[Autotest PATCH - updated with current tree] KVM test: Add perfmon into the guest tests

[Autotest PATCH - updated with current tree] KVM test: Add perfmon into the guest tests

[Chen Cao]

perfmon2 API provides access to the hardware performance counters of
modern processors.

Dependency,
To compile the source code of the test, the following packages should
be installed,
        glibc-static-2.11.1-6.x86_64
        glibc-headers-2.11.1-6.x86_64
        glibc-common-2.11.1-6.x86_64
        glibc-devel-2.11.1-6.x86_64
        glibc-2.11.1-6.x86_64

Note,
1. libpfm uses the Performance Monitor Unit (PMU) on the processors,
but this unit is not provided by kvm currently, i.e. the test should
fail in kvm guests. And this test can be used as a reminder that kvm
still lack the PMU virtualization.
2. According to the README file of perfmon-tests-0.3, 2.6.24 or higer
Linux kernel (with perfmon v2.8 or higher) is needed to run the tests.

Signed-off-by: Chen Cao <kcao@redhat.com>
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 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/autotest_control/perfmon.control b/client/tests/kvm/autotest_control/perfmon.control
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d3f5190
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/tests/kvm/autotest_control/perfmon.control
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+TIME="SHORT"
+AUTHOR = "Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>"
+DOC = """
+This is a simple series of test for the perfmon2 API which
+provides access to the hardware performance counters of modern
+processors.
+
+Information about perfmon2 at:
+http://perfmon2.sf.net
+"""
+NAME = 'perfmon'
+TEST_CLASS = 'kernel'
+TEST_CATEGORY = 'Functional'
+TEST_TYPE = 'client'
+
+job.run_test('perfmon')
diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample b/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample
index 5349034..599e4c3 100644
--- a/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample
+++ b/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample
@@ -154,6 +154,8 @@ variants:
                 test_control_file = hwclock.control
             - rtc:
                 test_control_file = rtc.control
+            - perfmon:
+                test_control_file = perfmon.control
 
     - linux_s3:     install setup unattended_install
         type = linux_s3