4 files changed, 78 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/Build b/tools/perf/bench/Build
index 042827385c87..768e408757a0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/Build
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ perf-y += futex-lock-pi.o
 perf-y += epoll-wait.o
 perf-y += epoll-ctl.o
 perf-y += synthesize.o
+perf-y += kallsyms-parse.o
 
 perf-$(CONFIG_X86_64) += mem-memcpy-x86-64-lib.o
 perf-$(CONFIG_X86_64) += mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/bench.h b/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
index 4d669c803237..61cae4966cae 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ int bench_futex_lock_pi(int argc, const char **argv);
 int bench_epoll_wait(int argc, const char **argv);
 int bench_epoll_ctl(int argc, const char **argv);
 int bench_synthesize(int argc, const char **argv);
+int bench_kallsyms_parse(int argc, const char **argv);
 
 #define BENCH_FORMAT_DEFAULT_STR	"default"
 #define BENCH_FORMAT_DEFAULT		0
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/kallsyms-parse.c b/tools/perf/bench/kallsyms-parse.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2b0d0f980ae9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/kallsyms-parse.c
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Benchmark of /proc/kallsyms parsing.
+ *
+ * Copyright 2020 Google LLC.
+ */
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include "bench.h"
+#include "../util/stat.h"
+#include <linux/time64.h>
+#include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
+#include <symbol/kallsyms.h>
+
+static unsigned int iterations = 100;
+
+static const struct option options[] = {
+	OPT_UINTEGER('i', "iterations", &iterations,
+		"Number of iterations used to compute average"),
+	OPT_END()
+};
+
+static const char *const bench_usage[] = {
+	"perf bench internals kallsyms-parse <options>",
+	NULL
+};
+
+static int bench_process_symbol(void *arg __maybe_unused,
+				const char *name __maybe_unused,
+				char type __maybe_unused,
+				u64 start __maybe_unused)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int do_kallsyms_parse(void)
+{
+	struct timeval start, end, diff;
+	u64 runtime_us;
+	unsigned int i;
+	double time_average, time_stddev;
+	int err;
+	struct stats time_stats;
+
+	init_stats(&time_stats);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
+		gettimeofday(&start, NULL);
+		err = kallsyms__parse("/proc/kallsyms", NULL,
+				bench_process_symbol);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
+
+		gettimeofday(&end, NULL);
+		timersub(&end, &start, &diff);
+		runtime_us = diff.tv_sec * USEC_PER_SEC + diff.tv_usec;
+		update_stats(&time_stats, runtime_us);
+	}
+
+	time_average = avg_stats(&time_stats) / USEC_PER_MSEC;
+	time_stddev = stddev_stats(&time_stats) / USEC_PER_MSEC;
+	printf("  Average kallsyms__parse took: %.3f ms (+- %.3f ms)\n",
+		time_average, time_stddev);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int bench_kallsyms_parse(int argc, const char **argv)
+{
+	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, bench_usage, 0);
+	if (argc) {
+		usage_with_options(bench_usage, options);
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
+
+	return do_kallsyms_parse();
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
index 11c79a8d85d6..083273209c88 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ static struct bench epoll_benchmarks[] = {
 
 static struct bench internals_benchmarks[] = {
 	{ "synthesize", "Benchmark perf event synthesis",	bench_synthesize	},
+	{ "kallsyms-parse", "Benchmark kallsyms parsing",	bench_kallsyms_parse	},
 	{ NULL,		NULL,					NULL			}
 };