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From: Michal Pluta <michalpl2003@gmail.com>
To: acme@kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@kernel.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Darren Hart" <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	"Davidlohr Bueso" <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	"André Almeida" <andrealmeid@igalia.com>,
	"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"Alexander Shishkin" <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	"Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@kernel.org>, "Ian Rogers" <irogers@google.com>,
	"Adrian Hunter" <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	"James Clark" <james.clark@linaro.org>,
	"Sebastian Andrzej Siewior" <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/8] perf bench futex: Reject invalid -q, -f and -b values
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:04:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260926190407.1106421-5-michalpl2003@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260926190407.1106421-1-michalpl2003@gmail.com>

Some values make a futex benchmark hang or are silently ignored.

'futex requeue -q 0' never finishes, because no thread is requeued.
'futex hash -f 0' never finishes either, because with no futexes the
workers never notice that the run is over. A negative -b is treated as
if it had not been given, and the kernel simply auto-sizes the hash.

Print an error for these values, except for -b -1, which still means
automatic sizing.

Fixes: 0fb298cf95c0 ("perf bench: Add futex-requeue microbenchmark")
Fixes: a043971141f1 ("perf bench: Add futex-hash microbenchmark")
Fixes: 60035a3981a7 ("tools/perf: Allow to select the number of hash buckets")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Michal Pluta <michalpl2003@gmail.com>
---
 tools/perf/bench/futex-hash.c    | 3 +++
 tools/perf/bench/futex-requeue.c | 4 ++++
 tools/perf/bench/futex.c         | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/futex-hash.c b/tools/perf/bench/futex-hash.c
index 32b88df8ee6d..710c253cfe17 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/futex-hash.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/futex-hash.c
@@ -161,6 +161,9 @@ int bench_futex_hash(int argc, const char **argv)
 	if (!params.nthreads) /* default to the number of CPUs */
 		params.nthreads = perf_cpu_map__nr(cpu);
 
+	if (!params.nfutexes)
+		errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "-f/--futexes must be at least 1");
+
 	worker = calloc(params.nthreads, sizeof(*worker));
 	if (!worker)
 		goto errmem;
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/futex-requeue.c b/tools/perf/bench/futex-requeue.c
index 5d4708f40c60..bc6efc2ecadb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/futex-requeue.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/futex-requeue.c
@@ -207,6 +207,10 @@ int bench_futex_requeue(int argc, const char **argv)
 	if (params.broadcast)
 		params.nrequeue = params.nthreads;
 
+	/* A regular requeue that moves no threads would never finish. */
+	if (!params.pi && !params.nrequeue)
+		errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "-q/--nrequeue must be at least 1");
+
 	futex_set_nbuckets_param(&params);
 
 	printf("Run summary [PID %d]: Requeuing %d threads (from [%s] %p to %s%p), "
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/futex.c b/tools/perf/bench/futex.c
index 1968c9d00b5b..5757d47f8f7c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/futex.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/futex.c
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ void futex_set_nbuckets_param(struct bench_futex_parameters *params)
 {
 	int ret;
 
+	if (params->nbuckets < -1)
+		errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "-b/--buckets must be -1 (auto), 0 or more");
+
 	if (params->nbuckets < 0)
 		return;
 
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-26 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-26 19:03 [PATCH 0/8] perf bench futex: Fix several bugs and bad inputs Michal Pluta
2026-09-26 19:04 ` [PATCH 1/8] perf bench futex: Retry futex_wait() when interrupted by a signal Michal Pluta
2026-09-26 19:04 ` [PATCH 2/8] perf bench futex: Set the number of hash buckets in futex wake Michal Pluta
2026-09-26 19:04 ` [PATCH 3/8] perf bench futex: Use the whole timeval for elapsed times Michal Pluta
2026-09-26 19:04 ` Michal Pluta [this message]
2026-09-26 19:04 ` [PATCH 5/8] perf bench futex: Stop when futex_wake() fails in futex wake Michal Pluta
2026-09-26 19:04 ` [PATCH 6/8] perf bench futex: Use a 64-bit operation counter in hash and lock-pi Michal Pluta
2026-09-26 19:04 ` [PATCH 7/8] perf bench futex: Clean up two nits in futex hash Michal Pluta
2026-09-26 19:04 ` [PATCH 8/8] perf bench futex: Fix wording in futex bench messages Michal Pluta

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