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authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>2023-09-29 23:02:06 -0700
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2023-10-04 22:28:07 -0700
commit0ddce121b038c553d6ec103f3b9fc399f99945e9 (patch)
tree6ebabb024002076689d61e5f388daeb6bf8a20ed /tools/perf/tests
parentbe7a4caa7c45bd4b0a39cdb260905b52a87c8688 (diff)
perf test: Avoid system wide when not privileged
Switch the test program to sleep that makes more sense for system wide events. Only enable system wide when root or not paranoid. This avoids failures under some testing conditions like ARM cloud. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230930060206.2353141-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/tests')
-rwxr-xr-xtools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_metricgroups.sh16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_metricgroups.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_metricgroups.sh
index cb35e488809a..f3e305649e2c 100755
--- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_metricgroups.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_metricgroups.sh
@@ -4,9 +4,21 @@
set -e
-for m in $(perf list --raw-dump metricgroups); do
+function ParanoidAndNotRoot()
+{
+ [ "$(id -u)" != 0 ] && [ "$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid)" -gt $1 ]
+}
+
+system_wide_flag="-a"
+if ParanoidAndNotRoot 0
+then
+ system_wide_flag=""
+fi
+
+for m in $(perf list --raw-dump metricgroups)
+do
echo "Testing $m"
- perf stat -M "$m" -a true
+ perf stat -M "$m" $system_wide_flag sleep 0.01
done
exit 0