perf test task_exit: No need for a cycles event to check if we get an PERF_RECORD_EXIT
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: Ian 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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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