perf bench: Add basic syscall benchmark

The usefulness of having a standard way of testing syscall performance
has come up from time to time[0]. Furthermore, some of our testing
machinery (such as 'mmtests') already makes use of a simplified version
of the microbenchmark. This patch mainly takes the same idea to measure
syscall throughput compatible with 'perf-bench' via getppid(2), yet
without any of the additional template stuff from Ingo's version (based
on numa.c). The code is identical to what mmtests uses.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160201074156.GA27156@gmail.com/

Committer notes:

Add mising stdlib.h and unistd.h to get the prototypes for exit() and
getppid().

Committer testing:

  $ perf bench
  Usage:
  	perf bench [<common options>] <collection> <benchmark> [<options>]

          # List of all available benchmark collections:

           sched: Scheduler and IPC benchmarks
         syscall: System call benchmarks
             mem: Memory access benchmarks
            numa: NUMA scheduling and MM benchmarks
           futex: Futex stressing benchmarks
           epoll: Epoll stressing benchmarks
       internals: Perf-internals benchmarks
             all: All benchmarks

  $
  $ perf bench syscall

          # List of available benchmarks for collection 'syscall':

           basic: Benchmark for basic getppid(2) calls
             all: Run all syscall benchmarks

  $ perf bench syscall basic
  # Running 'syscall/basic' benchmark:
  # Executed 10000000 getppid() calls
       Total time: 3.679 [sec]

         0.367957 usecs/op
          2717708 ops/sec
  $ perf bench syscall all
  # Running syscall/basic benchmark...
  # Executed 10000000 getppid() calls
       Total time: 3.644 [sec]

         0.364456 usecs/op
          2743815 ops/sec

  $

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190308181747.l36zqz2avtivrr3c@linux-r8p5
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/bench.h b/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
index 61cae4966cae..49bc8ed3042a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ extern struct timeval bench__start, bench__end, bench__runtime;
 int bench_numa(int argc, const char **argv);
 int bench_sched_messaging(int argc, const char **argv);
 int bench_sched_pipe(int argc, const char **argv);
+int bench_syscall_basic(int argc, const char **argv);
 int bench_mem_memcpy(int argc, const char **argv);
 int bench_mem_memset(int argc, const char **argv);
 int bench_futex_hash(int argc, const char **argv);