Re: [PATCH v8 0/6] Some improvements of resctrl selftest

[Reinette Chatre]

Hi Shuah,

Could you please consider taking this series in via the 
linux-kselftest tree?

Thank you very much

Reinette

On 2/15/2023 12:32 AM, Shaopeng Tan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The aim of this patch series is to improve the resctrl selftest.
> Without these fixes, some unnecessary processing will be executed
> and test results will be confusing. 
> There is no behavior change in test themselves.
> 
> [patch 1] Make write_schemata() run to set up shemata with 100% allocation
> 	  on first run in MBM test.
> [patch 2] The MBA test result message is always output as "ok",
> 	  make output message to be "not ok" if MBA check result is failed.
> [patch 3] When a child process is created by fork(), the buffer of the 
> 	  parent process is also copied. Flush the buffer before
> 	  executing fork().
> [patch 4] An error occurs whether in parents process or child process,
> 	  the parents process always kills child process and runs
> 	  umount_resctrlfs(), and the child process always waits to be
> 	  killed by the parent process.
> [patch 5] If a signal received, to cleanup properly before exiting the
> 	  parent process, commonize the signal handler registered for 
> 	  CMT/MBM/MBA tests and reuse it in CAT, also unregister the 
> 	  signal handler at the end of each test.
> [patch 6] Before exiting each test CMT/CAT/MBM/MBA, clear test result 
> 	  files function cat/cmt/mbm/mba_test_cleanup() are called
> 	  twice. Delete once.
> 
> This patch series is based on Linux v6.2-rc7.
> 
> Difference from v7:
> [patch 4] 
>   - Fix commitlog.
> [patch 5]
>   - Fix commitlog.
> 
> Pervious versions of this series:
> [v1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220914015147.3071025-1-tan.shaopeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [v2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221005013933.1486054-1-tan.shaopeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [v3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221101094341.3383073-1-tan.shaopeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [v4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221117010541.1014481-1-tan.shaopeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [v5] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230111075802.3556803-1-tan.shaopeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [v6] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230131054655.396270-1-tan.shaopeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [v7] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230213062428.1721572-1-tan.shaopeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Shaopeng Tan (6):
>   selftests/resctrl: Fix set up schemata with 100% allocation on first
>     run in MBM test
>   selftests/resctrl: Return MBA check result and make it to output
>     message
>   selftests/resctrl: Flush stdout file buffer before executing fork()
>   selftests/resctrl: Cleanup properly when an error occurs in CAT test
>   selftests/resctrl: Commonize the signal handler register/unregister
>     for all tests
>   selftests/resctrl: Remove duplicate codes that clear each test result
>     file
> 
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cat_test.c    | 29 ++++----
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cmt_test.c    |  7 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c    | 14 ----
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c    | 23 +++----
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c    | 20 +++---
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h     |  2 +
>  .../testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c |  4 --
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_val.c | 67 ++++++++++++++-----
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c   |  5 +-
>  9 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
>