Re: misc oprofile-tests updates

On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 14:55 -0400, William Cohen wrote:
> 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.

Awesome, thanks! :-)

Thanks,
-Will


> 
> -Will
> 
> 



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