This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

perf test attr: Fix python error on empty result

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: perf-test-attr-fix-python-error-on-empty-result.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Wed Dec 6 18:04:41 CET 2017

From: Thomas Richter tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:12:08 +0200 Subject: perf test attr: Fix python error on empty result

From: Thomas Richter tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com

[ Upstream commit 3440fe2790aa3d13530260af6033533b18959aee ]

Commit d78ada4a767 ("perf tests attr: Do not store failed events") does not create an event file in the /tmp directory when the perf_open_event() system call failed.

This can lead to a situation where not /tmp/event-xx-yy-zz result file exists at all (for example on a s390x virtual machine environment) where no CPUMF hardware is available.

The following command then fails with a python call back chain instead of printing failure:

[root@s8360046 perf]# /usr/bin/python2 ./tests/attr.py -d ./tests/attr/ \ -p ./perf -v -ttest-stat-basic running './tests/attr//test-stat-basic' Traceback (most recent call last): File "./tests/attr.py", line 379, in <module> main() File "./tests/attr.py", line 370, in main run_tests(options) File "./tests/attr.py", line 311, in run_tests Test(f, options).run() File "./tests/attr.py", line 300, in run self.compare(self.expect, self.result) File "./tests/attr.py", line 248, in compare exp_event.diff(res_event) UnboundLocalError: local variable 'res_event' referenced before assignment [root@s8360046 perf]#

This patch catches this pitfall and prints an error message instead:

[root@s8360047 perf]# /usr/bin/python2 ./tests/attr.py -d ./tests/attr/ \ -p ./perf -vvv -ttest-stat-basic running './tests/attr//test-stat-basic' loading expected events Event event:base-stat fd = 1 group_fd = -1 flags = 0|8 [....] sample_regs_user = 0 sample_stack_user = 0 'PERF_TEST_ATTR=/tmp/tmpJbMQMP ./perf stat -o /tmp/tmpJbMQMP/perf.data -e cycles kill >/dev/null 2>&1' ret '1', expected '1' loading result events compare matching [event:base-stat] match: [event:base-stat] matches [] res_event is empty FAILED './tests/attr//test-stat-basic' - match failure [root@s8360047 perf]#

Signed-off-by: Thomas-Mich Richter tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Acked-by: Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org Cc: Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Cc: Hendrik Brueckner brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com LPU-Reference: 20170913081209.39570-1-tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-04d63nn7svfgxdhi60gq2mlm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- tools/perf/tests/attr.py | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/perf/tests/attr.py +++ b/tools/perf/tests/attr.py @@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ class Test(object): # events in result. Fail if there's not any. for exp_name, exp_event in expect.items(): exp_list = [] + res_event = {} log.debug(" matching [%s]" % exp_name) for res_name, res_event in result.items(): log.debug(" to [%s]" % res_name) @@ -254,7 +255,10 @@ class Test(object): if exp_event.optional(): log.debug(" %s does not match, but is optional" % exp_name) else: - exp_event.diff(res_event) + if not res_event: + log.debug(" res_event is empty"); + else: + exp_event.diff(res_event) raise Fail(self, 'match failure');

match[exp_name] = exp_list

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.14/perf-test-attr-fix-ignored-test-case-result.patch queue-4.14/perf-test-attr-fix-python-error-on-empty-result.patch