This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selftests: net: fib_nexthops: Wait before checking reported idle time
to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
selftests-net-fib_nexthops-wait-before-checking-repo.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 6c342c056f8739114b1f9071f01cfbd449200a4c
Author: Petr Machata <petrm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Sep 24 12:04:27 2021 +0200
selftests: net: fib_nexthops: Wait before checking reported idle time
[ Upstream commit b69c99463d414cc263411462d52f25205657e9af ]
The purpose of this test is to verify that after a short activity passes,
the reported time is reasonable: not zero (which could be reported by
mistake), and not something outrageous (which would be indicative of an
issue in used units).
However, the idle time is reported in units of clock_t, or hundredths of
second. If the initial sequence of commands is very quick, it is possible
that the idle time is reported as just flat-out zero. When this test was
recently enabled in our nightly regression, we started seeing spurious
failures for exactly this reason.
Therefore buffer the delay leading up to the test with a sleep, to make
sure there is no legitimate way of reporting 0.
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/fib_nexthops.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/fib_nexthops.sh
index 0d293391e9a44..b5a69ad191b07 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/fib_nexthops.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/fib_nexthops.sh
@@ -2078,6 +2078,7 @@ basic_res()
"id 101 index 0 nhid 2 id 101 index 1 nhid 2 id 101 index 2 nhid 1 id 101 index 3 nhid 1"
log_test $? 0 "Dump all nexthop buckets in a group"
+ sleep 0.1
(( $($IP -j nexthop bucket list id 101 |
jq '[.[] | select(.bucket.idle_time > 0 and
.bucket.idle_time < 2)] | length') == 4 ))
