[LTP] [PATCH] fzsync: skip test when avaliable CPUs less than 2

[Li Wang]

Hi Joerg,

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 3:53 PM Joerg Vehlow <lkml@jv-coder.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> >> No, af_alg07 requires 2 CPUs, otherwise it'll report false positives.
> >> The test will pass only if fchownat() hits a half-closed socket and
> >> returns error. But IIRC the half-closed socket will be destroyed during
> >> reschedule which means there's no race window to hit anymore. But it
> >> would be better to put the TCONF condition into the test itself.
> > Interesting, I wonder if this is also true for the real-time kernel with
> > the threads set to RT priority?
> It looks like the test can fail even with more than one cpu. I've seen
> this sporadic failure on different hardware with more than two cores, at
> least on intel denverton (x86_64) and renesas r-car (aarch64) systems.
> Both with kernel 4.19 with the fix included, on the denverton system the
> rt parches were included and on the r-car not. The test passes most of
> the time, but sometimes fails with the message Li posted.
>
> It also seems to fail sporadically on other systems as well:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-kernel-tests/+bug/1892860
>
> Additionally I tested on qemu-x86 with 4.19 with and without rt patches.
> The test succeeds even with only one virtualized cpu. So either Martin's
> assumption is wrong or it holds only for newer kernel versions?
>

No, Mertin is not wrong, and you are also right.

They are totally two different issues of af_alg07, the test on 1CPU
should be fixed with TCONF. But the fail with aarch64 is more like a
hardware issue, Chunyu has a drafted patch to add init delay value for
such a system.

Can you try this on your aarm64 platform?
-----------------------------
fzsync can't get a random delay range on hpe-moonshot systems, so run with
delay=0 during all the tests. This is probably the hardware issue such as
cache line design so can't get a stable state during the execution of the
critical
section. Provide an experience delay value on hpe-moonshot to make it hit
the race window immediately without exceeding samples.

---
 testcases/kernel/crypto/af_alg07.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/testcases/kernel/crypto/af_alg07.c
b/testcases/kernel/crypto/af_alg07.c
index 6ad86f4f3..24f5b8088 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/crypto/af_alg07.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/crypto/af_alg07.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static void setup(void)
  fd = SAFE_OPEN("tmpfile", O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0644);

  tst_fzsync_pair_init(&fzsync_pair);
+ fzsync_pair.delay_bias = 700;
 }

 static void *thread_run(void *arg)
-- 
2.19.1

-- 
Regards,
Li Wang
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