Re: [PATCH v5 06/19] perf test cs-etm: Replace unroll loop thread with deterministic decode test

[Leo Yan]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 03:40:11PM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> Testing a long sequence without branches seems like it would be better
> as a decoder unit test, and this test doesn't test decoding either, so
> it's not clear what bugs this is trying to catch.
> 
> The new deterministic workload has somewhat long sequences when built
> unoptimized, and we can always increase them later if we want to. But
> now we test that decoding always gives the same result for the same
> sequence of code which we've never had before.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxx>