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Message-ID: <7359e1e99d715e19db1b1c9e45d28f0c12f0f44e.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:54:43 -0500
From: Crystal Wood <crwood@...hat.com>
To: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@...hat.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Trace Kernel	
 <linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>, Luis
 Goncalves <lgoncalv@...hat.com>, Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@...hat.com>,
 Wander Lairson Costa	 <wander@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] rtla/tests: Extend action tests to 5s

On Mon, 2025-10-06 at 16:26 +0200, Tomas Glozar wrote:
> In non-BPF mode, it takes up to 1 second for RTLA to notice that tracing
> has been stopped. That means that action tests cannot have a 1 second
> duration, as the SIGALRM will be racing with the threshold overflow.
> 
> Previously, non-BPF mode actions were buggy and always executed
> the action, even when stopping on duration or SIGINT, preventing
> this issue from manifesting. Now that this has been fixed, the tests
> have become flaky, and this has to be adjusted.
> 
> Fixes: 4e26f84abfb ("rtla/tests: Add tests for actions")
> Fixes: 05b7e10687c ("tools/rtla: Add remaining support for osnoise actions")
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@...hat.com>
> ---
>  tools/tracing/rtla/tests/osnoise.t  | 4 ++--
>  tools/tracing/rtla/tests/timerlat.t | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/osnoise.t b/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/osnoise.t
> index e3c89d45a6bb..08196443fef1 100644
> --- a/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/osnoise.t
> +++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/tests/osnoise.t
> @@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ check "hist stop at failed action" \
>  check "top stop at failed action" \
>  	"timerlat top -T 2 --on-threshold shell,command='echo -n abc; false' --on-threshold shell,command='echo -n defgh'" 2 "^abc" "defgh"
>  check "hist with continue" \
> -	"osnoise hist -S 2 -d 1s --on-threshold shell,command='echo TestOutput' --on-threshold continue" 0 "^TestOutput$"
> +	"osnoise hist -S 2 -d 5s --on-threshold shell,command='echo TestOutput' --on-threshold continue" 0 "^TestOutput$"
>  check "top with continue" \
> -	"osnoise top -q -S 2 -d 1s --on-threshold shell,command='echo TestOutput' --on-threshold continue" 0 "^TestOutput$"
> +	"osnoise top -q -S 2 -d 5s --on-threshold shell,command='echo TestOutput' --on-threshold continue" 0 "^TestOutput$"

Not related to this patch other than noticing it via quoted context, but
I spent about a minute trying to figure out why "top stop at failed
action" uses -T instead of -S here, before noticing that it's also
invoking timerlat. :-P

-Crystal


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