linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf arm-spe: Test memory samples

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Date:   Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:37:51 +0800
From:   Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
To:     German Gomez <german.gomez@....com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        James Clark <james.clark@....com>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf arm-spe: Test memory samples

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 06:17:18PM +0100, German Gomez wrote:
> 
> On 13/04/2022 02:02, Leo Yan wrote:
> > Add a new test to verify the Arm SPE synthesized memory samples with
> > 'perf mem report' command.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
> 
> Reviewed-by: German Gomez <german.gomez@....com>

Thanks for reviewing.

> Thanks for the patch.
> 
> There are some tests for perf_event_attr fields. We added one for SPE
> recently [1], but it's not checking the sample_type attribute yet.
> 
> We could update it from our side and send another patch, to test the
> DATA_SRC bit is not missing.

Agreed, it's better to update the patch for checking DATA_SRC bit and
resend it.  Thanks!

Leo

> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220126160710.32983-1-german.gomez@arm.com/