[PATCH] perf: fix perf test case 14 result reporting

From: Thomas Richter
Date: Thu Jun 01 2017 - 08:35:04 EST


Command perf test -v 14 (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 14
14: 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 Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/tests/attr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/attr.c b/tools/perf/tests/attr.c
index 88dc51f..131b510 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/attr.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/attr.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int run_dir(const char *d, const char *perf)
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)
--
2.9.3