Commit 35697c12 authored by Yonghong Song's avatar Yonghong Song Committed by Alexei Starovoitov

selftests/bpf: Fix test_progs send_signal flakiness with nmi mode

Alexei observed that test_progs send_signal may fail if run
with command line "./test_progs" and the tests will pass
if just run "./test_progs -n 40".

I observed similar issue with nmi subtest failure
and added a delay 100 us in Commit ab8b7f0c
("tools/bpf: Add self tests for bpf_send_signal_thread()")
and the problem is gone for me. But the issue still exists
in Alexei's testing environment.

The current code uses sample_freq = 50 (50 events/second), which
may not be enough. But if the sample_freq value is larger than
sysctl kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate, the perf_event_open
syscall will fail.

This patch changed nmi perf testing to use sample_period = 1,
which means trying to sampling every event. This seems fixing
the issue.

Fixes: ab8b7f0c ("tools/bpf: Add self tests for bpf_send_signal_thread()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarYonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200116174004.1522812-1-yhs@fb.com
parent 858e284f
......@@ -76,9 +76,6 @@ static void test_send_signal_common(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
if (CHECK(!skel, "skel_open_and_load", "skeleton open_and_load failed\n"))
goto skel_open_load_failure;
/* add a delay for child thread to ramp up */
usleep(100);
if (!attr) {
err = test_send_signal_kern__attach(skel);
if (CHECK(err, "skel_attach", "skeleton attach failed\n")) {
......@@ -155,8 +152,7 @@ static void test_send_signal_perf(bool signal_thread)
static void test_send_signal_nmi(bool signal_thread)
{
struct perf_event_attr attr = {
.sample_freq = 50,
.freq = 1,
.sample_period = 1,
.type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
.config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
};
......
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