Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/2] perf test: Update branch sample parttern for cs-etm

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Nov 10 2020 - 13:19:37 EST


Em Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:08:29AM -0700, Mathieu Poirier escreveu:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 02:34:17PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
> > Since the commit 943b69ac1884 ("perf parse-events: Set exclude_guest=1
> > for user-space counting"), 'exclude_guest=1' is set for user-space
> > counting; and the branch sample's modifier has been altered, the sample
> > event name has been changed from "branches:u:" to "branches:uH:", which
> > gives out info for "user-space and host counting".
> >
> > But the cs-etm testing's regular expression cannot match the updated
> > branch sample event and leads to test failure.
> >
> > This patch updates the branch sample parttern by using a more flexible
>
> s/parttern/pattern

I'll fix it and add stable@ to the CC list, thanks

> > expression '.*' to match branch sample's modifiers, so that allows the
> > testing to work as expected.
> >
> > Fixes: 943b69ac1884 ("perf parse-events: Set exclude_guest=1 for user-space counting")
> > Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Here too I would CC stable. With the above:
>
> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh
> > index 59d847d4981d..18fde2f179cd 100755
> > --- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh
> > +++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh
> > @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ perf_script_branch_samples() {
> > # touch 6512 1 branches:u: ffffb22082e0 strcmp+0xa0 (/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.27.so)
> > # touch 6512 1 branches:u: ffffb2208320 strcmp+0xe0 (/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ld-2.27.so)
> > perf script -F,-time -i ${perfdata} | \
> > - egrep " +$1 +[0-9]+ .* +branches:([u|k]:)? +"
> > + egrep " +$1 +[0-9]+ .* +branches:(.*:)? +"
> > }
> >
> > perf_report_branch_samples() {
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >

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- Arnaldo