From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:18:31 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: perf test shell lbr: Avoid failures with perf event paranoia
X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=48314d20fe467d6653783cbf5536cb2fcc9bdd7c;p=users%2Fhch%2Fmisc.git

perf test shell lbr: Avoid failures with perf event paranoia

When not running as root and with higher perf event paranoia values
the perf record LBR tests could fail rather than skipping the
problematic tests.

Add the sensitivity to the test and confirm it passes with paranoia
values from -1 to 2.

Committer testing:

Testing with '$ perf test -vv lbr', i.e. as non root, and then comparing
the output shows the mentioned errors before this patch:

  acme@x1:~$ grep -m1 "model name" /proc/cpuinfo
  model name	: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1365U
  acme@x1:~$

Before:

 132: perf record LBR tests            : Skip

After:

 132: perf record LBR tests            : Ok

Fixes: 32559b99e0f59070 ("perf test: Add set of perf record LBR tests")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/record_lbr.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/record_lbr.sh
index 6fcb5e52b9b4..78a02e90ece1 100755
--- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/record_lbr.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/record_lbr.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 
 set -e
 
+ParanoidAndNotRoot() {
+  [ "$(id -u)" != 0 ] && [ "$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid)" -gt $1 ]
+}
+
 if [ ! -f /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/caps/branches ] &&
    [ ! -f /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu_core/caps/branches ]
 then
@@ -23,6 +27,7 @@ cleanup() {
 }
 
 trap_cleanup() {
+  echo "Unexpected signal in ${FUNCNAME[1]}"
   cleanup
   exit 1
 }
@@ -123,8 +128,11 @@ lbr_test "-j ind_call" "any indirect call" 2
 lbr_test "-j ind_jmp" "any indirect jump" 100
 lbr_test "-j call" "direct calls" 2
 lbr_test "-j ind_call,u" "any indirect user call" 100
-lbr_test "-a -b" "system wide any branch" 2
-lbr_test "-a -j any_call" "system wide any call" 2
+if ! ParanoidAndNotRoot 1
+then
+  lbr_test "-a -b" "system wide any branch" 2
+  lbr_test "-a -j any_call" "system wide any call" 2
+fi
 
 # Parallel
 parallel_lbr_test "-b" "parallel any branch" 100 &
@@ -141,10 +149,16 @@ parallel_lbr_test "-j call" "parallel direct calls" 100 &
 pid6=$!
 parallel_lbr_test "-j ind_call,u" "parallel any indirect user call" 100 &
 pid7=$!
-parallel_lbr_test "-a -b" "parallel system wide any branch" 100 &
-pid8=$!
-parallel_lbr_test "-a -j any_call" "parallel system wide any call" 100 &
-pid9=$!
+if ParanoidAndNotRoot 1
+then
+  pid8=
+  pid9=
+else
+  parallel_lbr_test "-a -b" "parallel system wide any branch" 100 &
+  pid8=$!
+  parallel_lbr_test "-a -j any_call" "parallel system wide any call" 100 &
+  pid9=$!
+fi
 
 for pid in $pid1 $pid2 $pid3 $pid4 $pid5 $pid6 $pid7 $pid8 $pid9
 do