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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/attr.py (renamed from tools/perf/tests/attr.py)18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/attr.py b/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/attr.py
index e890c261ad26..3db9a7d78715 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/attr.py
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/attr.py
@@ -246,6 +246,23 @@ class Test(object):
return False
return True
+ def restore_sample_rate(self, value=10000):
+ try:
+ # Check value of sample_rate
+ with open("/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate", "r") as fIn:
+ curr_value = fIn.readline()
+ # If too low restore to reasonable value
+ if not curr_value or int(curr_value) < int(value):
+ with open("/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate", "w") as fOut:
+ fOut.write(str(value))
+
+ except IOError as e:
+ log.warning("couldn't restore sample_rate value: I/O error %s" % e)
+ except ValueError as e:
+ log.warning("couldn't restore sample_rate value: Value error %s" % e)
+ except TypeError as e:
+ log.warning("couldn't restore sample_rate value: Type error %s" % e)
+
def load_events(self, path, events):
parser_event = configparser.ConfigParser()
parser_event.read(path)
@@ -283,6 +300,7 @@ class Test(object):
if self.skip_test_kernel_until():
raise Notest(self, "new kernel skip")
+ self.restore_sample_rate()
cmd = "PERF_TEST_ATTR=%s %s %s -o %s/perf.data %s" % (tempdir,
self.perf, self.command, tempdir, self.args)
ret = os.WEXITSTATUS(os.system(cmd))