When stdout output from the selftests tool 'test_maps' gets redirected
into e.g file or pipe, then the output lines increase a lot (from 21
to 33949 lines). This is caused by the printf that happens before the
fork() call, and there are user-space buffered printf data that seems
to be duplicated into the forked process.
To fix this fflush() stdout before the fork loop in __run_parallel().
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_maps.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_maps.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_maps.c
index 754cf611723e..0d92ebcb335d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_maps.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_maps.c
@@ -1274,6 +1274,8 @@ static void __run_parallel(unsigned int tasks,
pid_t pid[tasks];
int i;
+ fflush(stdout);
+
for (i = 0; i < tasks; i++) {
pid[i] = fork();
if (pid[i] == 0) {
