Re: IBS perf test failures on 9950x3d

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

Hi Ravi,

On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 05:33:19PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> Hi Arnaldo,
> 
> > If it needs a specific kernel, then the test needs to cope with that,
> > etc.
> 
> 1) Bunch of IBS kernel fixes went in recently (v6.15-rc1):
> 
>    https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250115054438.1021-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
> 
>    Since you are running on 6.14.5-300.fc42.x86_64, the failures are
>    genuine and indicating that kernel should be fixed.
> 
>    I'm wondering how would the test cope with the buggy kernel. Or
>    probably 'perf test' a wrong place to put such selftests?

Maybe... some kernel internal changes can be tested in the selftest.

And 'perf test' should work with any kernel versions.  Is the test
checking any invalid configs?  Probably then it should move to the
selftest so that it can be tied to the fixed kernels and 'perf test'
should only use valid configs.

Thanks,
Namhyung

> 
> 2) "mprotect() failed. Permission denied" seems to be because of
>    SELinux enforced mode? I'll prepare and post a fix but, even
>    with the error, it's just part of the dummy workload function
>    so wouldn't break any test functionality.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ravi