Re: [PATCH for 5.1 3/3] rseq/selftests: Adapt number of threads to the number of detected cpus

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>]

----- On Apr 19, 2019, at 6:38 AM, Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org wrote:

> * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> 
>> On smaller systems, running a test with 200 threads can take a long
>> time on machines with smaller number of CPUs.
>> 
>> Detect the number of online cpus at test runtime, and multiply that
>> by 6 to have 6 rseq threads per cpu preempting each other.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
>> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
>> Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>
>> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
>> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
>> Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
>> Cc: Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com>
>> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
>> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
>> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
>> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
>> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>> Cc: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com>
>> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>> ---
>>  tools/testing/selftests/rseq/run_param_test.sh | 7 +++++--
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/run_param_test.sh
>> b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/run_param_test.sh
>> index 3acd6d75ff9f..e426304fd4a0 100755
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/run_param_test.sh
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/run_param_test.sh
>> @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
>>  #!/bin/bash
>>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ or MIT
>>  
>> +NR_CPUS=`grep '^processor' /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l`
>> +
>>  EXTRA_ARGS=${@}
>>  
>>  OLDIFS="$IFS"
>> @@ -28,15 +30,16 @@ IFS="$OLDIFS"
>>  
>>  REPS=1000
>>  SLOW_REPS=100
>> +NR_THREADS=$((6*${NR_CPUS}))
>>  
>>  function do_tests()
>>  {
>>  	local i=0
>>  	while [ "$i" -lt "${#TEST_LIST[@]}" ]; do
>>  		echo "Running test ${TEST_NAME[$i]}"
>> -		./param_test ${TEST_LIST[$i]} -r ${REPS} ${@} ${EXTRA_ARGS} || exit 1
>> +		./param_test ${TEST_LIST[$i]} -r ${REPS} -t ${NR_THREADS} ${@} ${EXTRA_ARGS}
>> || exit 1
>>  		echo "Running compare-twice test ${TEST_NAME[$i]}"
>> -		./param_test_compare_twice ${TEST_LIST[$i]} -r ${REPS} ${@} ${EXTRA_ARGS} ||
>> exit 1
>> +		./param_test_compare_twice ${TEST_LIST[$i]} -r ${REPS} -t ${NR_THREADS} ${@}
>> ${EXTRA_ARGS} || exit 1
>>  		let "i++"
>>  	done
>>  }
> 
> BTW., when trying to build the rseq self-tests I get this build failure:
> 
>  dagon:~/tip/tools/testing/selftests/rseq> make
>  gcc -O2 -Wall -g -I./ -I../../../../usr/include/ -L./ -Wl,-rpath=./ -shared
>  -fPIC rseq.c -lpthread -o
>  /home/mingo/tip/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/librseq.so
>  gcc -O2 -Wall -g -I./ -I../../../../usr/include/ -L./ -Wl,-rpath=./ basic_test.c
>  -lpthread -lrseq -o /home/mingo/tip/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/basic_test
>  gcc -O2 -Wall -g -I./ -I../../../../usr/include/ -L./ -Wl,-rpath=./
>  basic_percpu_ops_test.c -lpthread -lrseq -o
>  /home/mingo/tip/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/basic_percpu_ops_test
>  /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccuHTWnZ.o: in function `rseq_cmpeqv_storev':
>  /home/mingo/tip/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/./rseq-x86.h:84: undefined
>  reference to `.L8'
>  /usr/bin/ld: /home/mingo/tip/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/./rseq-x86.h:84:
>  undefined reference to `.L49'
>  /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccuHTWnZ.o: in function `rseq_cmpnev_storeoffp_load':
>  /home/mingo/tip/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/./rseq-x86.h:141: undefined
>  reference to `.L57'
>  /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccuHTWnZ.o:(__rseq_failure+0x8): undefined reference to `.L8'
>  /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccuHTWnZ.o:(__rseq_failure+0x14): undefined reference to
>  `.L49'
>  /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccuHTWnZ.o:(__rseq_failure+0x20): undefined reference to
>  `.L55'
>  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>  make: *** [Makefile:22:
>  /home/mingo/tip/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/basic_percpu_ops_test] Error 1
> 
> Is this a known problem, or do I miss something from my build environment
> perhaps? Vanilla 64-bit Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic).

It works fine with gcc-7 (gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3))
but indeed I get the same failure with gcc-8 (gcc version 8.0.1 20180414
(experimental) [trunk revision 259383] (Ubuntu 8-20180414-1ubuntu2)).

Thanks for reporting! I will investigate.

Mathieu


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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