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Matt Bobrowski a8cf555fd7 selftests/bpf: Improve reliability of test_perf_branches_no_hw() 
[ Upstream commit ae24fc8a16 ]

Currently, test_perf_branches_no_hw() relies on the busy loop within
test_perf_branches_common() being slow enough to allow at least one
perf event sample tick to occur before starting to tear down the
backing perf event BPF program. With a relatively small fixed
iteration count of 1,000,000, this is not guaranteed on modern fast
CPUs, resulting in the test run to subsequently fail with the
following:

bpf_testmod.ko is already unloaded.
Loading bpf_testmod.ko...
Successfully loaded bpf_testmod.ko.
test_perf_branches_common:PASS:test_perf_branches_load 0 nsec
test_perf_branches_common:PASS:attach_perf_event 0 nsec
test_perf_branches_common:PASS:set_affinity 0 nsec
check_good_sample:PASS:output not valid 0 nsec
check_good_sample:PASS:read_branches_size 0 nsec
check_good_sample:PASS:read_branches_stack 0 nsec
check_good_sample:PASS:read_branches_stack 0 nsec
check_good_sample:PASS:read_branches_global 0 nsec
check_good_sample:PASS:read_branches_global 0 nsec
check_good_sample:PASS:read_branches_size 0 nsec
test_perf_branches_no_hw:PASS:perf_event_open 0 nsec
test_perf_branches_common:PASS:test_perf_branches_load 0 nsec
test_perf_branches_common:PASS:attach_perf_event 0 nsec
test_perf_branches_common:PASS:set_affinity 0 nsec
check_bad_sample:FAIL:output not valid no valid sample from prog
Summary: 0/1 PASSED, 0 SKIPPED, 1 FAILED
Successfully unloaded bpf_testmod.ko.

On a modern CPU (i.e. one with a 3.5 GHz clock rate), executing 1
million increments of a volatile integer can take significantly less
than 1 millisecond. If the spin loop and detachment of the perf event
BPF program elapses before the first 1 ms sampling interval elapses,
the perf event will never end up firing. Fix this by bumping the loop
iteration counter a little within test_perf_branches_common(), along
with ensuring adding another loop termination condition which is
directly influenced by the backing perf event BPF program
executing. Notably, a concious decision was made to not adjust the
sample_freq value as that is just not a reliable way to go about
fixing the problem. It effectively still leaves the race window open.

Fixes: 67306f84ca ("selftests/bpf: Add bpf_read_branch_records() selftest")
Signed-off-by: Matt Bobrowski <mattbobrowski@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251119143540.2911424-1-mattbobrowski@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-12-18 14:03:11 +01:00
arch powerpc/64s/ptdump: Fix kernel_hash_pagetable dump for ISA v3.00 HPTE format 2025-12-18 14:03:04 +01:00
block block/blk-throttle: Fix throttle slice time for SSDs 2025-12-18 14:03:03 +01:00
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crypto crypto: asymmetric_keys - prevent overflow in asymmetric_key_generate_id 2025-12-18 14:02:35 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: PCI: amlogic: Fix the register name of the DBI region 2025-12-18 14:02:54 +01:00
drivers regulator: pca9450: Fix error code in probe() 2025-12-18 14:03:11 +01:00
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ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel cpuset: Treat cpusets in attaching as populated 2025-12-18 14:03:09 +01:00
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net wifi: mac80211: fix CMAC functions not handling errors 2025-12-18 14:03:06 +01:00
rust rust: Add -fno-isolate-erroneous-paths-dereference to bindgen_skip_c_flags 2025-11-10 08:37:06 +08:00
samples samples: work around glibc redefining some of our defines wrong 2025-11-21 09:29:02 -08:00
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.mailmap 8 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable, 7 are against mm/. 2025-11-26 12:38:05 -08:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
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Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS soc: fixes for 6.18, part 4 2025-11-28 09:57:31 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.18.1 2025-12-12 18:42:47 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.