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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>, Kyle Huey <khuey@kylehuey.com>,
	Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf test: Test FASYNC with watermark wakeups.
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:17:24 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZdjhNG1T6j6miiYg@x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP-5=fXzidk9hLm5bek3q1crds4mEjdgpq=s0YCSzLCj1GtvzQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 10:01:31AM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 9:35 AM Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> wrote:
> > I think perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree here. This seems like a
> > ton of work just to write a regression test. Maybe I should be doing
> > this in tools/testing/selftests instead?
 
> The problem is detecting support for the feature in the kernel. The
> BTF approach isn't that bad, a couple of finds, but I think in this
> case there isn't anything to be found to indicate the feature is
> present. I like the perf test as perf tests are a form of
> documentation. Perhaps just using TEST_SKIP here (rather than
> TEST_FAIL) is best and the skip_reason can be a presumed lack of
> kernel support.

But going forward the general expectation is that it should pass as
the feature _is_ present, isn't it?

- Arnaldo

      reply	other threads:[~2024-02-23 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-21 17:52 [PATCH 1/2] perf/ring_buffer: Trigger FASYNC signals for watermark wakeups Kyle Huey
2024-02-21 17:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf test: Test FASYNC with " Kyle Huey
2024-02-21 18:35   ` Ian Rogers
2024-02-22 17:55     ` Kyle Huey
2024-02-22 18:32       ` Ian Rogers
2024-02-22 18:41         ` Kyle Huey
2024-02-22 19:44           ` Ian Rogers
2024-02-22 19:54       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2024-02-23 17:35         ` Kyle Huey
2024-02-23 17:59           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2024-02-23 21:43             ` Robert O'Callahan
2024-02-24  2:27               ` Namhyung Kim
2024-02-24 15:58               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2024-02-23 18:01           ` Ian Rogers
2024-02-23 18:17             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]

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