linux.git/tools/testing/selftests, branch v3.8-rc2

tools/testing/selftests/kcmp/kcmp_test.c: print reason for failure in kcmp_test

2012-12-18T01:15:27+00:00

I was curious why sys_kcmp wasn't working, which led me to the testcase.
It turned out I hadn't enabled CHECKPOINT_RESTORE in the kernel I was
testing.  Add a decoding of errno to the testcase to make that obvious.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones 
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

breakpoint selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error

2012-12-18T01:15:27+00:00

In case breakpoint test exit non zero value it will cause make error.
Better way is just print the test failure status.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young 
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kcmp selftests: print fail status instead of cause make error

2012-12-18T01:15:27+00:00

In case kcmp_test exit non zero value it will cause make error.
Better way is just print the test failure status.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young 
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kcmp selftests: make run_tests fix

2012-12-18T01:15:27+00:00

make run_tests need the target is run_tests instead of run-tests
Also gcc output should be kcmp_test. Fix these two issues.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mem-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error

2012-12-18T01:15:27+00:00

Original behavior:
  bash-4.1$ make -C memory-hotplug run_tests
  make: Entering directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/memory-hotplug'
  ./on-off-test.sh
  make: execvp: ./on-off-test.sh: Permission denied
  make: *** [run_tests] Error 127
  make: Leaving directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/memory-hotplug'

After applying the patch:
  bash-4.1$ make -C memory-hotplug run_tests
  make: Entering directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/memory-hotplug'
  /bin/sh: ./on-off-test.sh: Permission denied
  memory-hotplug selftests: [FAIL]
  make: Leaving directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/memory-hotplug'

Signed-off-by: Dave Young 
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cpu-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error

2012-12-18T01:15:27+00:00

Original behavior:
  bash-4.1$ make -C cpu-hotplug run_tests
  make: Entering directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/cpu-hotplug'
  ./on-off-test.sh
  make: execvp: ./on-off-test.sh: Permission denied
  make: *** [run_tests] Error 127
  make: Leaving directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/cpu-hotplug'

After applying the patch:
  bash-4.1$ make -C cpu-hotplug run_tests
  make: Entering directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/cpu-hotplug'
  /bin/sh: ./on-off-test.sh: Permission denied
  cpu-hotplug selftests: [FAIL]
  make: Leaving directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/cpu-hotplug'

Signed-off-by: Dave Young 
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mqueue selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error

2012-12-18T01:15:26+00:00

Original behavior:
  bash-4.1$ make -C mqueue run_tests
  make: Entering directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/mqueue'
  ./mq_open_tests /test1
  Not running as root, but almost all tests require root in order to modify
  system settings.  Exiting.
  make: *** [run_tests] Error 1
  make: Leaving directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/mqueue'

After applying the patch:
  bash-4.1$ make -C mqueue run_tests
  make: Entering directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/mqueue'
  Not running as root, but almost all tests require root in order to modify
  system settings.  Exiting.
  mq_open_tests: [FAIL]
  Not running as root, but almost all tests require root in order to modify
  system settings.  Exiting.
  mq_perf_tests: [FAIL]
  make: Leaving directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/mqueue'

Signed-off-by: Dave Young 
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vm selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error

2012-12-18T01:15:26+00:00

Original behavior:
  bash-4.1$ make -C vm run_tests
  make: Entering directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/vm'
  /bin/sh ./run_vmtests
  ./run_vmtests: line 24: /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages: Permission denied
  Please run this test as root
  make: *** [run_tests] Error 1
  make: Leaving directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/vm'

After applying the patch:
  bash-4.1$ make -C vm run_tests
  make: Entering directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/vm'
  ./run_vmtests: line 24: /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages: Permission denied
  Please run this test as root
  vmtests: [FAIL]
  make: Leaving directory `/home/dave/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/vm'

Signed-off-by: Dave Young 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

selftests: add a test program for variable huge page sizes in mmap/shmget

2012-12-12T01:22:25+00:00

Also remove -Wextra because gcc-4.6 emits lots of irritating
signed/unsigned comparison warnings.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

revert "epoll: support for disabling items, and a self-test app"

2012-11-09T05:41:46+00:00

Revert commit 03a7beb55b9f ("epoll: support for disabling items, and a
self-test app") pending resolution of the issues identified by Michael
Kerrisk, copied below.

We'll revisit this for 3.8.

: I've taken a look at this patch as it currently stands in 3.7-rc1, and
: done a bit of testing. (By the way, the test program
: tools/testing/selftests/epoll/test_epoll.c does not compile...)
:
: There are one or two places where the behavior seems a little strange,
: so I have a question or two at the end of this mail. But other than
: that, I want to check my understanding so that the interface can be
: correctly documented.
:
: Just to go though my understanding, the problem is the following
: scenario in a multithreaded application:
:
: 1. Multiple threads are performing epoll_wait() operations,
:    and maintaining a user-space cache that contains information
:    corresponding to each file descriptor being monitored by
:    epoll_wait().
:
: 2. At some point, a thread wants to delete (EPOLL_CTL_DEL)
:    a file descriptor from the epoll interest list, and
:    delete the corresponding record from the user-space cache.
:
: 3. The problem with (2) is that some other thread may have
:    previously done an epoll_wait() that retrieved information
:    about the fd in question, and may be in the middle of using
:    information in the cache that relates to that fd. Thus,
:    there is a potential race.
:
: 4. The race can't solved purely in user space, because doing
:    so would require applying a mutex across the epoll_wait()
:    call, which would of course blow thread concurrency.
:
: Right?
:
: Your solution is the EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE operation. I want to
: confirm my understanding about how to use this flag, since
: the description that has accompanied the patches so far
: has been a bit sparse
:
: 0. In the scenario you're concerned about, deleting a file
:    descriptor means (safely) doing the following:
:    (a) Deleting the file descriptor from the epoll interest list
:        using EPOLL_CTL_DEL
:    (b) Deleting the corresponding record in the user-space cache
:
: 1. It's only meaningful to use this EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE in
:    conjunction with EPOLLONESHOT.
:
: 2. Using EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE without using EPOLLONESHOT in
:    conjunction is a logical error.
:
: 3. The correct way to code multithreaded applications using
:    EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE and EPOLLONESHOT is as follows:
:
:    a. All EPOLL_CTL_ADD and EPOLL_CTL_MOD operations should
:       should EPOLLONESHOT.
:
:    b. When a thread wants to delete a file descriptor, it
:       should do the following:
:
:       [1] Call epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE)
:       [2] If the return status from epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE)
:           was zero, then the file descriptor can be safely
:           deleted by the thread that made this call.
:       [3] If the epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE) fails with EBUSY,
:           then the descriptor is in use. In this case, the calling
:           thread should set a flag in the user-space cache to
:           indicate that the thread that is using the descriptor
:           should perform the deletion operation.
:
: Is all of the above correct?
:
: The implementation depends on checking on whether
: (events & ~EP_PRIVATE_BITS) == 0
: This replies on the fact that EPOLL_CTL_AD and EPOLL_CTL_MOD always
: set EPOLLHUP and EPOLLERR in the 'events' mask, and EPOLLONESHOT
: causes those flags (as well as all others in ~EP_PRIVATE_BITS) to be
: cleared.
:
: A corollary to the previous paragraph is that using EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE
: is only useful in conjunction with EPOLLONESHOT. However, as things
: stand, one can use EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE on a file descriptor that does
: not have EPOLLONESHOT set in 'events' This results in the following
: (slightly surprising) behavior:
:
: (a) The first call to epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE) returns 0
:     (the indicator that the file descriptor can be safely deleted).
: (b) The next call to epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE) fails with EBUSY.
:
: This doesn't seem particularly useful, and in fact is probably an
: indication that the user made a logic error: they should only be using
: epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE) on a file descriptor for which
: EPOLLONESHOT was set in 'events'. If that is correct, then would it
: not make sense to return an error to user space for this case?

Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: "Paton J. Lewis" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds