On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:23:52 -0400
Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 01:40:30 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Add a testcase for max stack tracer, which checks basic
> > max stack usage tracing and its filter feature.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  .../ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_stack_tracer.tc      |   39 
> > ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 
> > tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_stack_tracer.tc
> > 
> > diff --git 
> > a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_stack_tracer.tc 
> > b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_stack_tracer.tc
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..b414f0e3c646
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_stack_tracer.tc
> > @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
> > +#!/bin/sh
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +# description: ftrace - Max stack tracer
> > +# Test the basic function of max-stack usage tracing
> > +
> > +if [ ! -f stack_trace ]; then
> > +  echo "Max stack tracer is not supported - please make 
> > CONFIG_STACK_TRACER=y"
> > +  exit_unsupported
> > +fi
> > +
> > +echo > stack_trace_filter
> > +echo 0 > stack_max_size
> > +echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled
> > +
> > +: "Fork and wait for the first entry become !lock"
> > +timeout=10
> > +while [ $timeout -ne 0 ]; do
> > +  ( echo "forked" )
> > +  FL=`grep " 0)" stack_trace`
> > +  echo $FL | grep -q "lock" || break;
> > +  timeout=$((timeout - 1))
> > +done
> > +echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled
> > +
> > +echo '*lock*' > stack_trace_filter
> > +test `cat stack_trace_filter | wc -l` -eq `grep lock stack_trace_filter | 
> > wc -l`
> > +
> > +echo 0 > stack_max_size
> > +echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled
> 
> This test fails quite a bit because it doesn't guarantee that another
> stack trace gets in that is bigger, and we don't find the "lock".

Hmm, maybe I misunderstand what is the stack_trace_filter.
I thought it filtered the function that triggered stack trace,
so the top of stack trace was always filtered function.
If not, what does this filter?

Thank you,

> 
> -- Steve
> 
> > +
> > +: "Fork and always the first entry including lock"
> > +timeout=10
> > +while [ $timeout -ne 0 ]; do
> > +  ( echo "forked" )
> > +  FL=`grep " 0)" stack_trace`
> > +  echo $FL | grep -q "lock"
> > +  timeout=$((timeout - 1))
> > +done
> > +echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled
> 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>

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