Re: [PATCH 2/7] perf test: Use skip in vmlinux kallsyms

[Ian Rogers]

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 10:01 AM John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 13/05/2022 05:05, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > Currently failures in reading vmlinux or kallsyms result in a test
> > failure. However, the failure is typically permission related.
>
> If the user requires root priviledges then should we just mention this
> would be a problem for this test?

Tbh, it wasn't clear to me and so I didn't add a reason for skipping.

Thanks,
Ian

> > Prefer to
> > flag these failures as skip.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers<irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks,
> John