perf tests: Add kcore to the object code reading test
authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Wed, 7 Aug 2013 11:38:53 +0000 (14:38 +0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 7 Aug 2013 20:35:34 +0000 (17:35 -0300)
commit7a77bc2c0d2726a7fc9e6b91b36f984c3e377008
tree7cd77b4e8acec51e14985881430aceeea03cd6b2
parent82e75d00adc5bde3cf98f11e937eed6127163969
perf tests: Add kcore to the object code reading test

Make the "object code reading" test attempt to read from kcore.

The test uses objdump which struggles with kcore. i.e.  doesn't always
work, sometimes takes a long time.  The test has been made to work
around those issues.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375875537-4509-10-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c