Re: [Report] rtla: Failed to set runtime and/or period

[Muhammad Usama Anjum]

Thanks you Daniel for replying!

On 9/13/24 6:47 PM, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 06:58:02PM GMT, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
>> We are running rt-tests on KernelCI. I'm looking at failures and I found
>> out that rtla osnoise and rtla timerlat are failing. We have just
>> enabled these tests and they are failing from day one.
> 
> Thanks a lot on working on this!
> 
>> The first thing I fixed in my local setup is to sync the version of rtla
>> with that of the running kernel from the source. It resolves the Tracer
>> timerlat not found!" error as we had installed the older rtla package
>> from Debian on CI.
> 
> There is some dependency between kernel version and the rtla tool suite.
> I suppose there is a window of version which you can differ but I
> suppose the Debian packaged version is way too old for recent kernels.
> 
>> I'll update it. Is the version of rtla dependent on
>> the exact kernel version or any recent rtla version is acceptable?
> 
> I have to figure this out. It could be that we need to build/provide
> matching rtla versions to the kernel. In theory the API should be stable
> etc but I suspect the APIs got broken (not on purpose) in the early
> days. Anyway, we have to figure this out as we can't ask Daniel sadly.
> 
>> The other errors are persistent:
>>
>> ➜  sudo ./rtla osnoise hist -r 900000
>> Failed to set runtime and/or period
>> Could not apply config
> 
> This works on my Tumbleweed kernel (pretty much a vanila kernel)
> 6.10.9-1-default with the matching rtla version 6.10.9.
> 
> What version do you use?
I'll report back the version.

> 
>> I thought maybe some argument are wrong. I ran the example from man page:
>>
>> ➜  sudo ./rtla osnoise hist -P F:1 -c 0-11 -r 900000 -d 1M -b 10 -E 25
>> Failed to apply CPUs config
>> Could not apply config
> 
> Same here. This works on my local kernel.
> 
>> Is there some configuration which is missing for running rtla? Please
>> let me know.
> 
> Are these
> 
>     CONFIG_OSNOISE_TRACER
>     CONFIG_TIMERLAT_TRACER
> 
> config option enabled in your kernel?
I'd missed these configurations. I'm trying with them now. I think this
is the root cause. I'll test with them. Hopefully problem would be gone
after it. Otherwise I'll look into installing the matching rtla binary
as well.

> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> 

-- 
BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum