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

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Oct 26 2022 - 10:15:15 EST


Em Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 10:26:35AM -0700, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> 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.

Thanks, applied to perf/core.

- Arnaldo


> 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
> --
> 2.38.0.135.g90850a2211-goog

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- Arnaldo