[LTP] [PATCH] fcntl36: make sure write threads complete at least 1 loop
Murphy Zhou
xzhou@redhat.com
Sat Feb 23 11:16:01 CET 2019
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 08:01:11PM +0100, Jan Stancek wrote:
> A failure has been reported while this test ran on a 1 CPU KVM guest
> with 4.20 kernel:
> ...
> fcntl36.c:303: INFO: OFD r/w lock vs POSIX read lock
> fcntl36.c:360: FAIL: Unexpected data offset 3072 value 1
>
> I wasn't able to reproduce it, to test the theory that
> one of write threads was given time on CPU only after
> loop_flag changed. Which means it wasn't able to complete
> a single iteration.
Ack. Thanks!
>
> This patch makes sure that write threads make at least
> one iteration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
> ---
> testcases/kernel/syscalls/fcntl/fcntl36.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fcntl/fcntl36.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fcntl/fcntl36.c
> index 2942e4e6adc2..58a37e7bc562 100644
> --- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fcntl/fcntl36.c
> +++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fcntl/fcntl36.c
> @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static void *fn_ofd_w(void *arg)
> .l_pid = 0,
> };
>
> - while (loop_flag) {
> + do {
>
> memset(buf, wt, pa->length);
>
> @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static void *fn_ofd_w(void *arg)
> wt = pa->cnt;
>
> sched_yield();
> - }
> + } while (loop_flag);
>
> pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);
> SAFE_CLOSE(fd);
> @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static void *fn_posix_w(void *arg)
> .l_len = pa->length,
> };
>
> - while (loop_flag) {
> + do {
>
> memset(buf, wt, pa->length);
>
> @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static void *fn_posix_w(void *arg)
> wt = pa->cnt;
>
> sched_yield();
> - }
> + } while (loop_flag);
>
> pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);
> SAFE_CLOSE(fd);
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
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