[tip: timers/core] selftests: timers: nsleep-lat: Check all calls to clock_nanosleep() and clock_gettime()

From: tip-bot2 for Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)

Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 12:38:41 EST


The following commit has been merged into the timers/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 4fa377c19e111c539a530a8200996b911ceff9ff
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/4fa377c19e111c539a530a8200996b911ceff9ff
Author: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:04:48 +02:00
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:11:21 +02:00

selftests: timers: nsleep-lat: Check all calls to clock_nanosleep() and clock_gettime()

Both these functions can fail.

The first calls to those functions are already checked and result in
KSFT_SKIP.

If they start failing afterwards unexpectedly, report a hard error.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803-auxclock-nanosleep-prep-v2-17-910cbd485390@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
tools/testing/selftests/timers/nsleep-lat.c | 23 +++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/nsleep-lat.c b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/nsleep-lat.c
index 266ca0c..5de0051 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/nsleep-lat.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/nsleep-lat.c
@@ -65,10 +65,16 @@ int nanosleep_lat_test(int clockid, long long ns)
count = 10;

/* First check relative latency */
- clock_gettime(clockid, &start);
- for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
- clock_nanosleep(clockid, 0, &target, NULL);
- clock_gettime(clockid, &end);
+ if (clock_gettime(clockid, &start))
+ return KSFT_FAIL;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+ if (clock_nanosleep(clockid, 0, &target, NULL))
+ return KSFT_FAIL;
+ }
+
+ if (clock_gettime(clockid, &end))
+ return KSFT_FAIL;

if (((timespec_sub(start, end)/count)-ns) > UNRESONABLE_LATENCY) {
ksft_print_msg("Large rel latency: %lld ns :", (timespec_sub(start, end)/count)-ns);
@@ -77,10 +83,13 @@ int nanosleep_lat_test(int clockid, long long ns)

/* Next check absolute latency */
for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
- clock_gettime(clockid, &start);
+ if (clock_gettime(clockid, &start))
+ return KSFT_FAIL;
target = timespec_add(start, ns);
- clock_nanosleep(clockid, TIMER_ABSTIME, &target, NULL);
- clock_gettime(clockid, &end);
+ if (clock_nanosleep(clockid, TIMER_ABSTIME, &target, NULL))
+ return KSFT_FAIL;
+ if (clock_gettime(clockid, &end))
+ return KSFT_FAIL;
latency += timespec_sub(target, end);
}