On 1/16/20 2:32 PM, Fenghua Yu wrote:
[Resend the v9 patch set to Shuah Khan and linux-kselftest mailing list. No code and commit message change.] With more and more resctrl features are being added by Intel, AMD and ARM, a test tool is becoming more and more useful to validate that both hardware and software functionalities work as expected. We introduce resctrl selftest to cover resctrl features on X86, AMD and ARM architectures. It first implements MBM (Memory Bandwidth Monitoring), MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation), L3 CAT (Cache Allocation Technology), and CQM (Cache QoS Monitoring) tests. We will enhance the selftest tool to include more functionality tests in the future. The tool has been tested on Intel RDT, AMD QoS and ARM MPAM and is in tools/testing/selftests/resctrl in order to have generic test code base for all architectures. The selftest tool we are introducing here provides a convenient tool which does automatic resctrl testing, is easily available in kernel tree, and covers Intel RDT, AMD QoS and ARM MPAM. There is an existing resctrl test suite 'intel_cmt_cat'. But its major purpose is to test Intel RDT hardware via writing and reading MSR registers. It does access resctrl file system; but the functionalities are very limited. And it doesn't support automatic test and a lot of manual verifications are involved.
Thanks for the series. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I will pull these in for 5.7. Couple of global comments and things to watch out for: - Are there checks to prevent this tool from compiling/running on architectures that don't support and/or exits gracefully? I didn't see arch checks in the Makefile. I am pulling them in and these can be fixed later. Sorry for the delay. thanks, -- Shuah
