Re: [PATCH v7 08/11] tools/perf/test: make perf test adopt to task comm size change

[Yafang Shao]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:31 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<arnaldo.melo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Em Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 06:04:16AM +0000, Yafang Shao escreveu:
> > kernel test robot reported a perf-test failure after I extended task comm
> > size from 16 to 24. The failure as follows,
> >
> > 2021-10-13 18:00:46 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-317419b91ef4eff4e2f046088201e4dc4065caa0/tools/perf/perf test 15
> > 15: Parse sched tracepoints fields                                  : FAILED!
> >
> > The reason is perf-test requires a fixed-size task comm. If we extend
> > task comm size to 24, it will not equil with the required size 16 in perf
> > test.
> >
> > After some analyzation, I found perf itself can adopt to the size
> > change, for example, below is the output of perf-sched after I extend
> > comm size to 24 -
> >
> > task    614 (            kthreadd:        84), nr_events: 1
> > task    615 (             systemd:       843), nr_events: 1
> > task    616 (     networkd-dispat:      1026), nr_events: 1
> > task    617 (             systemd:       846), nr_events: 1
> >
> > $ cat /proc/843/comm
> > networkd-dispatcher
> >
> > The task comm can be displayed correctly as expected.
> >
> > Replace old hard-coded 16 with the new one can fix the warning, but we'd
> > better make the test accept both old and new sizes, then it can be
> > backward compatibility.
> >
> > After this patch, the perf-test succeeds no matter task comm is 16 or
> > 24 -
> >
> > 15: Parse sched tracepoints fields                                  : Ok
> >
> > This patch is a preparation for the followup patch.
> >
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  tools/include/linux/sched.h       | 11 +++++++++++
> >  tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
> >  2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/sched.h
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/include/linux/sched.h b/tools/include/linux/sched.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..0d575afd7f43
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/tools/include/linux/sched.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> > +#ifndef _TOOLS_LINUX_SCHED_H
> > +#define _TOOLS_LINUX_SCHED_H
> > +
> > +/* Keep both length for backward compatibility */
> > +enum {
> > +     TASK_COMM_LEN_16 = 16,
> > +     TASK_COMM_LEN = 24,
> > +};
> > +
>
> I don't think this is a good idea, to have it in tools/include/linux/,
> we have /usr/include/linux/sched.h, this may end up confusing the build
> at some point as your proposal is for a trimmed down header while what
> is in /usr/include/linux/sched.h doesn't have just this.
>
> But since we're using enums for this, we can't check for it with:
>
> #ifdef TASK_COMM_LEN_16
> #define TASK_COMM_LEN_16 16
> #endif
>
> ditto for TASK_COMM_LEN and be future proof, so I'd say just use
> hardcoded values in tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c?
>

Hi Arnaldo,

Thanks for the review.
This perf tests code won't be changed in the latest version as we
don't want to extend comm size any more, see also
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211108083840.4627-1-laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx/
The hard-coded 16 in tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c is kept as-is.

>
> > +#endif  /* _TOOLS_LINUX_SCHED_H */
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c b/tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c
> > index f9e34bd26cf3..029f2a8c8e51 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c
> > @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
> >  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> >  #include <linux/err.h>
> > +#include <linux/sched.h>
> >  #include <traceevent/event-parse.h>
> >  #include "evsel.h"
> >  #include "tests.h"
> >  #include "debug.h"
> >
> > -static int evsel__test_field(struct evsel *evsel, const char *name, int size, bool should_be_signed)
> > +static int evsel__test_field_alt(struct evsel *evsel, const char *name,
> > +                              int size, int alternate_size, bool should_be_signed)
> >  {
> >       struct tep_format_field *field = evsel__field(evsel, name);
> >       int is_signed;
> > @@ -23,15 +25,24 @@ static int evsel__test_field(struct evsel *evsel, const char *name, int size, bo
> >               ret = -1;
> >       }
> >
> > -     if (field->size != size) {
> > -             pr_debug("%s: \"%s\" size (%d) should be %d!\n",
> > +     if (field->size != size && field->size != alternate_size) {
> > +             pr_debug("%s: \"%s\" size (%d) should be %d",
> >                        evsel->name, name, field->size, size);
> > +             if (alternate_size > 0)
> > +                     pr_debug(" or %d", alternate_size);
> > +             pr_debug("!\n");
> >               ret = -1;
> >       }
> >
> >       return ret;
> >  }
> >
> > +static int evsel__test_field(struct evsel *evsel, const char *name,
> > +                          int size, bool should_be_signed)
> > +{
> > +     return evsel__test_field_alt(evsel, name, size, -1, should_be_signed);
> > +}
> > +
> >  int test__perf_evsel__tp_sched_test(struct test *test __maybe_unused, int subtest __maybe_unused)
> >  {
> >       struct evsel *evsel = evsel__newtp("sched", "sched_switch");
> > @@ -42,7 +53,8 @@ int test__perf_evsel__tp_sched_test(struct test *test __maybe_unused, int subtes
> >               return -1;
> >       }
> >
> > -     if (evsel__test_field(evsel, "prev_comm", 16, false))
> > +     if (evsel__test_field_alt(evsel, "prev_comm", TASK_COMM_LEN_16,
> > +                               TASK_COMM_LEN, false))
> >               ret = -1;
> >
> >       if (evsel__test_field(evsel, "prev_pid", 4, true))
> > @@ -54,7 +66,8 @@ int test__perf_evsel__tp_sched_test(struct test *test __maybe_unused, int subtes
> >       if (evsel__test_field(evsel, "prev_state", sizeof(long), true))
> >               ret = -1;
> >
> > -     if (evsel__test_field(evsel, "next_comm", 16, false))
> > +     if (evsel__test_field_alt(evsel, "next_comm", TASK_COMM_LEN_16,
> > +                               TASK_COMM_LEN, false))
> >               ret = -1;
> >
> >       if (evsel__test_field(evsel, "next_pid", 4, true))
> > @@ -72,7 +85,8 @@ int test__perf_evsel__tp_sched_test(struct test *test __maybe_unused, int subtes
> >               return -1;
> >       }
> >
> > -     if (evsel__test_field(evsel, "comm", 16, false))
> > +     if (evsel__test_field_alt(evsel, "comm", TASK_COMM_LEN_16,
> > +                               TASK_COMM_LEN, false))
> >               ret = -1;
> >
> >       if (evsel__test_field(evsel, "pid", 4, true))
> > --
> > 2.17.1
>
> --
>
> - Arnaldo



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Thanks
Yafang