ACK: [PATCH] UBUNTU: SAUCE: ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test: fix test missing file names

Guilherme Piccoli gpiccoli at canonical.com
Thu Jun 3 11:17:05 UTC 2021


On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 7:36 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> The sysdig is unable to report the name of file used in reads and
> writes.  This maybe worked some time ago, but definitely does not work
> with sysdig 0.27.1.
>
> For dd, cat or cp, the sysdig reports only arguments:
>   cp (3558) < execve res=0 exe=cp args=/tmp/somefile./tmp/otherfile. tid=3558(cp) pid=3558(cp) ptid=1151(bash)
>
> and all further reads/writes are to file descriptors, e.g.:
>   write fd=4 size=131072
>
> Also sysdig reporting tools fail to find the name of file used in IO:
>
>   $ sysdig -r ${TMPFILE}.raw -c fdbytes_by fd.name
>   Bytes               fd.name
>   ------------------------------------------------
>   1024.00KB           /dev/pts/1
>
>   $ sysdig -r ${TMPFILE}.raw -c echo_fds
>   ------ Write 1024B to   /dev/pts/1 (dd)
>
> Fix the test by looking only for reads or writes tgo any descriptor.  It
> is clearly a limitation of sysdig so the test should not expect and test
> more than the tool can provide.
>
> This fixes the test failures like:
>
>   FAILED (trace at least 25 reads of /dev/zero by dd)
>   FAILED (trace at least 25 writes to /dev/null by dd)
>
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1844493
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com>
> ---
>  ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test/ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test.sh | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test/ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test.sh b/ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test/ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test.sh
> index b6df4564ef73..bfd6bdca2d29 100755
> --- a/ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test/ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test.sh
> +++ b/ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test/ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test.sh
> @@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ test_sysdig_context_switch()
>
>                 events=$(wc -l ${TMPFILE} | cut -d' ' -f1)
>                 switches=$(grep switch ${TMPFILE} | wc -l | cut -d' ' -f1)
> -               ddrdzero=$(grep read ${TMPFILE} | grep "/dev/zero" | wc -l | cut -d' ' -f1)
> -               ddwrnull=$(grep write ${TMPFILE} | grep "/dev/null" | wc -l | cut -d' ' -f1)
> +               ddrdzero=$(grep read ${TMPFILE} | wc -l | cut -d' ' -f1)
> +               ddwrnull=$(grep write ${TMPFILE} | wc -l | cut -d' ' -f1)
>
>                 if [ $switches -ge ${THRESHOLD} -a \
>                      $ddrdzero -ge ${THRESHOLD} -a \

Thanks for fixing the tests Krzysztof!
Acked-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli at canonical.com>



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