perf tests: Fix data symbol test with LTO builds

With LTO builds, although regular builds could also see this as
all the code is in one file, the datasym workload can realize the
buf1.reserved data is never accessed. The compiler moves the
variable to bss and only keeps the data1 and data2 parts as
separate variables. This causes the symbol check to fail in the
test. Make the variable volatile to disable the more aggressive
optimization. Rename the variable to make which buf1 in perf is
being referred to.

Before:

  $ perf test -vv "data symbol"
  126: Test data symbol:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 299808
  perf does not have symbol 'buf1'
  perf is missing symbols - skipping test
  ---- end(-2) ----
  126: Test data symbol                                                : Skip
  $ nm perf|grep buf1
  0000000000a5fa40 b buf1.0
  0000000000a5fa48 b buf1.1

After:

  $ nm perf|grep buf1
  0000000000a53a00 d buf1
  $ perf test -vv "data symbol"126: Test data symbol:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 302166
   a53a00-a53a39 l buf1
  perf does have symbol 'buf1'
  Recording workload...
  Waiting for "perf record has started" message
  OK
  Cleaning up files...
  ---- end(0) ----
  126: Test data symbol                                                : Ok

Fixes: 3dfc01fe9d12 ("perf test: Add 'datasym' test workload")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226230109.314580-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/workloads/datasym.c b/tools/perf/tests/workloads/datasym.c
index 8ddb2aa6a049..1d0b7d64e1ba 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/workloads/datasym.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/workloads/datasym.c
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ typedef struct _buf {
 	char data2;
 } buf __attribute__((aligned(64)));
 
-static buf buf1 = {
+/* volatile to try to avoid the compiler seeing reserved as unused. */
+static volatile buf workload_datasym_buf1 = {
 	/* to have this in the data section */
 	.reserved[0] = 1,
 };
@@ -34,8 +35,8 @@ static int datasym(int argc, const char **argv)
 	alarm(sec);
 
 	while (!done) {
-		buf1.data1++;
-		if (buf1.data1 == 123) {
+		workload_datasym_buf1.data1++;
+		if (workload_datasym_buf1.data1 == 123) {
 			/*
 			 * Add some 'noise' in the loop to work around errata
 			 * 1694299 on Arm N1.
@@ -49,9 +50,9 @@ static int datasym(int argc, const char **argv)
 			 * longer a continuous repeating pattern that interacts
 			 * badly with the bias.
 			 */
-			buf1.data1++;
+			workload_datasym_buf1.data1++;
 		}
-		buf1.data2 += buf1.data1;
+		workload_datasym_buf1.data2 += workload_datasym_buf1.data1;
 	}
 	return 0;
 }