Re: [PATCH 5.7 000/243] 5.7.10-rc2 review

From: Naresh Kamboju
Date: Thu Jul 23 2020 - 11:09:29 EST


On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 18:19, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > Results from Linaroâs test farm.
> > Regressions detected on arm and arm64 (Juno-r2)
> > We are bisecting this problem and get back to you soon.
> >
> > perf test cases failed
> > perf:
> > * Track-with-sched_switch
> > * perf_record_test
> > * perf_report_test
> >
> > Bad case:
> > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB perf-lava-test.data ]
> >
> > when it was pass it prints number of samples like below,
> > Good case:
> > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.004 MB perf-lava-test.data (46 samples) ]
> >
> > steps to reproduce:
> > # perf record -e cycles -o perf-lava-test.data ls -a 2>&1 | tee perf-record.log
> >
> > Link to full test:
> > https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-5.7-oe/build/v5.7.9-244-g7d2e5723ce4a/testrun/2969482/suite/perf/test/perf_record_test/log
> >
> > test case:
> > https://github.com/Linaro/test-definitions/blob/master/automated/linux/perf/perf.sh
>
> Any hint by bisection as to what this problem is caused by?

Not yet found the bad commit.
We are working on it.

- Naresh