linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] ftracetest: Fix hist unsupported result in hist selftests

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Message-ID: <20160524030235.GA5856@sejong>
Date:	Tue, 24 May 2016 12:02:35 +0900
From:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>,
	<linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ftracetest: Fix hist unsupported result in hist
 selftests

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:32:43PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2016 11:16:31 +0900
> Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Why not checking "hist" file then?
> 
> I guess that could be done too, but is there anything wrong with my
> current solution? Or is it just too hacky? How would one check if
> something exists in a file or not? Say, I want to detect if
> preemptirqsoff tracer exists or not, and that only happens if I do a
> grep of current_tracer (I have tests coming that will need to do that)?

There's nothing wrong with your approach IMHO.  But I think checking
existence of a file is clearer and consistent to other tests.

For the preemptirqsoff tracer case, it seems there's no other way to
check it simply.  It's not hacky to me grep-ing contents to check
availability of some option.

Thanks,
Namhyung