On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:06 AM Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Alexei observed that test_progs send_signal may fail if run
> with command line "./test_progs" and the tests will pass
> if just run "./test_progs -n 40".
>
> I observed similar issue with nmi subtest failure
> and added a delay 100 us in Commit ab8b7f0cb358
> ("tools/bpf: Add self tests for bpf_send_signal_thread()")
> and the problem is gone for me. But the issue still exists
> in Alexei's testing environment.
>
> The current code uses sample_freq = 50 (50 events/second), which
> may not be enough. But if the sample_freq value is larger than
> sysctl kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate, the perf_event_open
> syscall will fail.
>
> This patch changed nmi perf testing to use sample_period = 1,
> which means trying to sampling every event. This seems fixing
> the issue.
>
> Fixes: ab8b7f0cb358 ("tools/bpf: Add self tests for bpf_send_signal_thread()")
> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>
> ---
Good not to have to rely on arbitrary timeout!
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx>
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/send_signal.c | 6 +-----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/send_signal.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/send_signal.c
> index d4cedd86c424..504abb7bfb95 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/send_signal.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/send_signal.c
> @@ -76,9 +76,6 @@ static void test_send_signal_common(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
> if (CHECK(!skel, "skel_open_and_load", "skeleton open_and_load failed\n"))
> goto skel_open_load_failure;
>
> - /* add a delay for child thread to ramp up */
> - usleep(100);
> -
> if (!attr) {
> err = test_send_signal_kern__attach(skel);
> if (CHECK(err, "skel_attach", "skeleton attach failed\n")) {
> @@ -155,8 +152,7 @@ static void test_send_signal_perf(bool signal_thread)
> static void test_send_signal_nmi(bool signal_thread)
> {
> struct perf_event_attr attr = {
> - .sample_freq = 50,
> - .freq = 1,
> + .sample_period = 1,
> .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
> .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
> };
> --
> 2.17.1
>
