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

perf test attr: Fix ignored test case result

to the 3.18-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-ignored-test-case-result.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Tue Dec 5 18:18:39 CET 2017

From: Thomas Richter tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:12:09 +0200 Subject: perf test attr: Fix ignored test case result

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

[ Upstream commit 22905582f6dd4bbd0c370fe5732c607452010c04 ]

Command perf test -v 16 (Setup struct perf_event_attr test) always reports success even if the test case fails. It works correctly if you also specify -F (for don't fork).

root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf test -v 16 15: Setup struct perf_event_attr : --- start --- running './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay' [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB /tmp/tmp4E1h7R/perf.data (1 samples) ] expected task=0, got 1 expected precise_ip=0, got 3 expected wakeup_events=1, got 0 FAILED './tests/attr/test-record-no-delay' - match failure test child finished with 0 ---- end ---- Setup struct perf_event_attr: Ok

The reason for the wrong error reporting is the return value of the system() library call. It is called in run_dir() file tests/attr.c and returns the exit status, in above case 0xff00.

This value is given as parameter to the exit() function which can only handle values 0-0xff.

The child process terminates with exit value of 0 and the parent does not detect any error.

This patch corrects the error reporting and prints the correct test result.

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: 20170913081209.39570-2-tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rdube6rfcjsr1nzue72c7lqn@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.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/perf/tests/attr.c +++ b/tools/perf/tests/attr.c @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int run_dir(const char *d, const snprintf(cmd, 3*PATH_MAX, PYTHON " %s/attr.py -d %s/attr/ -p %s %.*s", d, d, perf, vcnt, v);

- return system(cmd); + return system(cmd) ? TEST_FAIL : TEST_OK; }

int test__attr(void)

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

queue-3.18/perf-test-attr-fix-ignored-test-case-result.patch