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perf test: Avoid infinite loop for task exit case
authorLeo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:19:42 +0000 (17:19 +0800)
committerKhalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:00:31 +0000 (00:00 -0500)
commitd95baf08082ed514301f243f333970fdb217b286
tree61dbb93c87c307c2575d7a28f14e671cc3b3aed3
parent2e65e057bd9e9dcd84a9715b562de09da769e103
perf test: Avoid infinite loop for task exit case

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1860490
[ Upstream commit 791ce9c48c79210d2ffcdbe69421e7783b32921f ]

When executing the task exit testing case, perf gets stuck in an endless
loop this case and doesn't return back on Arm64 Juno board.

After digging into this issue, since Juno board has Arm's big.LITTLE
CPUs, thus the PMUs are not compatible between the big CPUs and little
CPUs.  This leads to a PMU event that cannot be enabled properly when
the traced task is migrated from one variant's CPU to another variant.
Finally, the test case runs into infinite loop for cannot read out any
event data after return from polling.

Eventually, we need to work out formal solution to allow PMU events can
be freely migrated from one CPU variant to another, but this is a
difficult task and a different topic.  This patch tries to fix the Perf
test case to avoid infinite loop, when the testing detects 1000 times
retrying for reading empty events, it will directly bail out and return
failure.  This allows the Perf tool can continue its other test cases.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191011091942.29841-2-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
tools/perf/tests/task-exit.c