Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] test/atomic: fix false failures for 128-bit atomic compare exchange test

[Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of David Christensen
> Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 1:41 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Phil Yang <Phil.Yang@arm.com>; stable@dpdk.org; David Christensen
> <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] test/atomic: fix false failures for 128-bit atomic
> compare exchange test
> 
> When checking the results of the rte_atomic128_cmp_exchange() function,
> current code compares the values of a uint32_t and a uint64_t variable.
> If the number of lcores used by the test is large, or the value of the iteration
> count N is increased, the variable size mimatch can cause a false test failure.
> Modify the comparison to compare uint64_t values.
> 
> Fixes: fa3253c534b1 ("test/atomic: add 128-bit atomic compare exchange
> test")
> Cc: phil.yang@arm.com

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I reproduced the issue on a 160-core aarch64 machine with increased N.

Tested-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  app/test/test_atomic.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/app/test/test_atomic.c b/app/test/test_atomic.c index
> f10f555af8..ce0c259bd7 100644
> --- a/app/test/test_atomic.c
> +++ b/app/test/test_atomic.c
> @@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ test_atomic(void)
>  	rte_atomic32_clear(&synchro);
> 
>  	iterations = count128.val[0] - count128.val[1];
> -	if (iterations != 4*N*(rte_lcore_count()-1)) {
> +	if (iterations != (uint64_t)4*N*(rte_lcore_count()-1)) {
>  		printf("128-bit compare and swap failed\n");
>  		return -1;
>  	}
> --
> 2.27.0