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diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_brstack.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_brstack.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+# Check branch stack sampling
+
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+# German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>, 2022
+
+# we need a C compiler to build the test programs
+# so bail if none is found
+if ! [ -x "$(command -v cc)" ]; then
+	echo "failed: no compiler, install gcc"
+	exit 2
+fi
+
+# skip the test if the hardware doesn't support branch stack sampling
+# and if the architecture doesn't support filter types: any,save_type,u
+if ! perf record -o- --no-buildid --branch-filter any,save_type,u -- true > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+	echo "skip: system doesn't support filter types: any,save_type,u"
+	exit 2
+fi
+
+TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/__perf_test.program.XXXXX)
+
+cleanup() {
+	rm -rf $TMPDIR
+}
+
+trap cleanup exit term int
+
+gen_test_program() {
+	# generate test program
+	cat << EOF > $1
+#define BENCH_RUNS 999999
+int cnt;
+void bar(void) {
+}			/* return */
+void foo(void) {
+	bar();		/* call */
+}			/* return */
+void bench(void) {
+  void (*foo_ind)(void) = foo;
+  if ((cnt++) % 3)	/* branch (cond) */
+    foo();		/* call */
+  bar();		/* call */
+  foo_ind();		/* call (ind) */
+}
+int main(void)
+{
+  int cnt = 0;
+  while (1) {
+    if ((cnt++) > BENCH_RUNS)
+      break;
+    bench();		/* call */
+  }			/* branch (uncond) */
+  return 0;
+}
+EOF
+}
+
+test_user_branches() {
+	echo "Testing user branch stack sampling"
+
+	gen_test_program "$TEMPDIR/program.c"
+	cc -fno-inline -g "$TEMPDIR/program.c" -o $TMPDIR/a.out
+
+	perf record -o $TMPDIR/perf.data --branch-filter any,save_type,u -- $TMPDIR/a.out > /dev/null 2>&1
+	perf script -i $TMPDIR/perf.data --fields brstacksym | xargs -n1 > $TMPDIR/perf.script
+
+	# example of branch entries:
+	# 	foo+0x14/bar+0x40/P/-/-/0/CALL
+
+	set -x
+	egrep -m1 "^bench\+[^ ]*/foo\+[^ ]*/IND_CALL$"	$TMPDIR/perf.script
+	egrep -m1 "^foo\+[^ ]*/bar\+[^ ]*/CALL$"	$TMPDIR/perf.script
+	egrep -m1 "^bench\+[^ ]*/foo\+[^ ]*/CALL$"	$TMPDIR/perf.script
+	egrep -m1 "^bench\+[^ ]*/bar\+[^ ]*/CALL$"	$TMPDIR/perf.script
+	egrep -m1 "^bar\+[^ ]*/foo\+[^ ]*/RET$"		$TMPDIR/perf.script
+	egrep -m1 "^foo\+[^ ]*/bench\+[^ ]*/RET$"	$TMPDIR/perf.script
+	egrep -m1 "^bench\+[^ ]*/bench\+[^ ]*/COND$"	$TMPDIR/perf.script
+	egrep -m1 "^main\+[^ ]*/main\+[^ ]*/UNCOND$"	$TMPDIR/perf.script
+	set +x
+
+	# some branch types are still not being tested:
+	# IND COND_CALL COND_RET SYSCALL SYSRET IRQ SERROR NO_TX
+}
+
+# first argument <arg0> is the argument passed to "--branch-stack <arg0>,save_type,u"
+# second argument are the expected branch types for the given filter
+test_filter() {
+	local filter=$1
+	local expect=$2
+
+	echo "Testing branch stack filtering permutation ($filter,$expect)"
+
+	gen_test_program "$TEMPDIR/program.c"
+	cc -fno-inline -g "$TEMPDIR/program.c" -o $TMPDIR/a.out
+
+	perf record -o $TMPDIR/perf.data --branch-filter $filter,save_type,u -- $TMPDIR/a.out > /dev/null 2>&1
+	perf script -i $TMPDIR/perf.data --fields brstack | xargs -n1 > $TMPDIR/perf.script
+
+	# fail if we find any branch type that doesn't match any of the expected ones
+	# also consider UNKNOWN branch types (-)
+	if egrep -vm1 "^[^ ]*/($expect|-|( *))$" $TMPDIR/perf.script; then
+		return 1
+	fi
+}
+
+set -e
+
+test_user_branches
+
+test_filter "any_call"	"CALL|IND_CALL|COND_CALL|SYSCALL|IRQ"
+test_filter "call"	"CALL|SYSCALL"
+test_filter "cond"	"COND"
+test_filter "any_ret"	"RET|COND_RET|SYSRET|ERET"
+
+test_filter "call,cond"		"CALL|SYSCALL|COND"
+test_filter "any_call,cond"		"CALL|IND_CALL|COND_CALL|IRQ|SYSCALL|COND"
+test_filter "cond,any_call,any_ret"	"COND|CALL|IND_CALL|COND_CALL|SYSCALL|IRQ|RET|COND_RET|SYSRET|ERET"