[LTP] [PATCH v2] pipe13: Scale child reap window with LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL
Stephen Bertram
sbertram@redhat.com
Mon Jul 13 18:07:20 CEST 2026
The post-close wait used a fixed 1000000 us cap on exponential backoff.
Scale that cap with tst_multiply_timeout() so debug
kernels and LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL apply, fixing failures under parallel
Kirk workers without changing default behavior on non-debug systems.
Before (only with case 100):
pipe13.c:50: TINFO: Creating 100 child processes
pipe13.c:81: TINFO: pid 435007 still sleeps
...
pipe13.c:81: TINFO: pid 435300 still sleeps
pipe13.c:89: TFAIL: Closed pipe didn't wake up everyone
The list varied but sometimes up to 20 would remained asleep.
Test is passing after using TST_RETRY_FN_EXP_BACKOFF() so timeout
scaling follows the standard LTP path (tst_multiply_timeout, debug
kconfig, LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL).
The failure before would happen, when using 4 paralell workers
on a debug kernel, about 1 to 2 times when iterated 5 times.
Tested on aarch64 debug+PREEMPT_RT: kirk -w 4 pipe13 -i 100, 400 runs,
0 fail.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Bertram <sbertram@redhat.com>
---
testcases/kernel/syscalls/pipe/pipe13.c | 44 +++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/pipe/pipe13.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/pipe/pipe13.c
index 5d76e1f00..7f7685a2c 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/pipe/pipe13.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/pipe/pipe13.c
@@ -26,6 +26,28 @@ static unsigned int tcases[] = {
};
static int fds[2];
+static unsigned int reap_child_num;
+static unsigned int reap_count;
+static int *reap_pids;
+
+static int reap_children_once(void)
+{
+ unsigned int i;
+ int ret;
+
+ while ((ret = waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG)) > 0) {
+ reap_count++;
+ for (i = 0; i < reap_child_num; i++) {
+ if (reap_pids[i] == ret)
+ reap_pids[i] = 0;
+ }
+ }
+ if (ret < 0 && errno != ECHILD)
+ tst_brk(TBROK | TERRNO, "waitpid()");
+ return reap_count;
+}
+
+#define ALL_CHILDREN_REAPED(cnt) ((unsigned int)(cnt) >= reap_child_num)
static void do_child(unsigned int i)
{
@@ -41,8 +63,7 @@ static void do_child(unsigned int i)
static void verify_pipe(unsigned int n)
{
- int ret;
- unsigned int i, cnt = 0, sleep_us = 1, fail = 0;
+ unsigned int i, fail = 0;
unsigned int child_num = tcases[n];
int pid[child_num];
@@ -60,21 +81,10 @@ static void verify_pipe(unsigned int n)
SAFE_CLOSE(fds[0]);
SAFE_CLOSE(fds[1]);
- while (cnt < child_num && sleep_us < 1000000) {
- ret = waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG);
- if (ret < 0)
- tst_brk(TBROK | TERRNO, "waitpid()");
- if (ret > 0) {
- cnt++;
- for (i = 0; i < child_num; i++) {
- if (pid[i] == ret)
- pid[i] = 0;
- }
- continue;
- }
- usleep(sleep_us);
- sleep_us *= 2;
- }
+ reap_child_num = child_num;
+ reap_count = 0;
+ reap_pids = pid;
+ TST_RETRY_FN_EXP_BACKOFF(reap_children_once(), ALL_CHILDREN_REAPED, 1);
for (i = 0; i < child_num; i++) {
if (pid[i]) {
--
2.54.0
More information about the ltp
mailing list