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Date:   Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:10:22 -0700
From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        christian@...uner.io, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        jannh@...gle.com, axboe@...nel.dk,
        Matt Morehouse <mascasa@...gle.com>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 8/8] selftests/perf: Add kselftest for remove_on_exec

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 6:24 AM Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:41AM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> > Add kselftest to test that remove_on_exec removes inherited events from
> > child tasks.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
>
> To make compatible with more recent libc, we'll need to fixup the tests
> with the below.
>
> Also, I've seen that tools/perf/tests exists, however it seems to be
> primarily about perf-tool related tests. Is this correct?
>
> I'd propose to keep these purely kernel ABI related tests separate, and
> that way we can also make use of the kselftests framework which will
> also integrate into various CI systems such as kernelci.org.

Perhaps there is a way to have both? Having the perf tool spot an
errant kernel feels like a feature. There are also
tools/lib/perf/tests and Vince Weaver's tests [1]. It is possible to
run standalone tests from within perf test by having them be executed
by a shell test.

Thanks,
Ian

[1] https://github.com/deater/perf_event_tests

> Thanks,
> -- Marco
>
> ------ >8 ------
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/remove_on_exec.c b/tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/remove_on_exec.c
> index e176b3a74d55..f89d0cfdb81e 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/remove_on_exec.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/remove_on_exec.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,11 @@
>  #define __have_siginfo_t 1
>  #define __have_sigval_t 1
>  #define __have_sigevent_t 1
> +#define __siginfo_t_defined
> +#define __sigval_t_defined
> +#define __sigevent_t_defined
> +#define _BITS_SIGINFO_CONSTS_H 1
> +#define _BITS_SIGEVENT_CONSTS_H 1
>
>  #include <linux/perf_event.h>
>  #include <pthread.h>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/sigtrap_threads.c b/tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/sigtrap_threads.c
> index 7ebb9bb34c2e..b9a7d4b64b3c 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/sigtrap_threads.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/sigtrap_threads.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,11 @@
>  #define __have_siginfo_t 1
>  #define __have_sigval_t 1
>  #define __have_sigevent_t 1
> +#define __siginfo_t_defined
> +#define __sigval_t_defined
> +#define __sigevent_t_defined
> +#define _BITS_SIGINFO_CONSTS_H 1
> +#define _BITS_SIGEVENT_CONSTS_H 1
>
>  #include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
>  #include <linux/perf_event.h>