From a95ecac5cb2fc8a8ee606991384d33ee121df00c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Naveen N. Rao" Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:34:56 +0530 Subject: selftests/powerpc: Relax L1d miss targets for rfi_flush test When running the rfi_flush test, if the system is loaded, we see two issues: 1. The L1d misses when rfi_flush is disabled increase significantly due to other workloads interfering with the cache. 2. The L1d misses when rfi_flush is enabled sometimes goes slightly below the expected number of misses. To address these, let's relax the expected number of L1d misses: 1. When rfi_flush is disabled, we allow upto half the expected number of the misses for when rfi_flush is enabled. 2. When rfi_flush is enabled, we allow ~1% lower number of cache misses. Reported-by: Joel Stanley Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao Tested-by: Joel Stanley Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman --- tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/rfi_flush.c | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security') diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/rfi_flush.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/rfi_flush.c index 564ed45bbf73..0a7d0afb26b8 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/rfi_flush.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/rfi_flush.c @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ int rfi_flush_test(void) struct perf_event_read v; __u64 l1d_misses_total = 0; unsigned long iterations = 100000, zero_size = 24 * 1024; + unsigned long l1d_misses_expected; int rfi_flush_org, rfi_flush; SKIP_IF(geteuid() != 0); @@ -71,6 +72,12 @@ int rfi_flush_test(void) iter = repetitions; + /* + * We expect to see l1d miss for each cacheline access when rfi_flush + * is set. Allow a small variation on this. + */ + l1d_misses_expected = iterations * (zero_size / CACHELINE_SIZE - 2); + again: FAIL_IF(perf_event_reset(fd)); @@ -78,10 +85,9 @@ again: FAIL_IF(read(fd, &v, sizeof(v)) != sizeof(v)); - /* Expect at least zero_size/CACHELINE_SIZE misses per iteration */ - if (v.l1d_misses >= (iterations * zero_size / CACHELINE_SIZE) && rfi_flush) + if (rfi_flush && v.l1d_misses >= l1d_misses_expected) passes++; - else if (v.l1d_misses < iterations && !rfi_flush) + else if (!rfi_flush && v.l1d_misses < (l1d_misses_expected / 2)) passes++; l1d_misses_total += v.l1d_misses; @@ -92,13 +98,15 @@ again: if (passes < repetitions) { printf("FAIL (L1D misses with rfi_flush=%d: %llu %c %lu) [%d/%d failures]\n", rfi_flush, l1d_misses_total, rfi_flush ? '<' : '>', - rfi_flush ? (repetitions * iterations * zero_size / CACHELINE_SIZE) : iterations, + rfi_flush ? repetitions * l1d_misses_expected : + repetitions * l1d_misses_expected / 2, repetitions - passes, repetitions); rc = 1; } else printf("PASS (L1D misses with rfi_flush=%d: %llu %c %lu) [%d/%d pass]\n", rfi_flush, l1d_misses_total, rfi_flush ? '>' : '<', - rfi_flush ? (repetitions * iterations * zero_size / CACHELINE_SIZE) : iterations, + rfi_flush ? repetitions * l1d_misses_expected : + repetitions * l1d_misses_expected / 2, passes, repetitions); if (rfi_flush == rfi_flush_org) { -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b