APPLIED: [J][SRU][PATCH 0/1] selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default

[Stefan Bader]

On 24.11.23 10:16, Po-Hsu Lin wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2029405
> 
> [Impact]
> On ARM64 systems, tests like subsystem-enable.tc, event-enable.tc,
> event-pid.tc in linux/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace will take too
> much time to run and consequently leads to test timeout.
> 
> The culprit is the `cat` command on the changing trace file.
> 
> [Fix]
> * 25b9513872 selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace
>    file by default
> 
> This patch can be cherry-picked into Jammy. I didn't see this issue in
> our 5.4 kernels. And it's already landed in newer kernels.
> 
> [Test]
> On an ARM64 testing node, apply this patch to the kernel tree and run
> event-pid.tc test in linux/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace with:
> 
>    sudo ./ftracetest -vvv test.d/event/event-pid.tc
> 
> The test should finish within a few minutes.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> Change limited to testing tools, it should not have any actual impact
> to kernel functions.
> 
> 
> Masami Hiramatsu (1):
>    selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default
> 
>   tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest       |  2 +-
>   tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/functions | 12 ++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Applied to jammy:linux/master-next. Thanks.

-Stefan

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