perf test stat+json_output: Write JSON output to a file

Write the JSON output to a file, then sanity check this output. This
avoids problems with debug/warning/error output corrupting the file
format.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Richter <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_json_output_lint.py b/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_json_output_lint.py
index 97598d14e532..61f3059ca54b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_json_output_lint.py
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_json_output_lint.py
@@ -17,9 +17,10 @@ ap.add_argument('--per-thread', action='store_true')
 ap.add_argument('--per-die', action='store_true')
 ap.add_argument('--per-node', action='store_true')
 ap.add_argument('--per-socket', action='store_true')
+ap.add_argument('--file', type=argparse.FileType('r'), default=sys.stdin)
 args = ap.parse_args()
 
-Lines = sys.stdin.readlines()
+Lines = args.file.readlines()
 
 def isfloat(num):
   try: