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    perf test task_exit: No need for a cycles event to check if we get an PERF_RECORD_EXIT · 2480232c
    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
    The intent of this test is to check we get a PERF_RECORD_EXIT as asked
    for by setting perf_event_attr.task=1.
    
    When the test was written we didn't had the "dummy" event so we went
    with the default event, "cycles".
    
    There were reports of this test failing sometimes, one of these reports
    was with a PREEMPT_RT_FULL, but I noticed it failing sometimes with an
    aarch64 Firefly board.
    
    In the kernel the call to perf_event_task_output(), that generates the
    PERF_RECORD_EXIT may fail when there is not enough memory in the ring
    buffer, if the ring buffer is paused, etc.
    
    So switch to using the "dummy" event to use the ring buffer just for
    what the test was designed for, avoiding uneeded PERF_RECORD_SAMPLEs.
    Acked-by: default avatarIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>
    Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
    Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZLGXmMuNRpx1ubFm@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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