The tests were passing but without testing and were printing the following: $ ./perf test -v 90 90: perf all PMU test : --- start --- test child forked, pid 51650 Testing cpu/branch-instructions/ ./tests/shell/stat_all_pmu.sh: 10: [: Performance counter stats for 'true': 137,307 cpu/branch-instructions/ 0.001686672 seconds time elapsed 0.001376000 seconds user 0.000000000 seconds sys: unexpected operator Changing the regexes to a grep works in sh and prints this: $ ./perf test -v 90 90: perf all PMU test : --- start --- test child forked, pid 60186 [...] Testing tlb_flush.stlb_any test child finished with 0 ---- end ---- perf all PMU test: Ok Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_pmu.sh | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_pmu.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_pmu.sh index 2de7fd0394fd..b30dba455f36 100755 --- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_pmu.sh +++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_pmu.sh @@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ set -e for p in $(perf list --raw-dump pmu); do echo "Testing $p" result=$(perf stat -e "$p" true 2>&1) - if [[ ! "$result" =~ "$p" ]] && [[ ! "$result" =~ "<not supported>" ]]; then + if ! echo "$result" | grep -q "$p" && ! echo "$result" | grep -q "<not supported>" ; then # We failed to see the event and it is supported. Possibly the workload was # too small so retry with something longer. result=$(perf stat -e "$p" perf bench internals synthesize 2>&1) - if [[ ! "$result" =~ "$p" ]]; then + if ! echo "$result" | grep -q "$p" ; then echo "Event '$p' not printed in:" echo "$result" exit 1 -- 2.28.0