Re: [PATCH] perf tests: Fix coresight `perf test` failure.

From: James Clark
Date: Thu Apr 28 2022 - 12:14:31 EST




On 28/04/2022 16:19, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> Currently the `perf test` always fails the coresight test like:
>
> 89: Check Arm CoreSight trace data recording and synthesized samples: FAILED!
>
> That is because the test_arm_coresight.sh is attempting to SIGINT the
> parent but is using $$ rather than $PPID and it sigint's itself when
> run under the perf test framework. Since this is done in a trap clause
> it ends up returning a non zero return. Since $PPID is a bash ism and
> not all distros are linking /bin/sh to bash, the alternative
> parent pid lookups are uglier than just dropping the kill, and its
> not strictly needed, lets pick the simple solution and drop the sigint.
>
> Fixes: 133fe2e617e4 ("perf tests: Improve temp file cleanup in test_arm_coresight.sh")
> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh
> index 6de53b7ef5ff..e4cb4f1806ff 100755
> --- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh
> +++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh
> @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ cleanup_files()
> rm -f ${file}
> rm -f "${perfdata}.old"
> trap - exit term int
> - kill -2 $$
> exit $glb_err
> }
>

Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>