[LTP] [PATCH 2/2] perf_event_open02: make test more reliable on -rt kernels

[Jan Stancek]

Test is failing on -rt kernels quite reliably as reported here:
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/14/714

Suspected cause is extra time spend in scheduler, which counts towards
test process hw counters.

Pin test process to single CPU (doesn't matter which one) to lessen
effects from scheduling:

ratio     Before        After
mean      5.02582       4.99844
stdev     0.0090435     0.0000272
          95+% FAIL     100% PASS

Tested with "perf_event_open02: stop groups with hw counters first" patch
on RHEL8 kernel-rt 4.18.0-147.rt24.93.el8.x86_64 (HP dl380g7).

Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
---
 .../kernel/syscalls/perf_event_open/perf_event_open02.c   | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/perf_event_open/perf_event_open02.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/perf_event_open/perf_event_open02.c
index 1cfe29bb3d8a..6fc6f4afa119 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/perf_event_open/perf_event_open02.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/perf_event_open/perf_event_open02.c
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ Usage is: ./performance_counter02  [-v]
 The -v flag makes it print out the values of each counter.
 */
 
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stddef.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
@@ -222,6 +223,20 @@ static void setup(void)
 	int i;
 	struct perf_event_attr tsk_event, hw_event;
 
+#ifdef HAVE_SCHED_GETCPU
+	cpu_set_t mask;
+	int cpu = sched_getcpu();
+
+	if (cpu == -1)
+		tst_brkm(TBROK | TERRNO, NULL, "sched_getcpu() failed");
+
+	CPU_ZERO(&mask);
+	CPU_SET(cpu, &mask);
+
+	if (sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &mask) == -1)
+		tst_brkm(TBROK | TERRNO, NULL, "sched_setaffinity() failed");
+#endif
+
 	/*
 	 * According to perf_event_open's manpage, the official way of
 	 * knowing if perf_event_open() support is enabled is checking for
-- 
1.8.3.1