The func_traceonoff_triggers.tc sometimes goes to fail on my board, Kunpeng-920. [root@localhost]# ./ftracetest ./test.d/ftrace/func_traceonoff_triggers.tc -l fail.log === Ftrace unit tests === [1] ftrace - test for function traceon/off triggers [FAIL] [2] (instance) ftrace - test for function traceon/off triggers [UNSUPPORTED] I look up the log, and it shows that the md5sum is different between csum1 and csum2. ++ cnt=611 ++ sleep .1 +++ cnt_trace +++ grep -v '^#' trace +++ wc -l ++ cnt2=611 ++ '[' 611 -ne 611 ']' +++ cat tracing_on ++ on=0 ++ '[' 0 '!=' 0 ']' +++ md5sum trace ++ csum1='76896aa74362fff66a6a5f3cf8a8a500 trace' ++ sleep .1 +++ md5sum trace ++ csum2='ee8625a21c058818fc26e45c1ed3f6de trace' ++ '[' '76896aa74362fff66a6a5f3cf8a8a500 trace' '!=' 'ee8625a21c058818fc26e45c1ed3f6de trace' ']' ++ fail 'Tracing file is still changing' ++ echo Tracing file is still changing Tracing file is still changing ++ exit_fail ++ exit 1 So I directly dump the trace file before md5sum, the diff shows that: [root@localhost]# diff trace_1.log trace_2.log -y --suppress-common-lines dockerd-12285 [036] d.... 18385.510290: sched_stat | <...>-12285 [036] d.... 18385.510290: sched_stat dockerd-12285 [036] d.... 18385.510291: sched_swit | <...>-12285 [036] d.... 18385.510291: sched_swit <...>-740 [044] d.... 18385.602859: sched_stat | kworker/44:1-740 [044] d.... 18385.602859: sched_stat <...>-740 [044] d.... 18385.602860: sched_swit | kworker/44:1-740 [044] d.... 18385.602860: sched_swit And we can see that <...> filed be filled with names. We can strip off the names there to fix that. After strip off the names: kworker/u257:0-12 [019] d..2. 2528.758910: sched_stat | -12 [019] d..2. 2528.758910: sched_stat_runtime: comm=k kworker/u257:0-12 [019] d..2. 2528.758912: sched_swit | -12 [019] d..2. 2528.758912: sched_switch: prev_comm=kw <idle>-0 [000] d.s5. 2528.762318: sched_waki | -0 [000] d.s5. 2528.762318: sched_waking: comm=sshd pi <idle>-0 [037] dNh2. 2528.762326: sched_wake | -0 [037] dNh2. 2528.762326: sched_wakeup: comm=sshd pi <idle>-0 [037] d..2. 2528.762334: sched_swit | -0 [037] d..2. 2528.762334: sched_switch: prev_comm=sw Fixes: d87b29179aa0 ("selftests: ftrace: Use md5sum to take less time of checking logs") Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yipeng Zou <zouyipeng@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- .../ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_traceonoff_triggers.tc | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_traceonoff_triggers.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_traceonoff_triggers.tc index aee22289536b..1b57771dbfdf 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_traceonoff_triggers.tc +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_traceonoff_triggers.tc @@ -90,9 +90,10 @@ if [ $on != "0" ]; then fail "Tracing is not off" fi -csum1=`md5sum trace` +# Cannot rely on names being around as they are only cached, strip them +csum1=`cat trace | sed -e 's/^ *[^ ]*\(-[0-9][0-9]*\)/\1/' | md5sum` sleep $SLEEP_TIME -csum2=`md5sum trace` +csum2=`cat trace | sed -e 's/^ *[^ ]*\(-[0-9][0-9]*\)/\1/' | md5sum` if [ "$csum1" != "$csum2" ]; then fail "Tracing file is still changing" -- 2.34.1