Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/2] perf test: Update branch sample parttern for cs-etm

From: Leo Yan
Date: Tue Nov 10 2020 - 22:05:05 EST


On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 03:19:29PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:08:29AM -0700, Mathieu Poirier escreveu:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 02:34:17PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
> > > Since the commit 943b69ac1884 ("perf parse-events: Set exclude_guest=1
> > > for user-space counting"), 'exclude_guest=1' is set for user-space
> > > counting; and the branch sample's modifier has been altered, the sample
> > > event name has been changed from "branches:u:" to "branches:uH:", which
> > > gives out info for "user-space and host counting".
> > >
> > > But the cs-etm testing's regular expression cannot match the updated
> > > branch sample event and leads to test failure.
> > >
> > > This patch updates the branch sample parttern by using a more flexible
> >
> > s/parttern/pattern
>
> I'll fix it and add stable@ to the CC list, thanks

Thanks, Arnaldo and Mathieu.

Will take care for sending stable list in next time.

> > > expression '.*' to match branch sample's modifiers, so that allows the
> > > testing to work as expected.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 943b69ac1884 ("perf parse-events: Set exclude_guest=1 for user-space counting")
> > > Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > Here too I would CC stable. With the above:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > >
> > > diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh
> > > index 59d847d4981d..18fde2f179cd 100755
> > > --- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh
> > > +++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh
> > > @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ perf_script_branch_samples() {
> > > # touch 6512 1 branches:u: ffffb22082e0 strcmp+0xa0 (/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.27.so)
> > > # touch 6512 1 branches:u: ffffb2208320 strcmp+0xe0 (/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.27.so)
> > > perf script -F,-time -i ${perfdata} | \
> > > - egrep " +$1 +[0-9]+ .* +branches:([u|k]:)? +"
> > > + egrep " +$1 +[0-9]+ .* +branches:(.*:)? +"
> > > }
> > >
> > > perf_report_branch_samples() {
> > > --
> > > 2.17.1
> > >
>
> --
>
> - Arnaldo