Re: [PATCH 01/11] perf tests parse-events: Add intel_pt parse test

From: Kim Phillips
Date: Thu May 17 2018 - 17:57:42 EST


On Thu, 17 May 2018 22:58:11 +0200
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 05:15:53PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > So parse_state->error == NULL, Jiri, ideas?
>
> yep, we don't use it in tests.. and when trying intel_pt on
> system without that pmu, the parse_events_add_pmu fails
> and store the error to NULL.. we should check on that err pointer
>
> wrt to the test itself, how about we add callback
> to check if the test is valid before we run it,
> something like below
> jirka

That diff makes this test pass again on x86 without an intel_pt, and
on Arm32/64 (the intel_pt test gets skipped on those machines):

Tested-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Kim