Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2023-01-02

Re: [PATCH] perf test bpf: Skip test if kernel-debuginfo is not present

From: Athira Rajeev <hidden>
Date: 2022-12-13 09:52:33
Also in: linux-perf-users

On 13-Dec-2022, at 12:27 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [off-list ref] wrote:

Em Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 12:27:01PM +0530, Athira Rajeev escreveu:
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On 28-Oct-2022, at 9:12 PM, Kajol Jain [off-list ref] wrote:

Perf BPF filter test fails in environment where "kernel-debuginfo"
is not installed.

Test failure logs:
<<>>
42: BPF filter                            :
42.1: Basic BPF filtering                 : Ok
42.2: BPF pinning                         : Ok
42.3: BPF prologue generation             : FAILED!
<<>>

Enabling verbose option provided debug logs, which says debuginfo
needs to be installed. Snippet of verbose logs:

<<>>
42.3: BPF prologue generation                                       :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 28218
<<>>
Rebuild with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y, or install an appropriate debuginfo
package.
bpf_probe: failed to convert perf probe events
Failed to add events selected by BPF
test child finished with -1
---- end ----
BPF filter subtest 3: FAILED!
<<>>

Here subtest, "BPF prologue generation" failed and
logs shows debuginfo is needed. After installing
kernel-debuginfo package, testcase passes.

Subtest "BPF prologue generation" failed because, the "do_test"
function returns "TEST_FAIL" without checking the error type
returned by "parse_events_load_bpf_obj" function.
Function parse_events_load_bpf_obj can also return error of type
"-ENOENT" incase kernel-debuginfo package is not installed. Fix this
by adding check for -ENOENT error.

Test result after the patch changes:

Test failure logs:
<<>>
42: BPF filter                 :
42.1: Basic BPF filtering      : Ok
42.2: BPF pinning              : Ok
42.3: BPF prologue generation  : Skip (clang/debuginfo isn't
installed or environment missing BPF support)

Fixes: ba1fae431e74bb42 ("perf test: Add 'perf test BPF'")
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
---
tools/perf/tests/bpf.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/bpf.c b/tools/perf/tests/bpf.c
index 17c023823713..57cecadc1da2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/bpf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/bpf.c
@@ -126,6 +126,10 @@ static int do_test(struct bpf_object *obj, int (*func)(void),
	err = parse_events_load_bpf_obj(&parse_state, &parse_state.list, obj, NULL);
	parse_events_error__exit(&parse_error);
+	if (err == -ENOENT) {
+		pr_debug("Failed to add events selected by BPF, debuginfo package not installed\n");
+		return TEST_SKIP;
+	}
Hi Kajol,

Here, you have used ENOENT to skip the test. But there could be other places in the code path for “parse_events_load_bpf_obj”
which also returns ENOENT. In that case, for any exit that returns ENOENT, test will get skipped.

Can we look at the logs, example we have this in commit logs:

	Rebuild with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y, or install an appropriate debuginfo
	package.

so as to decide whether to skip for debug info ?
Kajol?

- Arnaldo
Hi Arnaldo, looking for your suggestion on how to handle the case where debuginfo is missing.

Here the bpf test fails because of missing debuginfo. The function which goes through the debuginfo check is "parse_events_load_bpf_obj" . parse_events_load_bpf_obj internally calls "open_debuginfo" which returns ENOENT when debuginfo is missing. The patch fix from Kajol is to skip the test using error code ENOENT for debuginfo.

But issue with using this return code is that, there are other places in the code path for "parse_events_load_bpf_obj"
which also returns ENOENT. In that case, for any exit path that returns ENOENT, test will get skipped.
Hence looking for an alternative way to identify missing debuginfo to skip the test. Please share your thoughts on this.

Thanks
Athira

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Thanks
Athira
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	if (err || list_empty(&parse_state.list)) {
		pr_debug("Failed to add events selected by BPF\n");
		return TEST_FAIL;
@@ -368,7 +372,7 @@ static struct test_case bpf_tests[] = {
			"clang isn't installed or environment missing BPF support"),
#ifdef HAVE_BPF_PROLOGUE
	TEST_CASE_REASON("BPF prologue generation", bpf_prologue_test,
-			"clang isn't installed or environment missing BPF support"),
+			"clang/debuginfo isn't installed or environment missing BPF support"),
#else
	TEST_CASE_REASON("BPF prologue generation", bpf_prologue_test, "not compiled in"),
#endif
-- 
2.31.1
  
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