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Steven Rostedt c5c413534d selftests/tracing: Have trigger-hist-poll.tc use sched_process_exit
Currently trigger-hist-poll.tc uses sched_process_free to test the polling
of the histogram file. The way it does that is to run sleep, then execute
the poll.c code that polls on the sched_process_free for up to 4 seconds
to test that when sleep triggers the sched_process_free trace event, it
will update the histogram and wake the poll.c code up.

The issue is that sched_process_free trace event is called by
delayed_put_task_struct() which is called after a RCU grace period has
ended. If CONFIG_RCU_LAZY is enabled, RCU callbacks are batched together
and do not execute right away. This causes the delayed_put_task_struct()
to be called after the poll.c function finishes and it will report an
error that it did not wake up on the event. That's because the event
didn't trigger during its wait time.

Use sched_process_exit instead, which is called when a process exits and
doesn't depend on RCU callbacks that may be delayed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260708163436.058cc3df@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
2026-07-10 10:14:42 -06:00
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Linux Ftrace Testcases

This is a collection of testcases for ftrace tracing feature in the Linux
kernel. Since ftrace exports interfaces via the debugfs, we just need
shell scripts for testing. Feel free to add new test cases.

Running the ftrace testcases
============================

At first, you need to be the root user to run this script.
To run all testcases:

  $ sudo ./ftracetest

To run specific testcases:

  # ./ftracetest test.d/basic3.tc

Or you can also run testcases under given directory:

  # ./ftracetest test.d/kprobe/

Contributing new testcases
==========================

Copy test.d/template to your testcase (whose filename must have *.tc
extension) and rewrite the test description line.

 * The working directory of the script is <debugfs>/tracing/.

 * Take care with side effects as the tests are run with root privilege.

 * The tests should not run for a long period of time (more than 1 min.)
   These are to be unit tests.

 * You can add a directory for your testcases under test.d/ if needed.

 * The test cases should run on dash (busybox shell) for testing on
   minimal cross-build environments.

 * Note that the tests are run with "set -e" (errexit) option. If any
   command fails, the test will be terminated immediately.

 * The tests can return some result codes instead of pass or fail by
   using exit_unresolved, exit_untested, exit_unsupported and exit_xfail.

Result code
===========

Ftracetest supports following result codes.

 * PASS: The test succeeded as expected. The test which exits with 0 is
         counted as passed test.

 * FAIL: The test failed, but was expected to succeed. The test which exits
         with !0 is counted as failed test.

 * UNRESOLVED: The test produced unclear or intermidiate results.
             for example, the test was interrupted
                       or the test depends on a previous test, which failed.
                       or the test was set up incorrectly
             The test which is in above situation, must call exit_unresolved.

 * UNTESTED: The test was not run, currently just a placeholder.
             In this case, the test must call exit_untested.

 * UNSUPPORTED: The test failed because of lack of feature.
               In this case, the test must call exit_unsupported.

 * XFAIL: The test failed, and was expected to fail.
          To return XFAIL, call exit_xfail from the test.

There are some sample test scripts for result code under samples/.
You can also run samples as below:

  # ./ftracetest samples/

TODO
====

 * Fancy colored output :)