Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] perf report: Add latency and parallelism profiling

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Thu Feb 06 2025 - 13:52:45 EST


On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 19:30, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
> > We traditionally didn't do it, but in general test coverage
> > of perf report is too low, so I would recommend to add some simple
> > test case in the perf test scripts.
>
> What of this is testable within the current testing framework?
> Also how do I run tests? I failed to figure it out.

Often just having a test that ensure a command doesn't segfault is
progress :-) The shell tests Andi mentions are here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools-next.git/tree/tools/perf/tests/shell?h=perf-tools-next
There's no explicit `perf report` test there but maybe the annotate,
diff or record tests could give you some ideas.

Thanks,
Ian