Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next] Improve BPF test stability (related to perf events and scheduling)

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On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 3:53 PM Mykola Lysenko <mykolal@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In send_signal, replace sleep with dummy cpu intensive computation
> to increase probability of child process being scheduled. Add few
> more asserts.
>
> In find_vma, reduce sample_freq as higher values may be rejected in
> some qemu setups, remove usleep and increase length of cpu intensive
> computation.
>
> In bpf_cookie, perf_link and perf_branches, reduce sample_freq as
> higher values may be rejected in some qemu setups
>
> Signed-off-by: Mykola Lysenko <mykolal@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/bpf_cookie.c       |  2 +-
>  .../testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/find_vma.c | 13 ++++++++++---
>  .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/perf_branches.c    |  4 ++--
>  .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/perf_link.c        |  2 +-
>  .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/send_signal.c      | 17 ++++++++++-------
>  .../selftests/bpf/progs/test_send_signal_kern.c |  2 +-
>  6 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/bpf_cookie.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/bpf_cookie.c
> index cd10df6cd0fc..0612e79a9281 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/bpf_cookie.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/bpf_cookie.c
> @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static void pe_subtest(struct test_bpf_cookie *skel)
>         attr.type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE;
>         attr.config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK;
>         attr.freq = 1;
> -       attr.sample_freq = 4000;
> +       attr.sample_freq = 1000;
>         pfd = syscall(__NR_perf_event_open, &attr, -1, 0, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC);
>         if (!ASSERT_GE(pfd, 0, "perf_fd"))
>                 goto cleanup;
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/find_vma.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/find_vma.c
> index b74b3c0c555a..7cf4feb6464c 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/find_vma.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/find_vma.c
> @@ -30,12 +30,20 @@ static int open_pe(void)
>         attr.type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE;
>         attr.config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES;
>         attr.freq = 1;
> -       attr.sample_freq = 4000;
> +       attr.sample_freq = 1000;

I think It's actually better to modify sysctl.
perf_event_max_sample_rate through test_progs, I had a patch do that
before, but Andrii didn't apply it. (I've forgotten why) , but this is
a recurring issue when running in VM in parallel mode.

>         pfd = syscall(__NR_perf_event_open, &attr, 0, -1, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC);
>
>         return pfd >= 0 ? pfd : -errno;
>  }



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