On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 2:21 PM Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote:
> > +
> > +# Run perf repcord and report
> > +os.system('sudo perf record {} {} 2> /dev/null \
> > + && sudo perf report --stdio > tmp.perf.data'
> > + .format(qemu_path, executable))
>
> Why sudo?
This is the default requirement by perf. You can modify the
kernel.perf_event_paranoid setting to run without root privileges.
> Also redirecting just stderr? why?
Perf, as well as Valgrind, print their output on stderr not stdout.
> I think you could separate the steps (as well as use the subprocess
> api).
Noted!
> Again os.unlink()
Noted!
