Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests/cgroup: Avoid awk -e in cpuset tests

[Ridong Chen <ridong.chen@linux.dev>]

On 8/9/2026 4:21 PM, Rui Qi wrote:
> The cpuset selftests use awk -e to parse cgroup mount points. This
> works with gawk, but mawk rejects the option. In test_cpuset_prs.sh,
> this leaves CGROUP2 empty and causes the test to skip as if cgroup v2
> were not mounted. The same non-portable invocation exists in the cpuset
> v1 hotplug test.
> 
> The scripts only need to pass a single awk program. Use the standard awk
> invocation without -e so mount point detection works with awk
> implementations that do not support the gawk extension.
> 
> Fixes: a8c52eba880a ("kselftest/cgroup: Add cpuset v2 partition root state test")
> Fixes: 812c5945bdb8 ("cgroup/cpuset: Add test_cpuset_v1_hp.sh")
> Signed-off-by: Rui Qi <qirui.001@bytedance.com>
> ---
>   tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh   | 2 +-
>   tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_v1_hp.sh | 2 +-
>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh
> index 400a696a0d21..16c38eb11e63 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ skip_test() {
>   WAIT_INOTIFY=$(cd $(dirname $0); pwd)/wait_inotify
>   
>   # Find cgroup v2 mount point
> -CGROUP2=$(mount -t cgroup2 | head -1 | awk -e '{print $3}')
> +CGROUP2=$(mount -t cgroup2 | head -1 | awk '{print $3}')
>   [[ -n "$CGROUP2" ]] || skip_test "Cgroup v2 mount point not found!"
>   SUBPARTS_CPUS=$CGROUP2/.__DEBUG__.cpuset.cpus.subpartitions
>   CPULIST=$(cat $CGROUP2/cpuset.cpus.effective)
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_v1_hp.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_v1_hp.sh
> index 7406c24be1ac..da97f1643f9a 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_v1_hp.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_v1_hp.sh
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ skip_test() {
>   [[ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]] || skip_test "Test must be run as root!"
>   
>   # Find cpuset v1 mount point
> -CPUSET=$(mount -t cgroup | grep cpuset | head -1 | awk -e '{print $3}')
> +CPUSET=$(mount -t cgroup | grep cpuset | head -1 | awk '{print $3}')
>   [[ -n "$CPUSET" ]] || skip_test "cpuset v1 mount point not found!"
>   
>   #

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Ridong Chen <ridong.chen@linux.dev>

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Best regards
Ridong