[PATCH v2 9/9] perf: Remove x86 specific rdpmc test

Jiri Olsa jolsa at redhat.com
Mon Aug 31 05:11:13 EDT 2020


On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 02:56:14PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> Now that we have a common libperf based userspace counter read test
> with the same functionality as the x86 specific rdpmc test, let's remove
> it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> ---
> This one is optional. On the plus side, it eliminates a copy of the read
> loop. The main downside I see is loosing the ability to test in 'perf test'.
> 
> 
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/include/arch-tests.h |   1 -
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/Build          |   1 -
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/arch-tests.c   |   4 -
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/rdpmc.c        | 182 -----------------------
>  4 files changed, 188 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/rdpmc.c
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/include/arch-tests.h b/tools/perf/arch/x86/include/arch-tests.h
> index c41c5affe4be..d9c32ba0cdac 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/include/arch-tests.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/include/arch-tests.h
> @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
>  struct test;
> 
>  /* Tests */
> -int test__rdpmc(struct test *test __maybe_unused, int subtest);

we don't currently run libperf tests as part of perf test suite,
so before we do that, I rather not remove the tests..

feel free to add the code that runs libperf tests within 'perf test'
command ;-)

thanks,
jirka




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