Basic coverage of perl script support from `perf script`. This is
disabled by default and so the test will most normally skip.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
 tools/perf/tests/shell/script_perl.sh | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 102 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 tools/perf/tests/shell/script_perl.sh

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/script_perl.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/script_perl.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..b6d65b6fbda1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/script_perl.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# perf script perl tests
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+set -e
+
+# set PERF_EXEC_PATH to find scripts in the source directory
+perfdir=$(dirname "$0")/../..
+if [ -e "$perfdir/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util" ]; then
+  export PERF_EXEC_PATH=$perfdir
+fi
+
+
+perfdata=$(mktemp /tmp/__perf_test_script_perl.perf.data.XXXXX)
+generated_script=$(mktemp /tmp/__perf_test_script.XXXXX.pl)
+
+cleanup() {
+  rm -f "${perfdata}"
+  rm -f "${generated_script}"
+  trap - EXIT TERM INT
+}
+
+trap_cleanup() {
+  echo "Unexpected signal in ${FUNCNAME[1]}"
+  cleanup
+  exit 1
+}
+trap trap_cleanup TERM INT
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+check_perl_support() {
+	if perf check feature -q libperl; then
+		return 0
+	fi
+	echo "perf script perl test [Skipped: no libperl support]"
+	return 2
+}
+
+test_script() {
+	local event_name=$1
+	local expected_output=$2
+	local record_opts=$3
+
+	echo "Testing event: $event_name"
+
+	# Try to record. If this fails, it might be permissions or lack of support.
+	# We return 2 to indicate "skip this event" rather than "fail test".
+	if ! perf record -o "${perfdata}" -e "$event_name" $record_opts -- perf test -w thloop > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+		echo "perf script perl test [Skipped: failed to record $event_name]"
+		return 2
+	fi
+
+	echo "Generating perl script..."
+	if ! perf script -i "${perfdata}" -g "${generated_script}"; then
+		echo "perf script perl test [Failed: script generation for $event_name]"
+		return 1
+	fi
+
+	if [ ! -f "${generated_script}" ]; then
+		echo "perf script perl test [Failed: script not generated for $event_name]"
+		return 1
+	fi
+
+	echo "Executing perl script..."
+	output=$(perf script -i "${perfdata}" -s "${generated_script}" 2>&1)
+
+	if echo "$output" | grep -q "$expected_output"; then
+		echo "perf script perl test [Success: $event_name triggered $expected_output]"
+		return 0
+	else
+		echo "perf script perl test [Failed: $event_name did not trigger $expected_output]"
+		echo "Output was:"
+		echo "$output" | head -n 20
+		return 1
+	fi
+}
+
+check_perl_support || exit 2
+
+# Try tracepoint first
+test_script "sched:sched_switch" "sched::sched_switch" "-c 1" && res=0 || res=$?
+
+if [ $res -eq 0 ]; then
+	exit 0
+elif [ $res -eq 1 ]; then
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+# If tracepoint skipped (res=2), try task-clock
+# For generic events like task-clock, the generated script uses process_event()
+# which dumps data using Data::Dumper. We check for "$VAR1" which is standard Dumper output.
+test_script "task-clock" "\$VAR1" "-c 100" && res=0 || res=$?
+
+if [ $res -eq 0 ]; then
+	exit 0
+elif [ $res -eq 1 ]; then
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+# If both skipped
+echo "perf script perl test [Skipped: Could not record tracepoint or task-clock]"
+exit 2
-- 
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