Re: [PATCH v8 13/13] perf test: Add relevant documentation about CoreSight testing

From: Leo Yan
Date: Thu Sep 08 2022 - 08:27:44 EST


On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 10:59:55AM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:

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> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

Thanks for reporting!

> >> Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-perf.rst:102: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
>
> vim +102 Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-perf.rst
>
> 96
> 97 CoreSight / ASM Pure Loop
> 98 CoreSight / Memcpy 16k 10 Threads
> 99 CoreSight / Thread Loop 10 Threads - Check TID
> 100 etc.
> 101
> > 102 These perf record tests will not run if the tool binaries do not exist
> 103 in tests/shell/coresight/*/ and will be skipped. If you do not have
> 104 CoreSight support in hardware then either do not build perf with
> 105 CoreSight support or remove these binaries in order to not have these
> 106 tests fail and have them skip instead.
> 107

Hi Carsten,

Just note that I reproduced the warning at my side; after I used the
escape for '*' like below, the warning can be dismissed.

tests/shell/coresight/\*/

Thanks,
Leo