linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] tracing: Fix wakeup_rt self test on virtual machines

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Message-Id: <20120807220303.380504263@goodmis.org>
Date:	Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:01:07 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] tracing: Fix wakeup_rt self test on virtual machines

From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>

The warkeup_rt self test used msleep() calls to wait for real time
tasks to wake up and run. On bare-metal hardware, this was enough as
the scheduler should let the RT task run way before the non-RT task
wakes up from the msleep(). If it did not, then that would mean the
scheduler was broken.

But when dealing with virtual machines, this is a different story.
If the RT task wakes up on a VCPU, it's up to the host to decide when
that task gets to schedule, which can be far behind the time that the
non-RT task wakes up. In this case, the test would fail incorrectly.

As we are not testing the scheduler, but instead the wake up tracing,
we can use completions to wait and not depend on scheduler timings
to see if events happen on time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343663105.3847.7.camel@fedora

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c |   27 +++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
index 1003a4d..2c00a69 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
@@ -1041,6 +1041,8 @@ static int trace_wakeup_test_thread(void *data)
 	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 	schedule();
 
+	complete(x);
+
 	/* we are awake, now wait to disappear */
 	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
 		/*
@@ -1084,24 +1086,21 @@ trace_selftest_startup_wakeup(struct tracer *trace, struct trace_array *tr)
 	/* reset the max latency */
 	tracing_max_latency = 0;
 
-	/* sleep to let the RT thread sleep too */
-	msleep(100);
+	while (p->on_rq) {
+		/*
+		 * Sleep to make sure the RT thread is asleep too.
+		 * On virtual machines we can't rely on timings,
+		 * but we want to make sure this test still works.
+		 */
+		msleep(100);
+	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Yes this is slightly racy. It is possible that for some
-	 * strange reason that the RT thread we created, did not
-	 * call schedule for 100ms after doing the completion,
-	 * and we do a wakeup on a task that already is awake.
-	 * But that is extremely unlikely, and the worst thing that
-	 * happens in such a case, is that we disable tracing.
-	 * Honestly, if this race does happen something is horrible
-	 * wrong with the system.
-	 */
+	init_completion(&isrt);
 
 	wake_up_process(p);
 
-	/* give a little time to let the thread wake up */
-	msleep(100);
+	/* Wait for the task to wake up */
+	wait_for_completion(&isrt);
 
 	/* stop the tracing. */
 	tracing_stop();
-- 
1.7.10.4



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