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[2/5] selftests/resctrl: Remove duplicate feature check from CMT test

Message ID 20230911111930.16088-3-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 030b48fb2cf045dead8ee2c5ead560930044c029
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Series selftests/resctrl: Fixes to failing tests | expand

Commit Message

Ilpo Järvinen Sept. 11, 2023, 11:19 a.m. UTC
The test runner run_cmt_test() in resctrl_tests.c checks for CMT
feature and does not run cmt_resctrl_val() if CMT is not supported.
Then cmt_resctrl_val() also check is CMT is supported.

Remove the duplicated feature check for CMT from cmt_resctrl_val().

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cmt_test.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Reinette Chatre Sept. 12, 2023, 10:06 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Ilpo,

On 9/11/2023 4:19 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> The test runner run_cmt_test() in resctrl_tests.c checks for CMT
> feature and does not run cmt_resctrl_val() if CMT is not supported.
> Then cmt_resctrl_val() also check is CMT is supported.
> 
> Remove the duplicated feature check for CMT from cmt_resctrl_val().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>

This does not look like stable material to me. 

Reinette
Ilpo Järvinen Sept. 13, 2023, 11:11 a.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, 12 Sep 2023, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> On 9/11/2023 4:19 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > The test runner run_cmt_test() in resctrl_tests.c checks for CMT
> > feature and does not run cmt_resctrl_val() if CMT is not supported.
> > Then cmt_resctrl_val() also check is CMT is supported.
> > 
> > Remove the duplicated feature check for CMT from cmt_resctrl_val().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> 
> This does not look like stable material to me. 

I know but when constructing this series I had 2 options:

Either convert also this when changing validate_resctrl_feature_request() 
or remove this call entirely.

Given it's duplicate of the other CMT check, I chose to just remove it 
(which I'd do anyway). As patch 4/5 requires 3/5 which in turn requires 
this, this has to go stable if 4/5 goes too.
Reinette Chatre Sept. 13, 2023, 8:58 p.m. UTC | #3
Hi Ilpo,

On 9/13/2023 4:11 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2023, Reinette Chatre wrote:
>> On 9/11/2023 4:19 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>>> The test runner run_cmt_test() in resctrl_tests.c checks for CMT
>>> feature and does not run cmt_resctrl_val() if CMT is not supported.
>>> Then cmt_resctrl_val() also check is CMT is supported.
>>>
>>> Remove the duplicated feature check for CMT from cmt_resctrl_val().
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
>>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>>
>> This does not look like stable material to me. 
> 
> I know but when constructing this series I had 2 options:
> 
> Either convert also this when changing validate_resctrl_feature_request() 
> or remove this call entirely.
> 
> Given it's duplicate of the other CMT check, I chose to just remove it 
> (which I'd do anyway). As patch 4/5 requires 3/5 which in turn requires 
> this, this has to go stable if 4/5 goes too.
> 

Understood. This makes it a dependency of an actual fix, which is addressed
in 4/5's sign-off area. This notation is new to me but it is not clear to me
that the dependency should also be tagged as stable material (without a 
fixes tag). Since it is not an actual fix by itself yet is sent to @stable
I think it may cause confusion. Is just listing it as a dependency of the
actual fix not sufficient (as you already do in 4/5)? Perhaps as compromise
this patch can also get a note to the stable team. Something like:

	Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # dependency of "selftests/resctrl: Fix feature checks"

I am not sure though - I would like to avoid confusion and not burden
the stable team. If this is a flow you have used before successfully I'd
defer to your experience.

Reinette
Ilpo Järvinen Sept. 14, 2023, 9:58 a.m. UTC | #4
On Wed, 13 Sep 2023, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> On 9/13/2023 4:11 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Sep 2023, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> >> On 9/11/2023 4:19 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> >>> The test runner run_cmt_test() in resctrl_tests.c checks for CMT
> >>> feature and does not run cmt_resctrl_val() if CMT is not supported.
> >>> Then cmt_resctrl_val() also check is CMT is supported.
> >>>
> >>> Remove the duplicated feature check for CMT from cmt_resctrl_val().
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
> >>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> >>
> >> This does not look like stable material to me. 
> > 
> > I know but when constructing this series I had 2 options:
> > 
> > Either convert also this when changing validate_resctrl_feature_request() 
> > or remove this call entirely.
> > 
> > Given it's duplicate of the other CMT check, I chose to just remove it 
> > (which I'd do anyway). As patch 4/5 requires 3/5 which in turn requires 
> > this, this has to go stable if 4/5 goes too.
> > 
> 
> Understood. This makes it a dependency of an actual fix, which is addressed
> in 4/5's sign-off area. This notation is new to me but it is not clear to me
> that the dependency should also be tagged as stable material (without a 
> fixes tag). Since it is not an actual fix by itself yet is sent to @stable
> I think it may cause confusion. Is just listing it as a dependency of the
> actual fix not sufficient (as you already do in 4/5)? Perhaps as compromise
> this patch can also get a note to the stable team. Something like:
> 
> 	Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # dependency of "selftests/resctrl: Fix feature checks"
> 
> I am not sure though - I would like to avoid confusion and not burden
> the stable team. If this is a flow you have used before successfully I'd
> defer to your experience.

I came across that dependency format when Greg KH replied to somebody how 
to deal with the cases where there isn't yet a commit id 
(the cases mentioned in Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst 
assumes there is already a commit id). Unfortunately it's long time ago 
so I cannot easily find the link.

Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst doesn't state that the 
stable address should be only used for the patches with Fixes. In general, 
I believe this doesn't matter much because whether something is Cc'ed or 
not to stable@vger.kernel.org doesn't seems to impact the decision if a 
patch goes into stable or not (even if even some maintainers seem to 
pretend leaving it out makes a difference so I tend to play along and 
smile myself how incorrect that assumption is :-)).
Reinette Chatre Sept. 14, 2023, 3:04 p.m. UTC | #5
Hi Ilpo,

On 9/14/2023 2:58 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2023, Reinette Chatre wrote:
>> On 9/13/2023 4:11 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>>> On Tue, 12 Sep 2023, Reinette Chatre wrote:
>>>> On 9/11/2023 4:19 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>>>>> The test runner run_cmt_test() in resctrl_tests.c checks for CMT
>>>>> feature and does not run cmt_resctrl_val() if CMT is not supported.
>>>>> Then cmt_resctrl_val() also check is CMT is supported.
>>>>>
>>>>> Remove the duplicated feature check for CMT from cmt_resctrl_val().
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
>>>>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>>>>
>>>> This does not look like stable material to me. 
>>>
>>> I know but when constructing this series I had 2 options:
>>>
>>> Either convert also this when changing validate_resctrl_feature_request() 
>>> or remove this call entirely.
>>>
>>> Given it's duplicate of the other CMT check, I chose to just remove it 
>>> (which I'd do anyway). As patch 4/5 requires 3/5 which in turn requires 
>>> this, this has to go stable if 4/5 goes too.
>>>
>>
>> Understood. This makes it a dependency of an actual fix, which is addressed
>> in 4/5's sign-off area. This notation is new to me but it is not clear to me
>> that the dependency should also be tagged as stable material (without a 
>> fixes tag). Since it is not an actual fix by itself yet is sent to @stable
>> I think it may cause confusion. Is just listing it as a dependency of the
>> actual fix not sufficient (as you already do in 4/5)? Perhaps as compromise
>> this patch can also get a note to the stable team. Something like:
>>
>> 	Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # dependency of "selftests/resctrl: Fix feature checks"
>>
>> I am not sure though - I would like to avoid confusion and not burden
>> the stable team. If this is a flow you have used before successfully I'd
>> defer to your experience.
> 
> I came across that dependency format when Greg KH replied to somebody how 
> to deal with the cases where there isn't yet a commit id 
> (the cases mentioned in Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst 
> assumes there is already a commit id). Unfortunately it's long time ago 
> so I cannot easily find the link.

I see, thank you. I was not aware of this custom.

Reinette
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diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cmt_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cmt_test.c
index cf2f5e92dea6..50bdbce9fba9 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cmt_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cmt_test.c
@@ -80,9 +80,6 @@  int cmt_resctrl_val(int cpu_no, int n, const char * const *benchmark_cmd)
 	size_t span;
 	int ret, i;
 
-	if (!validate_resctrl_feature_request(CMT_STR))
-		return -1;
-
 	ret = get_cbm_mask("L3", cbm_mask);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;