2022-02-17 17:49:11

by John Garry

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Subject: [PATCH] perf test: Skip Sigtrap test for arm+aarch64

Skip the Sigtrap test for arm + arm64, same as was done for s390 in
commit a840974e96fd ("perf test: Test 73 Sig_trap fails on s390").

As described by Will at [0], in the test we get stuck in a loop of handling
the HW breakpoint exception and never making progress. GDB handles this
by stepping over the faulting instruction, but with perf the kernel is
expected to handle the step (which it doesn't for arm).

Dmitry made an attempt to get this work, also mentioned in the same thread
as [0], which was appreciated. But the best thing to do is skip the test
for now.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20220118124343.GC98966@leoy-ThinkPad-X240s/T/#m13b06c39d2a5100d340f009435df6f4d8ee57b5a

Fixes: Fixes: 5504f67944484 ("perf test sigtrap: Add basic stress test for sigtrap handling")
Signed-off-by: John Garry <[email protected]>

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/sigtrap.c b/tools/perf/tests/sigtrap.c
index 1f147fe6595f..3f0b5c1398b5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/sigtrap.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/sigtrap.c
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
* Just disable the test for these architectures until these issues are
* resolved.
*/
-#if defined(__powerpc__) || defined(__s390x__)
+#if defined(__powerpc__) || defined(__s390x__) || \
+ defined(__arm__) || defined(__aarch64__)
#define BP_ACCOUNT_IS_SUPPORTED 0
#else
#define BP_ACCOUNT_IS_SUPPORTED 1
--
2.26.2