Re: [PATCH v2] perf test: Be more tolerant of metricgroup failures

[Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com>]

On 9/23/24 20:51, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 3:31 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Previously "set -e" meant any non-zero exit code from perf stat would
>> cause a test failure. As a non-zero exit happens when there aren't
>> sufficient permissions, check for this case and make the exit code
>> 2/skip for it.
>>
>> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
>> ---
>> v2. Add skip if event mode isn't valid in per-thread mode. Suggested
>>     by Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com>.
> 
> Ping.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian
> 
>> ---
>>  .../perf/tests/shell/stat_all_metricgroups.sh | 36 +++++++++++++++----
>>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_metricgroups.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_metricgroups.sh
>> index 55ef9c9ded2d..c6d61a4ac3e7 100755
>> --- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_metricgroups.sh
>> +++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_all_metricgroups.sh
>> @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
>> -#!/bin/sh
>> +#!/bin/bash
>>  # perf all metricgroups test
>>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>>
>> -set -e
>> -
>>  ParanoidAndNotRoot()
>>  {
>>    [ "$(id -u)" != 0 ] && [ "$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid)" -gt $1 ]
>> @@ -14,11 +12,37 @@ if ParanoidAndNotRoot 0
>>  then
>>    system_wide_flag=""
>>  fi
>> -
>> +err=0
>>  for m in $(perf list --raw-dump metricgroups)
>>  do
>>    echo "Testing $m"
>> -  perf stat -M "$m" $system_wide_flag sleep 0.01
>> +  result=$(perf stat -M "$m" $system_wide_flag sleep 0.01 2>&1)
>> +  result_err=$?
>> +  if [[ $result_err -gt 0 ]]
>> +  then
>> +    if [[ "$result" =~ \
>> +          "Access to performance monitoring and observability operations is limited" ]]
>> +    then
>> +      echo "Permission failure"
>> +      echo $result
>> +      if [[ $err -eq 0 ]]
>> +      then
>> +        err=2 # Skip
>> +      fi
>> +    elif [[ "$result" =~ "in per-thread mode, enable system wide" ]]
>> +    then
>> +      echo "Permissions - need system wide mode"
>> +      echo $result
>> +      if [[ $err -eq 0 ]]
>> +      then
>> +        err=2 # Skip
>> +      fi
>> +    else
>> +      echo "Metric group $m failed"
>> +      echo $result
>> +      err=1 # Fail
>> +    fi
>> +  fi
>>  done
>>
>> -exit 0
>> +exit $err
>> --
>> 2.45.0.rc1.225.g2a3ae87e7f-goog
>>
> 

Acked-by: Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com>

Thanks,
Veronika