Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add Scripts for Finding Top 25 Executed Functions

[Eric Blake]

On 6/16/20 6:12 PM, Ahmed Karaman wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> As a part of the TCG Continous Benchmarking project for GSoC this
> year, detailed reports discussing different performance measurement
> methodologies and analysis results will be sent here on the mailing
> list.
>
> The project's first report is currently being revised and will be
> posted on the mailing list in the next few days.
> A section in this report will deal with measuring the top 25 executed
> functions when running QEMU. It includes two Python scripts that
> automatically perform this task.
>
> This series adds these two scripts to a new performance directory
> created under the scripts directory. It also adds a new
> "Miscellaneous" section to the end of the MAINTAINERS file with a
> "Performance Tools and Tests" subsection.
>
> Best regards,
> Ahmed Karaman
>
> Ahmed Karaman (3):
>    MAINTAINERS: Add 'Miscellaneous' section
>    scripts/performance: Add callgrind_top_25.py script
>    scripts/performance: Add perf_top_25.py script
>
>   MAINTAINERS                             |  7 ++
>   scripts/performance/callgrind_top_25.py | 95 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   scripts/performance/perf_top_25.py      | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 184 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 scripts/performance/callgrind_top_25.py
>   create mode 100644 scripts/performance/perf_top_25.py

Are the new scripts supposed to have executable permissions, or are they 
always invoked as 'python path/to/script.py' where the executable bit is 
less important?

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