[PATCH] perf test: Fix test_arm_coresight.sh failures on Juno

From: James Clark
Date: Wed Oct 05 2022 - 10:05:31 EST


This test commonly fails on Arm Juno because the instruction interval
is large enough to miss generating any samples for Perf in system-wide
mode.

Fix this by lowering the interval until a comfortable number of Perf
instructions are generated. The test is still quick to run because only
a small amount of trace is gathered.

Before:

sudo ./perf test coresight -vvv
...
Recording trace with system wide mode
Looking at perf.data file for dumping branch samples:
Looking at perf.data file for reporting branch samples:
Looking at perf.data file for instruction samples:
CoreSight system wide testing: FAIL
...

After:

sudo ./perf test coresight -vvv
...
Recording trace with system wide mode
Looking at perf.data file for dumping branch samples:
Looking at perf.data file for reporting branch samples:
Looking at perf.data file for instruction samples:
CoreSight system wide testing: PASS
...

Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh
index e4cb4f1806ff..daad786cf48d 100755
--- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ perf_report_instruction_samples() {
# 68.12% touch libc-2.27.so [.] _dl_addr
# 5.80% touch libc-2.27.so [.] getenv
# 4.35% touch ld-2.27.so [.] _dl_fixup
- perf report --itrace=i1000i --stdio -i ${perfdata} 2>&1 | \
+ perf report --itrace=i20i --stdio -i ${perfdata} 2>&1 | \
egrep " +[0-9]+\.[0-9]+% +$1" > /dev/null 2>&1
}

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