linux-kernel - Re: Perf tests for hw events

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Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:11:02 +0000
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Vince Weaver <vince@...ter.net>,
	Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Kanaka Juvva <kanaka.d.juvva@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Perf tests for hw events

On Thu, 22 Jan, at 09:59:52AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 
> At some point 'perf test' should grow infrastructure to specify what is
> required for a test so that it auto-skips those, possibly not even
> bothering the user telling something can't be tested. Right now for
> things like tests that requires finding a vmlinux, if it doesn't find
> it, it will just print "Skipped", etc.

Yeah, that makes sense. I'll take a look at that.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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