[PATCH V4 3/3] tools/perf: Fix parallel-perf python script to replace new python syntax ":=" usage

Athira Rajeev atrajeev at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sun Jun 23 16:48:50 AEST 2024


perf test "perf script tests" fails as below in systems
with python 3.6

	File "/home/athira/linux/tools/perf/tests/shell/../../scripts/python/parallel-perf.py", line 442
	if line := p.stdout.readline():
             ^
	SyntaxError: invalid syntax
	--- Cleaning up ---
	---- end(-1) ----
	92: perf script tests: FAILED!

This happens because ":=" is a new syntax that assigns values
to variables as part of a larger expression. This is introduced
from python 3.8 and hence fails in setup with python 3.6
Address this by splitting the large expression and check the
value in two steps:
Previous line: if line := p.stdout.readline():
Current change:
	line = p.stdout.readline()
	if line:

With patch

	./perf test "perf script tests"
	 93: perf script tests:  Ok

Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter at intel.com>
---
Changelog:
v1 -> v2
Added "Acked-by" from Adrian

 tools/perf/scripts/python/parallel-perf.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/scripts/python/parallel-perf.py b/tools/perf/scripts/python/parallel-perf.py
index 21f32ec5ed46..be85fd7f6632 100755
--- a/tools/perf/scripts/python/parallel-perf.py
+++ b/tools/perf/scripts/python/parallel-perf.py
@@ -439,7 +439,8 @@ def ProcessCommandOutputLines(cmd, per_cpu, fn, *x):
 	pat = re.compile(r"\s*\[[0-9]+\]")
 	p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
 	while True:
-		if line := p.stdout.readline():
+		line = p.stdout.readline()
+		if line:
 			line = line.decode("utf-8")
 			if pat.match(line):
 				line = line.split()
-- 
2.35.3



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