Re: [PATCH] perf test: Add basic stress test for sigtrap handling

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>]

On November 16, 2021 10:57:33 AM GMT-03:00, Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 09:51AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> Em Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:28:23PM +0100, Marco Elver escreveu:
>> > Add basic stress test for sigtrap handling as a perf tool built-in test.
>> > This allows sanity checking the basic sigtrap functionality from within
>> > the perf tool.
>> 
>> Works as root:
>> 
>> [root@five ~]# perf test sigtrap
>> 73: Sigtrap                                                         : Ok
>> [root@five ~]
>> 
>> Not for !root:
>[...]
>> FAILED sys_perf_event_open(): Permission denied
>> test child finished with -1
>> ---- end ----
>> Sigtrap: FAILED!
>
>Ah, that shouldn't be the case. It's missing exclude_kernel/hv, and this
>test should work just fine as non-root. Please squash the below as well.
>Let me know if you'd like a v2.

I'll squash

>
>Ack for your change printing errors as well.
>
>Thanks,
>-- Marco
>
>------ >8 ------
>
>From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
>Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 14:52:18 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH] fixup! perf test: Add basic stress test for sigtrap handling
>
>Exclude kernel/hypervisor so the test can run as non-root.
>
>Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
>---
> tools/perf/tests/sigtrap.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/sigtrap.c b/tools/perf/tests/sigtrap.c
>index febfa1609356..e566f855bf74 100644
>--- a/tools/perf/tests/sigtrap.c
>+++ b/tools/perf/tests/sigtrap.c
>@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ static struct perf_event_attr make_event_attr(void)
> 		.remove_on_exec = 1, /* Required by sigtrap. */
> 		.sigtrap	= 1, /* Request synchronous SIGTRAP on event. */
> 		.sig_data	= TEST_SIG_DATA,
>+		.exclude_kernel = 1,
>+		.exclude_hv	= 1,
> 	};
> 	return attr;
> }