[PATCH v2] selftests/powerpc: Do not fail with reschedule

Breno Leitao leitao at debian.org
Thu Sep 13 06:31:05 AEST 2018


There are cases where the test is not expecting to have the transaction
aborted, but, the test process might have been rescheduled, either in the
OS level or by KVM (if it is running on a KVM guest machine). The process
reschedule will cause a treclaim/recheckpoint which will cause the
transaction to doom, aborting the transaction as soon as the process is
rescheduled back to the CPU. This might cause the test to fail, but this is
not a failure in essence.

If that is the case, TEXASR[FC] is indicated with either
TM_CAUSE_RESCHEDULE or TM_CAUSE_KVM_RESCHEDULE for KVM interruptions.

In this scenario, ignore these two failures and avoid the whole test to
return failure.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo Romero <gromero at linux.ibm.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-unavailable.c | 9 ++++++---
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm.h             | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-unavailable.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-unavailable.c
index 156c8e750259..09894f4ff62e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-unavailable.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-unavailable.c
@@ -236,7 +236,8 @@ void *tm_una_ping(void *input)
 	}
 
 	/* Check if we were not expecting a failure and a it occurred. */
-	if (!expecting_failure() && is_failure(cr_)) {
+	if (!expecting_failure() && is_failure(cr_) &&
+	    !failure_is_reschedule()) {
 		printf("\n\tUnexpected transaction failure 0x%02lx\n\t",
 			failure_code());
 		return (void *) -1;
@@ -244,9 +245,11 @@ void *tm_una_ping(void *input)
 
 	/*
 	 * Check if TM failed due to the cause we were expecting. 0xda is a
-	 * TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV cause, otherwise it's an unexpected cause.
+	 * TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV cause, otherwise it's an unexpected cause, unless
+	 * it was caused by a reschedule.
 	 */
-	if (is_failure(cr_) && !failure_is_unavailable()) {
+	if (is_failure(cr_) && !failure_is_unavailable() &&
+	    !failure_is_reschedule()) {
 		printf("\n\tUnexpected failure cause 0x%02lx\n\t",
 			failure_code());
 		return (void *) -1;
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm.h b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm.h
index df4204247d45..5518b1d4ef8b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm.h
@@ -52,6 +52,15 @@ static inline bool failure_is_unavailable(void)
 	return (failure_code() & TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV) == TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV;
 }
 
+static inline bool failure_is_reschedule(void)
+{
+	if ((failure_code() & TM_CAUSE_RESCHED) == TM_CAUSE_RESCHED ||
+	    (failure_code() & TM_CAUSE_KVM_RESCHED) == TM_CAUSE_KVM_RESCHED)
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 static inline bool failure_is_nesting(void)
 {
 	return (__builtin_get_texasru() & 0x400000);
-- 
2.19.0



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