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

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> On Mar 8, 2022, at 12:19 PM, sunyucong@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 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.

I thought about this. But why to do it if sample_freq = 1000 is enough for our tests to function?

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




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