提交 3c18c10b 编写于 作者: S Steven Rostedt 提交者: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix wakeup_rt self test on virtual machines

The warkeup_rt self test used msleep() calls to wait for real time
tasks to wake up and run. On bare-metal hardware, this was enough as
the scheduler should let the RT task run way before the non-RT task
wakes up from the msleep(). If it did not, then that would mean the
scheduler was broken.

But when dealing with virtual machines, this is a different story.
If the RT task wakes up on a VCPU, it's up to the host to decide when
that task gets to schedule, which can be far behind the time that the
non-RT task wakes up. In this case, the test would fail incorrectly.

As we are not testing the scheduler, but instead the wake up tracing,
we can use completions to wait and not depend on scheduler timings
to see if events happen on time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343663105.3847.7.camel@fedoraReported-by: NFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: NFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
上级 e5253896
......@@ -1041,6 +1041,8 @@ static int trace_wakeup_test_thread(void *data)
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
schedule();
complete(x);
/* we are awake, now wait to disappear */
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
/*
......@@ -1084,24 +1086,21 @@ trace_selftest_startup_wakeup(struct tracer *trace, struct trace_array *tr)
/* reset the max latency */
tracing_max_latency = 0;
/* sleep to let the RT thread sleep too */
msleep(100);
while (p->on_rq) {
/*
* Sleep to make sure the RT thread is asleep too.
* On virtual machines we can't rely on timings,
* but we want to make sure this test still works.
*/
msleep(100);
}
/*
* Yes this is slightly racy. It is possible that for some
* strange reason that the RT thread we created, did not
* call schedule for 100ms after doing the completion,
* and we do a wakeup on a task that already is awake.
* But that is extremely unlikely, and the worst thing that
* happens in such a case, is that we disable tracing.
* Honestly, if this race does happen something is horrible
* wrong with the system.
*/
init_completion(&isrt);
wake_up_process(p);
/* give a little time to let the thread wake up */
msleep(100);
/* Wait for the task to wake up */
wait_for_completion(&isrt);
/* stop the tracing. */
tracing_stop();
......
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