Re: [PATCH 05/12] perf test: Add 'leafloop' test workload

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Nov 17 2022 - 12:24:54 EST


Em Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 09:16:58AM -0800, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 8:15 AM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Em Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 01:06:16PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > > Em Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 03:38:47PM -0800, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> > > > The leafloop workload is to run an infinite loop in the test_leaf
> > > > function. This is needed for the ARM fp callgraph test to verify if it
> > > > gets the correct callchains.
> > > >
> > > > $ perf test -w leafloop
> > >
> > > On fedora:36
> > >
> > > In file included from /usr/include/bits/libc-header-start.h:33,
> > > from /usr/include/stdlib.h:26,
> > > from tests/workloads/leafloop.c:2:
> > > /usr/include/features.h:412:4: error: #warning _FORTIFY_SOURCE requires compiling with optimization (-O) [-Werror=cpp]
> > > 412 | # warning _FORTIFY_SOURCE requires compiling with optimization (-O)
> > > | ^~~~~~~
> > > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> > > make[5]: *** [/home/acme/git/perf/tools/build/Makefile.build:96: /tmp/build/perf/tests/workloads/leafloop.o] Error 1
> > > make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > >
> > > I'll try removing the _FORTIFY_SOURCE
> >
> > Works after I added this to datasym.c, leafloop.c and brstack.c:
>
> Is there a reason we are compiling without -O ? Perhaps we can filter

I assumed so as Namhyung added it, perhaps he is just carrying it from
the pre-existing shell tests?

I wonder its to have a predictable binary output that the test expects
when doing things like hardware tracing? As it come from the coresight
tests, IIRC.

- Arnaldo

> setting _FORTIFY_SOURCE so that it depends on -O being enabled.

> Thanks,
> Ian
>
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/workloads/leafloop.c b/tools/perf/tests/workloads/leafloop.c
> > index 1bf5cc97649b0e23..5d72c001320e3013 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/tests/workloads/leafloop.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/tests/workloads/leafloop.c
> > @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
> > /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> > +#undef _FORTIFY_SOURCE
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> > #include <linux/compiler.h>
> > #include "../tests.h"

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- Arnaldo