Date:   Thu, 9 Jan 2020 16:06:32 +0000
From:   "Moger, Babu" <Babu.Moger@....com>
To:     Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>
CC:     linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v9 00/13] selftests/resctrl: Add resctrl selftest

[AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only]

Hi Fenghua,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moger, Babu <babu.moger@....com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 12:24 PM
> To: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>; Thomas Gleixner
> <tglx@...utronix.de>; Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>; Borislav Petkov
> <bp@...en8.de>; H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>; Tony Luck
> <tony.luck@...el.com>; Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>;
> James Morse <james.morse@....com>; Ravi V Shankar
> <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>; Sai Praneeth Prakhya
> <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>; x86 <x86@...nel.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/13] selftests/resctrl: Add resctrl selftest
> 
> Fenghua,
> Thanks for the patches. I did a quick test. I am seeing some failures with
> this series. I need to debug to figure out what is going on. Hopefully I
> will be able to spend sometime this week or next week. I will be out for
> few days this week and also next week. Here is the failure..

The problem has been root caused and fixed with this following patch.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200108193455.29834-1-kim.phillips@amd.com/
After this patch everything works as expected. Patches look good to me. Thanks.

> 
> # ./resctrl_tests -t cat
> TAP version 13
> ok kernel supports resctrl filesystem
> ok resctrl mountpoint "/sys/fs/resctrl" exists
> # resctrl filesystem is mounted
> # dmesg: [    6.558645] resctrl: L3 allocation detected
> # dmesg: [    6.558646] resctrl: L3DATA allocation detected
> # dmesg: [    6.558646] resctrl: L3CODE allocation detected
> # dmesg: [    6.558647] resctrl: MB allocation detected
> # dmesg: [    6.558647] resctrl: L3 monitoring detected
> # Starting CAT test ...
> ok mounting resctrl to "/sys/fs/resctrl"
> cache size :16777216
> ok writing benchmark parameters to resctrl FS
> ok writing benchmark parameters to resctrl FS
> ok Write schema "L3:0=7ff" to resctrl FS
> ok Write schema "L3:15=f800" to resctrl FS
> Error opening leader: No such file or directory
> Killed
> 
> 
> On 12/16/19 4:26 PM, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> > With more and more resctrl features are being added by Intel, AMD
> > and ARM, a test tool is becoming more and more useful to validate
> > that both hardware and software functionalities work as expected.
> >
> > We introduce resctrl selftest to cover resctrl features on X86, AMD
> > and ARM architectures. It first implements MBM (Memory Bandwidth
> > Monitoring), MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation), L3 CAT (Cache
> Allocation
> > Technology), and CQM (Cache QoS Monitoring)  tests. We will enhance
> > the selftest tool to include more functionality tests in the future.
> >
> > The tool has been tested on Intel RDT, AMD QoS and ARM MPAM and is
> > in tools/testing/selftests/resctrl in order to have generic test code
> > base for all architectures.
> >
> > The selftest tool we are introducing here provides a convenient
> > tool which does automatic resctrl testing, is easily available in kernel
> > tree, and covers Intel RDT, AMD QoS and ARM MPAM.
> >
> > There is an existing resctrl test suite 'intel_cmt_cat'. But its major
> > purpose is to test Intel RDT hardware via writing and reading MSR
> > registers. It does access resctrl file system; but the functionalities
> > are very limited. And it doesn't support automatic test and a lot of
> > manual verifications are involved.
> >
> > Changelog:
> > v9:
> > - Per Boris suggestion, add Co-developed-by in each patch to make it
> >   clear who contributed to the patch set.
> >
> > v8:
> > Update code per comments from Andre Przywara from ARM:
> > - Change Makefile and remove inline assembly code to build and test the
> >   tool on ARM
> > - Change the output to TAP format because the format is both readable by
> >   human and other test tools.
> > - Detect resctrl feature from /proc/cpuinfo instead of dmesg to support
> >   generic detection on all architectures.
> > - Fix a few coding issues.
> >
> > v7:
> > - Fix a few warnings when compiling patches separately, pointed by Babu
> >
> > v6:
> > - Fix a benchmark reading optimized out issue in newer GCC.
> > - Fix a few coding style issues.
> > - Re-arrange code among patches to make cleaner code. No change in
> patches
> > structure.
> >
> > v5:
> > - Based the v4 patches submitted by Fenghua Yu and added changes to
> support
> >   AMD.
> > - Changed the function name get_sock_num to get_resource_id. Intel uses
> >   socket number for schemata and AMD uses l3 index id. To generalize,
> >   changed the function name to get_resource_id.
> > - Added the code to detect vendor.
> > - Disabled the few tests for AMD where the test results are not clear.
> >   Also AMD does not have IMC.
> > - Fixed few compile issues.
> > - Some cleanup to make each patch independent.
> > - Tested the patches on AMD system. Fenghua, Need your help to test on
> >   Intel box. Please feel free to change and resubmit if something
> >    broken.
> >
> > v4:
> > - address comments from Balu and Randy
> > - Add CAT and CQM tests
> >
> > v3:
> > - Change code based on comments from Babu Moger
> > - Remove some unnessary code and use pipe to communicate b/w
> processes
> >
> > v2:
> > - Change code based on comments from Babu Moger
> > - Clean up other places.
> >
> > Babu Moger (3):
> >   selftests/resctrl: Add vendor detection mechanism
> >   selftests/resctrl: Use cache index3 id for AMD schemata masks
> >   selftests/resctrl: Disable MBA and MBM tests for AMD
> >
> > Fenghua Yu (6):
> >   selftests/resctrl: Add README for resctrl tests
> >   selftests/resctrl: Add MBM test
> >   selftests/resctrl: Add MBA test
> >   selftests/resctrl: Add Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) selftest
> >   selftests/resctrl: Add Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) selftest
> >   selftests/resctrl: Add the test in MAINTAINERS
> >
> > Sai Praneeth Prakhya (4):
> >   selftests/resctrl: Add basic resctrl file system operations and data
> >   selftests/resctrl: Read memory bandwidth from perf IMC counter and
> >     from resctrl file system
> >   selftests/resctrl: Add callback to start a benchmark
> >   selftests/resctrl: Add built in benchmark
> >
> >  MAINTAINERS                                   |   1 +
> >  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/Makefile      |  17 +
> >  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/README        |  53 ++
> >  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cache.c       | 272 +++++++
> >  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cat_test.c    | 250 ++++++
> >  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cqm_test.c    | 176 +++++
> >  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c    | 213 +++++
> >  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c    | 171 ++++
> >  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c    | 145 ++++
> >  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h     | 107 +++
> >  .../testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c | 202 +++++
> >  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_val.c | 744 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c   | 722 +++++++++++++++++
> >  13 files changed, 3073 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/Makefile
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/README
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cache.c
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cat_test.c
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cqm_test.c
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_val.c
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c
> >

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