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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
	james.clark@arm.com, leo.yan@linaro.org,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] perf test cs-etm: Add end-to-end tests for CoreSight decoding
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 17:04:47 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yovo33Qh7eE7pTn1@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220523144952.364370-1-german.gomez@arm.com>

Em Mon, May 23, 2022 at 03:49:51PM +0100, German Gomez escreveu:
> Hi
> 
> While discussing running more tests for CoreSight, we thought it might
> be a good idea to upstream some EndToEnd tests for CoreSight decoding in
> order to lock down the behaviour. I am sending this as RFC to get some
> feedback from the community first.
> 
> The test relies on pre-geneated perf.data files that are downloaded
> during the test. I'm not sure it's a good idea to commit those files to
> the Linux repository, so they would have to live in an external source
> and be downloaded during the test.

That is ok, but please cache it locally, so that from the second 'perf
test' run onwards one doesn´t have to incur in the download delay and
also be able to run the tests while not connected.

- Arnaldo
 
> For this RFC, the files are stored in a Github repository [1]. As an
> idea, I think we could store them in a new repo in the ARM-software
> namespace. Any hosting suggestions are very welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> German
> 
> [1] https://github.com/ARM-software/data/tree/984cde8fb0bb22591e284826a80b338bb79c3655/perf/coresight
> 
> German Gomez (1):
>   perf test cs-etm: Add end-to-end tests for CoreSight decoding
> 
>  tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/arm_auxtrace.sh    | 21 +++++++
>  .../tests/shell/test_arm_coresight_decoder.sh | 57 +++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 78 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/arm_auxtrace.sh
>  create mode 100755 tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight_decoder.sh
> 
> -- 
> 2.25.1

-- 

- Arnaldo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-23 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-23 14:49 [RFC PATCH 0/1] perf test cs-etm: Add end-to-end tests for CoreSight decoding German Gomez
2022-05-23 14:49 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] " German Gomez
2022-05-23 20:04 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2022-05-23 21:29   ` [RFC PATCH 0/1] " Ian Rogers
2022-05-24 13:45     ` German Gomez

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