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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:54:27 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] tools lib api fs: Remove debugfs, tracefs and
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Em Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 03:50:12PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:44:56AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 
> SNIP
> 
> > New stuff normally comes with new 'perf test' entries, Intel PT borrowed
> > the kernel x86 instruction decoder: added a 'perf test' entry, AFAIK
> > there was no similar test for it in the kernel proper, IIRC Masami plans
> > to do it.
> > 
> > The attr one you can look at:
> > 
> > [acme@zoo linux]$ ls -la tools/perf/tests/attr/test-* | wc -l
> > 33
> >  
> > > AFAIK we have: 
> > >   - 'perf test' for perf specific functionality
> > >   - 'make -f tests/make' for building
> > >   - build framework tests
> > > 
> > > I 'try' to run those before sending anything out, but we dont have
> > > automated thing that would run it any time Arnaldo push new perf/core.
> > 
> > Well, I do run it in multiple distros, like RHEL5, RHEL6 and RHEL7
> > besides Fedora 21.
> > 
> > We're getting used to tools/{lib,include}/ so this happened, but
> > otherwise I don't feel like there are that many problems cropping up as
> > you seem to think :-\
> > 
> > Of course, in these days of CI, I'd love if someone would hook 'make -C
> > tools/perf build-test' and 'perf test' somewhere to be run for every
> > changeset.
> 
> yep, thats what I meant.. having this hooked up to your perf/core
> would be big help

Till then, I'll turn more machines on here at my lab to do do it
manually and add an entry for:

 make -C tools/vm/

In that 'make -C tools/perf build-test'

- Arnaldo