[PATCH 2/9] rtla/tests: Add get_workload_pids() helper

From: Tomas Glozar

Date: Thu Apr 23 2026 - 09:10:23 EST


RTLA runtime tests that check workload processes (currently the test
case "verify -P/--priority" of timerlat.t and "verify the --priority/-P
param" of osnoise.t) use "pgrep timerlatu/" or "pgrep osnoise/"
respectively to identify the workload.

Make them more robust by adding a get_workload_pids() helper that
finds the main rtla process and returns the PIDs of all siblings other
than the test script itself, plus all child processes of kthreadd that
have the osnoise/timerlat kthread pattern comm.

This filters out any spurious processes not related to the running test
that happen to have "timerlatu/" or "osnoise/" in their command, for
example, a user grepping the same names at the time of the running of
the test.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/tracing/rtla/tests/osnoise.t | 2 +-
tools/tracing/rtla/tests/scripts/check-priority.sh | 8 ++++----
.../rtla/tests/scripts/lib/get_workload_pids.sh | 11 +++++++++++
tools/tracing/rtla/tests/timerlat.t | 2 +-
4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/tracing/rtla/tests/scripts/lib/get_workload_pids.sh

diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/osnoise.t b/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/osnoise.t
index ce3a448b1f87..ed6ff0cc3329 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/osnoise.t
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/osnoise.t
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ check "verify help page" \
check_top_hist "verify help page" \
"osnoise TOOL --help" 0 "rtla osnoise"
check_top_q_hist "verify the --priority/-P param" \
- "osnoise TOOL -P F:1 -c 0 -r 900000 -d 10s -S 1 --on-threshold shell,command=\"tests/scripts/check-priority.sh osnoise/ SCHED_FIFO 1\"" \
+ "osnoise TOOL -P F:1 -c 0 -r 900000 -d 10s -S 1 --on-threshold shell,command=\"tests/scripts/check-priority.sh SCHED_FIFO 1\"" \
2 "Priorities are set correctly"
check_top_q_hist "verify the --stop/-s param" \
"osnoise TOOL -s 30 -T 1" 2 "osnoise hit stop tracing"
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/scripts/check-priority.sh b/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/scripts/check-priority.sh
index 79b702a34a96..b51d5232a868 100755
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/scripts/check-priority.sh
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/scripts/check-priority.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
#!/bin/bash
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-pids="$(pgrep ^$1)" || exit 1
-for pid in $pids
+. "$(dirname $0)/lib/get_workload_pids.sh"
+for pid in $(get_workload_pids)
do
- chrt -p $pid | cut -d ':' -f 2 | head -n1 | grep "^ $2\$" >/dev/null
- chrt -p $pid | cut -d ':' -f 2 | tail -n1 | grep "^ $3\$" >/dev/null
+ chrt -p $pid | cut -d ':' -f 2 | head -n1 | grep "^ $1\$" >/dev/null
+ chrt -p $pid | cut -d ':' -f 2 | tail -n1 | grep "^ $2\$" >/dev/null
done && echo "Priorities are set correctly"
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/scripts/lib/get_workload_pids.sh b/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/scripts/lib/get_workload_pids.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8aff98cd2c1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/scripts/lib/get_workload_pids.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+get_workload_pids() {
+ local shell_pid=$$
+ local rtla_pid=$(ps -o ppid= $shell_pid)
+
+ # kernel threads
+ pgrep -P $(pgrep ^kthreadd$) -f '^(osnoise|timerlat)/[0-9]+$'
+ # user threads
+ pgrep -P $rtla_pid | grep -v "^$shell_pid$"
+}
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/timerlat.t b/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/timerlat.t
index d7944710a859..765dffd9d42a 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/timerlat.t
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/timerlat.t
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ check_top_hist "verify help page" \
check_top_hist "verify -s/--stack" \
"timerlat TOOL -s 3 -T 10 -t" 2 "Blocking thread stack trace"
check_top_hist "verify -P/--priority" \
- "timerlat TOOL -P F:1 -c 0 -d 10s -T 1 --on-threshold shell,command=\"tests/scripts/check-priority.sh timerlatu/ SCHED_FIFO 1\"" \
+ "timerlat TOOL -P F:1 -c 0 -d 10s -T 1 --on-threshold shell,command=\"tests/scripts/check-priority.sh SCHED_FIFO 1\"" \
2 "Priorities are set correctly"
check_top_hist "test in nanoseconds" \
"timerlat TOOL -i 2 -c 0 -n -d 10s" 2 "ns"
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