[PATCH] perf test: Remove atomics from test_loop to avoid test failures

From: Nick Forrington <nick.forrington@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Nick Forrington <nick.forrington@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf test: Remove atomics from test_loop to avoid test failures
Date: Thu,  2 Nov 2023 16:22:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231102162225.50028-1-nick.forrington@arm.com> (raw)

The current use of atomics can lead to test failures, as tests (such as
tests/shell/record.sh) search for samples with "test_loop" as the
top-most stack frame, but find frames related to the atomic operation
(e.g. __aarch64_ldadd4_relax).

This change simply removes the "count" variable, as it is not necessary.

Fixes: 1962ab6f6e0b ("perf test workload thloop: Make count increments atomic")
Signed-off-by: Nick Forrington <nick.forrington@arm.com>
---
 tools/perf/tests/workloads/thloop.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/workloads/thloop.c b/tools/perf/tests/workloads/thloop.c
index af05269c2eb8..457b29f91c3e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/workloads/thloop.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/workloads/thloop.c
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 #include "../tests.h"
 
 static volatile sig_atomic_t done;
-static volatile unsigned count;
 
 /* We want to check this symbol in perf report */
 noinline void test_loop(void);
@@ -19,8 +18,7 @@ static void sighandler(int sig __maybe_unused)
 
 noinline void test_loop(void)
 {
-	while (!done)
-		__atomic_fetch_add(&count, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
+	while (!done);
 }
 
 static void *thfunc(void *arg)
-- 
2.42.0

