linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf: fix perf test case 14 result reporting

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Message-Id: <20170601123441.24581-1-tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Thu,  1 Jun 2017 14:34:41 +0200
From:   Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, acme@...nel.org
Cc:     Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf: fix perf test case 14 result reporting

Command perf test -v 14 (Setup struct perf_event_attr test)
always reports success even if the test case fails.
It works correctly if you also specify -F (for don't fork).

   root@...lp76 perf]# ./perf test -v 14
   14: Setup struct perf_event_attr               :
   --- start ---
   running './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay'
   [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB /tmp/tmp4E1h7R/perf.data
     (1 samples) ]
   expected task=0, got 1
   expected precise_ip=0, got 3
   expected wakeup_events=1, got 0
   FAILED './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay' - match failure
   test child finished with 0
   ---- end ----
   Setup struct perf_event_attr: Ok

The reason for the wrong error reporting is the return value of the
system() library call. It is called in run_dir() file tests/attr.c
and returns the exit status, in above case 0xff00.
This value is given as parameter to the exit() function which
can only handle values 0-0xff.
The child process terminates with exit value of 0 and the parent
does not detect any error.

This patch corrects the error reporting and prints the
correct test result.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 tools/perf/tests/attr.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/attr.c b/tools/perf/tests/attr.c
index 88dc51f..131b510 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/attr.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/attr.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int run_dir(const char *d, const char *perf)
 	snprintf(cmd, 3*PATH_MAX, PYTHON " %s/attr.py -d %s/attr/ -p %s %.*s",
 		 d, d, perf, vcnt, v);
 
-	return system(cmd);
+	return system(cmd) ? TEST_FAIL : TEST_OK;
 }
 
 int test__attr(int subtest __maybe_unused)
-- 
2.9.3