[PATCH v2 1/2] selftests/ftrace: Save kprobe_events to test log

From: Tiezhu Yang
Date: Fri May 06 2022 - 06:20:49 EST


It may lead to kernel panic when execute the following testcase on mips:

# cd tools/testing/selftests/ftrace
# ./ftracetest test.d/kprobe/multiple_kprobes.tc

A preliminary analysis shows that the issue is related with

echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable

after add the 256 probe points.

In order to find the root cause, I want to verify which probe point has
problem, so it is necessary to save kprobe_events to test log.

With this patch, we can get the 256 probe points in the test log through
the following command:

# ./ftracetest test.d/kprobe/multiple_kprobes.tc -vvv -k

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/multiple_kprobes.tc | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/multiple_kprobes.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/multiple_kprobes.tc
index 312d237..be754f5 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/multiple_kprobes.tc
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/multiple_kprobes.tc
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ if [ $L -ne 256 ]; then
exit_fail
fi

+cat kprobe_events >> $testlog
+
echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable
echo 0 > events/kprobes/enable
echo > kprobe_events
--
2.1.0