Re: [PATCH] selftests:intel_pstate: fixes typical crash of a testing script for Intel P-State driver

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Tue May 08 2018 - 16:21:31 EST


On 05/04/2018 01:47 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 04/29/2018 01:12 PM, Jeffrin Jose T wrote:
>> Testing script for Intel P-State driver crashes during
>> the run. this patch fixes that crash and produce typical results.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeffrin Jose T <jeffrin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>> tools/testing/selftests/intel_pstate/run.sh | 7 +++++--
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/intel_pstate/run.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/intel_pstate/run.sh
>> index c670359becc6..cd32aca8806f 100755
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/intel_pstate/run.sh
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/intel_pstate/run.sh
>> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
>> # and the test will error out in those cases. The result.X file can be checked
>> # for consistency and modified to remove the extra MHz values. The result.X
>> # files can be re-evaluated by setting EVALUATE_ONLY to 1 below.
>> +#set -xv
>>
>> EVALUATE_ONLY=0
>>
>> @@ -101,12 +102,13 @@ cpupower frequency-set -g powersave --max=${max_freq}MHz >& /dev/null
>> echo "Target Actual Difference MSR(0x199) max_perf_pct"
>> for freq in `seq $max_freq -100 $min_freq`
>> do
>> - result_freq=$(cat /tmp/result.${freq} | grep "cpu MHz" | awk ' { print $4 } ' | awk -F "." ' { print $1 } ')
>> + result_freq=$(cat /tmp/result.${freq} | grep "cpu MHz" \
>> | awk '{print $4}' | awk -F "." '{print $1}')
>> + result_freq=$(echo $result_freq | head -n1 | cut -d " " -f1)
>> msr=$(cat /tmp/result.${freq} | grep "msr" | awk ' { print $3 } ')
>> max_perf_pct=$(cat /tmp/result.${freq} | grep "max_perf_pct" | awk ' { print $2 } ' )
>> - if [ $result_freq -eq $freq ]; then
>> + if (( "$result_freq" == "$freq" ))
>> + then
>> echo " $freq $result_freq 0 $msr $(($max_perf_pct*3300))"
>> else
>> echo " $freq $result_freq $(($result_freq-$freq)) $msr $(($max_perf_pct*$max_freq))"
>>
>
> Thanks. I will get this into 4.17-rc5
>
> -- Shuah
>

This patch didn't apply. In any case Daniel Diaz sent in a patch a coupld of weeks ago
which did apply and fixes the same problem.

I applied Daniel's patch to linux-kselftest fixes for 4.17-rc5

https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linux-kselftest-mirror/2018-April/000858.html

thank you both.

-- Shuah