selftests/resctrl: Remove "once" parameter required to be false

The CMT, MBM, and MBA tests rely on a benchmark that runs while
the test makes changes to needed configuration (for example memory
bandwidth allocation) and takes needed measurements. By default
the "fill_buf" benchmark is used and by default (via its
"once = false" setting) "fill_buf" is configured to run until
terminated after the test completes.

An unintended consequence of enabling the user to override the
benchmark also enables the user to change parameters to the
"fill_buf" benchmark. This enables the user to set "fill_buf" to
only cycle through the buffer once (by setting "once = true")
and thus breaking the CMT, MBA, and MBM tests that expect
workload/interference to be reflected by their measurements.

Prevent user space from changing the "once" parameter and ensure
that it is always false for the CMT, MBA, and MBM tests.

Suggested-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
index 2dda56084588..51f5f4b25e06 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ int perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *hw_event, pid_t pid, int cpu,
 unsigned char *alloc_buffer(size_t buf_size, int memflush);
 void mem_flush(unsigned char *buf, size_t buf_size);
 void fill_cache_read(unsigned char *buf, size_t buf_size, bool once);
-int run_fill_buf(size_t buf_size, int memflush, int op, bool once);
+int run_fill_buf(size_t buf_size, int memflush, int op);
 int initialize_mem_bw_imc(void);
 int measure_mem_bw(const struct user_params *uparams,
 		   struct resctrl_val_param *param, pid_t bm_pid,