This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf test attr: Fix ignored test case result
to the 4.9-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:
perf-test-attr-fix-ignored-test-case-result.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Dec 6 17:39:55 CET 2017
From: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:12:09 +0200
Subject: perf test attr: Fix ignored test case result
From: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 22905582f6dd4bbd0c370fe5732c607452010c04 ]
Command perf test -v 16 (Setup struct perf_event_attr test) always
reports success even if the test case fails. It works correctly if you
also specify -F (for don't fork).
root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf test -v 16
15: Setup struct perf_event_attr :
--- start ---
running './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay'
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB /tmp/tmp4E1h7R/perf.data
(1 samples) ]
expected task=0, got 1
expected precise_ip=0, got 3
expected wakeup_events=1, got 0
FAILED './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay' - match failure
test child finished with 0
---- end ----
Setup struct perf_event_attr: Ok
The reason for the wrong error reporting is the return value of the
system() library call. It is called in run_dir() file tests/attr.c and
returns the exit status, in above case 0xff00.
This value is given as parameter to the exit() function which can only
handle values 0-0xff.
The child process terminates with exit value of 0 and the parent does
not detect any error.
This patch corrects the error reporting and prints the correct test
result.
Signed-off-by: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LPU-Reference: 20170913081209.39570-2-tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rdube6rfcjsr1nzue72c7lqn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/tests/attr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/perf/tests/attr.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/attr.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int run_dir(const char *d, const
snprintf(cmd, 3*PATH_MAX, PYTHON " %s/attr.py -d %s/attr/ -p %s %.*s",
d, d, perf, vcnt, v);
- return system(cmd);
+ return system(cmd) ? TEST_FAIL : TEST_OK;
}
int test__attr(int subtest __maybe_unused)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/perf-test-attr-fix-ignored-test-case-result.patch