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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:29:34 +0100
From: James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 5/8] perf test: Tag parallel failing shell tests with
"(exclusive)"
On 11/10/2024 11:01 am, James Clark wrote:
>
>
> On 11/10/2024 8:35 am, Ian Rogers wrote:
>> Some shell tests compete for resources and so can't run with other
>> tests, tag such tests. The "(exclusive)" stems from shared/exclusive
>> to describe how the tests run as if holding a lock.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
>> ---
>> tools/perf/tests/shell/perftool-testsuite_report.sh | 2 +-
>> tools/perf/tests/shell/record.sh | 2 +-
>> tools/perf/tests/shell/record_lbr.sh | 2 +-
>> tools/perf/tests/shell/record_offcpu.sh | 2 +-
>> tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_pmu.sh | 2 +-
>> tools/perf/tests/shell/test_intel_pt.sh | 2 +-
>> tools/perf/tests/shell/test_stat_intel_tpebs.sh | 2 +-
>> 7 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>
> The following ones would also need to be marked as exclusive, not sure
> if you can include those here or you want me to send a patch:
>
> tools/perf/tests/shell/coresight/asm_pure_loop.sh
> tools/perf/tests/shell/coresight/memcpy_thread_16k_10.sh
> tools/perf/tests/shell/coresight/thread_loop_check_tid_10.sh
> tools/perf/tests/shell/coresight/thread_loop_check_tid_2.sh
> tools/perf/tests/shell/coresight/unroll_loop_thread_10.sh
> tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight.sh
> tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_coresight_disasm.sh
> tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_spe.sh
>
> In theory all tests using probes would also need to be exclusive because
> they install and delete probes globally. In practice I don't think I saw
> any failures, whether that's just luck or because of some skips I'm not
> sure.
>
> And this one fails consistently in parallel mode on Arm:
>
> 22: Number of exit events of a simple workload
> : FAILED!
>
> But it's a C test so I assume there isn't an exclusive mechanism to skip
> it? It doesn't look like it should be affected though, so maybe we could
> leave it failing as a real bug.
>
Oh I see it says in the cover letter it can be set for C tests. But can
that be done through all the existing TEST_CASE() etc macros?
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