Currently we depend on output of 'perf record -e "sched:sched_switch"', to
check whether perf was built with libtraceevent support.
Instead, a more straightforward approach can be to check the build options,
using 'perf build --has libtraceevent', to check for libtraceevent support.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Gupta <adit...@linux.ibm.com>
---
tools/perf/tests/shell/test_task_analyzer.sh | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_task_analyzer.sh
b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_task_analyzer.sh
index 92d15154ba79..b4803e373fe5 100755
--- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_task_analyzer.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_task_analyzer.sh
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ find_str_or_fail() {
# check if perf is compiled with libtraceevent support
skip_no_probe_record_support() {
- perf version --build-options | grep -q " OFF .* HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT" &&
return 2
- return 0
+ perf build --has libtraceevent >/dev/null && return 0
+ return 2
}
prepare_perf_data() {
--
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