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CAT test spawns two processes into two different control groups with
exclusive schemata. Both the processes alloc a buffer from memory
matching their allocated LLC block size and flush the entire buffer out
of caches. Since the processes are reading through the buffer only once
during the measurement and initially all the buffer was flushed, the
test isn't testing CAT.
Rewrite the CAT test to allocate a buffer sized to half of LLC. Then
perform a sequence of tests with different LLC alloc sizes starting
from half of the CBM bits down to 1-bit CBM. Flush the buffer before
each test and read the buffer twice. Observe the LLC misses on the
second read through the buffer. As the allocated LLC block gets smaller
and smaller, the LLC misses will become larger and larger giving a
strong signal on CAT working properly.
The new CAT test is using only a single process because it relies on
measured effect against another run of itself rather than another
process adding noise. The rest of the system is set to use the CBM bits
not used by the CAT test to keep the test isolated.
Replace count_bits() with count_contiguous_bits() to get the first bit
position in order to be able to calculate masks based on it.
This change has been tested with a number of systems from different
generations.
Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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When reading memory in order, HW prefetching optimizations will
interfere with measuring how caches and memory are being accessed. This
adds noise into the results.
Change the fill_buf reading loop to not use an obvious in-order access
using multiply by a prime and modulo.
Using a prime multiplier with modulo ensures the entire buffer is
eventually read. 23 is small enough that the reads are spread out but
wrapping does not occur very frequently (wrapping too often can trigger
L2 hits more frequently which causes noise to the test because getting
the data from LLC is not required).
It was discovered that not all primes work equally well and some can
cause wildly unstable results (e.g., in an earlier version of this
patch, the reads were done in reversed order and 59 was used as the
prime resulting in unacceptably high and unstable results in MBA and
MBM test on some architectures).
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/TYAPR01MB6330025B5E6537F94DA49ACB8B499@TYAPR01MB6330.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com/
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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The fill_buf code prevents compiler optimizating the entire read loop
away by writing the final value of the variable into a file. While it
achieves the goal, writing into a file requires significant amount of
work within the innermost test loop and also error handling.
A simpler approach is to take advantage of volatile. Writing through
a pointer to a volatile variable is enough to prevent compiler from
optimizing the write away, and therefore compiler cannot remove the
read loop either.
Add a volatile 'value_sink' into resctrl_tests.c and make fill_buf to
write into it. As a result, the error handling in fill_buf.c can be
simplified.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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There are unnecessary nested calls in fill_buf.c:
- run_fill_buf() calls fill_cache()
- alloc_buffer() calls malloc_and_init_memory()
Simplify the code flow and remove those unnecessary call levels by
moving the called code inside the calling function and remove the
duplicated error print.
Resolve the difference in run_fill_buf() and fill_cache() parameter
name into 'buf_size' which is more descriptive than 'span'. Also, while
moving the allocation related code, rename 'p' into 'buf' to be
consistent in naming the variables.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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MBM, MBA and CMT test cases call run_fill_buf() that in turn calls
fill_cache() to alloc and loop indefinitely around the buffer. This
binds buffer allocation and running the benchmark into a single bundle
so that a selftest cannot allocate a buffer once and reuse it. CAT test
doesn't want to loop around the buffer continuously and after rewrite
it needs the ability to allocate the buffer separately.
Split buffer allocation out of fill_cache() into alloc_buffer(). This
change is part of preparation for the new CAT test that allocates a
buffer and does multiple passes over the same buffer (but not in an
infinite loop).
Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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The resctrl selftest code contains a number of perror() calls. Some of
them come with hash character and some don't. The kselftest framework
provides ksft_perror() that is compatible with test output formatting
so it should be used instead of adding custom hash signs.
Some perror() calls are too far away from anything that sets error.
For those call sites, ksft_print_msg() must be used instead.
Convert perror() to ksft_perror() or ksft_print_msg().
Other related changes:
- Remove hash signs
- Remove trailing stops & newlines from ksft_perror()
- Add terminating newlines for converted ksft_print_msg()
- Use consistent capitalization
- Small fixes/tweaks to typos & grammar of the messages
- Extract error printing out of PARENT_EXIT() to be able to
differentiate
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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Test name is passed to fill_buf functions so that they can loop around
buffer only once. This is required for CAT test case.
To loop around buffer only once, caller doesn't need to let fill_buf
know which test case it is. Instead, pass a boolean argument 'once'
which makes fill_buf more generic.
As run_benchmark() no longer needs to pass the test name to
run_fill_buf(), a few test running functions can be simplified to not
write the test name into the default benchmark_cmd. The has_ben
argument can also be removed now from those test running functions.
Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu) <tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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fill_buf's arguments can be improved in multiple ways:
- Multiple functions in fill_buf have start_ptr as one of their
argument which is a bit long and the extra "start" is pretty
obvious when it comes to pointers.
- Some of the functions take end_ptr and others size_t to indicate
the end of the buffer.
- Some arguments meaning buffer size are called just 's'
- mem_flush() takes void * but immediately converts it to char *
Cleanup the parameters to make things simpler and more consistent:
- Rename start_ptr to simply buf as it's shorter.
- Replace end_ptr and s parameters with buf_size and only calculate
end_ptr in the functions that truly use it.
- Make mem_flush() parameters to follow the same convention as the
other functions in fill_buf.
- convert mem_flush() char * to unsigned char *.
While at it, fix also a typo in a comment.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu) <tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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fill_buf stores buffer pointer into global variable startptr that is
only used in fill_cache().
Remove startptr as global variable, the local variable in fill_cache()
is enough to keep the pointer.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu) <tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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run_fill_buf()'s malloc_and_init_memory parameter is always 1. There's
also duplicated memory init code for malloc_and_init_memory == 0 case
in fill_buf() which is unused.
Remove the malloc_and_init_memory parameter and the duplicated mem init
code.
While at it, fix also a typo in run_fill_buf() prototype's argument.
Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu) <tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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Span is defined either as unsigned long or int.
Consistently use size_t everywhere for span as it refers to size of the
memory block.
Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu) <tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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The error path in fill_cache() does return before the allocated buffer
is freed leaking the buffer.
The leak was introduced when fill_cache_read() started to return errors
in commit c7b607fa9325 ("selftests/resctrl: Fix null pointer
dereference on open failed"), before that both fill functions always
returned 0.
Move free() earlier to prevent the mem leak.
Fixes: c7b607fa9325 ("selftests/resctrl: Fix null pointer dereference on open failed")
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu) <tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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tests
After creating a child process with fork() in CAT test, if a signal such
as SIGINT is received, the parent process will be terminated immediately,
and therefore the child process will not be killed and also resctrlfs is
not unmounted.
There is a signal handler registered in CMT/MBM/MBA tests, which kills
child process, unmount resctrlfs, cleanups result files, etc., if a
signal such as SIGINT is received.
Commonize the signal handler registered for CMT/MBM/MBA tests and
reuse it in CAT.
To reuse the signal handler to kill child process use global bm_pid
instead of local bm_pid.
Also, since the MBA/MBA/CMT/CAT are run in order, unregister the signal
handler at the end of each test so that the signal handler cannot be
inherited by other tests.
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Jarvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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memalign() is obsolete according to its manpage.
Replace memalign() with posix_memalign() and remove malloc.h include
that was there for memalign().
As a pointer is passed into posix_memalign(), initialize *p to NULL
to silence a warning about the function's return value being used as
uninitialized (which is not valid anyway because the error is properly
checked before p is returned).
Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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malloc_and_init_memory() in fill_buf isn't checking if memalign()
successfully allocated memory or not before accessing the memory.
Check the return value of memalign() and return NULL if allocating
aligned memory fails.
Fixes: a2561b12fe39 ("selftests/resctrl: Add built in benchmark")
Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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Currently if opening /dev/null fails to open then file pointer fp
is null and further access to fp via fprintf will cause a null
pointer dereference. Fix this by returning a negative error value
when a null fp is detected.
Detected using cppcheck static analysis:
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c:124:6: note: Assuming
that condition '!fp' is not redundant
if (!fp)
^
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c:126:10: note: Null
pointer dereference
fprintf(fp, "Sum: %d ", ret);
Fixes: a2561b12fe39 ("selftests/resctrl: Add built in benchmark")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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Checking resctrl features call strcmp() to compare feature strings
(e.g. "mba", "cat" etc). The checkings are error prone and don't have
good coding style. Define the constant strings in macros and call
strncmp() to solve the potential issues.
Suggested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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There are two spelling mistakes in error messages. Fix these.
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) selftest allocates a portion of
last level cache and starts a benchmark to read each cache
line in this portion of cache. Measure the cache misses in perf and
the misses should be equal to the number of cache lines in this
portion of cache.
We don't use CQM to calculate cache usage because some CAT enabled
platforms don't have CQM.
Co-developed-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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Built-in benchmark fill_buf generates stressful memory bandwidth
and cache traffic.
Later it will be used as a default benchmark by various resctrl tests
such as MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation) and MBM (Memory Bandwidth
Monitoring) tests.
Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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