[PATCHSET 0/8] perf test: Improve perf record tests (v2)

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Thu Oct 20 2022 - 13:26:53 EST


Hello,

This patchset improves the perf record tests to check more cases so that it
can find problems early. The motivation was a failure per-thread mmap with
multi-threaded targets which Adrian is working on the fix.

Changes in v2)
* fix shellcheck issues
* drop unsupported --per-thread and --threads combination
* do not use initial delay (-D option); instead it runs the target
and wait for it separately using the recent waiting.sh library
* add Adrian's Reviewed-by tags

I added a custom test program and more combinations like system-wide and
command line workload (in per-process mode) testing with multi-threaded
recording mode.

Currently it succeeds every tests when running as root!

$ sudo ./perf test -v 91
91: perf record tests :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 108975
Build a test program
Basic --per-thread mode test
Basic --per-thread mode test [Success]
Register capture test
Register capture test [Success]
Basic --system-wide mode test
Basic --system-wide mode test [Success]
Basic target workload test
Basic target workload test [Success]
test child finished with 0
---- end ----
perf record tests: Ok

You can find it in 'perf/record-test-v2' branch in

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/namhyung/linux-perf.git

Thanks,
Namhyung


Namhyung Kim (8):
perf test: Do not use instructions:u explicitly
perf test: Fix shellcheck issues in the record test
perf test: Use a test program in perf record tests
perf test: Wait for a new thread when testing --per-thread record
perf test: Add system-wide mode in perf record tests
perf test: Add target workload test in perf record tests
perf test: Test record with --threads option
perf test: Do not set TEST_SKIP for record subtests

tools/perf/tests/shell/record.sh | 180 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 158 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)


base-commit: a3a365655a28f12f07eddf4f3fd596987b175e1d
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2.38.0.135.g90850a2211-goog