Re: misc oprofile-tests updates

On 03/30/2016 05:26 PM, Will Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Oprofile devs,
> 
> A handful of changes to the oprofile-tests suite, for consideration. 
> 
> I stumbled across an issue while running the tests, dug in a bit, and came
> out with this short series of patches to improve things.  Most of the
> changes are cosmetic, but a couple will affect the suite behavior, most
> notably that more of the tests will be runnable as a normal user, and we
> will successfully run more tests as root when the kptr_restrict mode is
> in restricted mode, where we previously would have punted.  (Additional
> detail in the patch descriptions.)
> 
> I've tested these changes against an older (0.9.8) install, as well as
> against latest (1.2.0git), no new issues in my testing.
> 
> As a user:
> before:  49/49 tests passed.
> after:   74/78 to 78/78 tests passed.  (depending on the value of kptr_restrict)
> 
> As root:
> No notable changes.  My latest run showed
> after:  113/117 to 117/117 tests passed.  (depending on kptr_restrict)
> 
> Thanks,
> -Will
> 


Hi Will,

Thanks for the patches. I looked over the patches, tried the patches out and they do improve the results. 
They have been applied to the upstream oprofile-testsuite.

-Will



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