This is preparation for later patch, no functionality change.

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1668052208-14047-3-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge tag 'parisc-for-6.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux

2022-12-20T14:43:53+00:00

Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
 "There is one noteable patch, which allows the parisc kernel to use the
  same MADV_xxx constants as the other architectures going forward. With
  that change only alpha has one entry left (MADV_DONTNEED is 6 vs 4 on
  others) which is different. To prevent an ABI breakage, a wrapper is
  included which translates old MADV values to the new ones, so existing
  userspace isn't affected. Reason for that patch is, that some
  applications wrongly used the standard MADV_xxx values even on some
  non-x86 platforms and as such those programs failed to run correctly
  on parisc (examples are qemu-user, tor browser and boringssl).

  Then the kgdb console and the LED code received some fixes, and some
  0-day warnings are now gone. Finally, the very last compile warning
  which was visible during a kernel build is now fixed too (in the vDSO
  code).

  The majority of the patches are tagged for stable series and in
  summary this patchset is quite small and drops more code than it adds:

Fixes:
   - Fix potential null-ptr-deref in start_task()
   - Fix kgdb console on serial port
   - Add missing FORCE prerequisites in Makefile
   - Drop PMD_SHIFT from calculation in pgtable.h

  Enhancements:
   - Implement a wrapper to align madvise() MADV_* constants with other
     architectures
   - If machine supports running MPE/XL, show the MPE model string

  Cleanups:
   - Drop duplicate kgdb console code
   - Indenting fixes in setup_cmdline()"

* tag 'parisc-for-6.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Show MPE/iX model string at bootup
  parisc: Add missing FORCE prerequisites in Makefile
  parisc: Move pdc_result struct to firmware.c
  parisc: Drop locking in pdc console code
  parisc: Drop duplicate kgdb_pdc console
  parisc: Fix locking in pdc_iodc_print() firmware call
  parisc: Drop PMD_SHIFT from calculation in pgtable.h
  parisc: Align parisc MADV_XXX constants with all other architectures
  parisc: led: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in start_task()
  parisc: Fix inconsistent indenting in setup_cmdline()

parisc: Align parisc MADV_XXX constants with all other architectures

2022-12-17T22:19:39+00:00

Adjust some MADV_XXX constants to be in sync what their values are on
all other platforms. There is currently no reason to have an own
numbering on parisc, but it requires workarounds in many userspace
sources (e.g. glibc, qemu, ...) - which are often forgotten and thus
introduce bugs and different behaviour on parisc.

A wrapper avoids an ABI breakage for existing userspace applications by
translating any old values to the new ones, so this change allows us to
move over all programs to the new ABI over time.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller