Re: [PATCH v2] perf test: Skip Sigtrap test for arm+aarch64

[Leo Yan]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 05:33:33PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> Skip the Sigtrap test for arm + arm64, same as was done for s390 in
> commit a840974e96fd ("perf test: Test 73 Sig_trap fails on s390"). For
> this, reuse BP_SIGNAL_IS_SUPPORTED - meaning that the arch can use BP to
> generate signals - instead of BP_ACCOUNT_IS_SUPPORTED, which is
> appropriate.
> 
> As described by Will at [0], in the test we get stuck in a loop of handling
> the HW breakpoint exception and never making progress. GDB handles this
> by stepping over the faulting instruction, but with perf the kernel is
> expected to handle the step (which it doesn't for arm).
> 
> Dmitry made an attempt to get this work, also mentioned in the same thread
> as [0], which was appreciated. But the best thing to do is skip the test
> for now.
> 
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20220118124343.GC98966@leoy-ThinkPad-X240s/T/#m13b06c39d2a5100d340f009435df6f4d8ee57b5a
> 
> Fixes: Fixes: 5504f67944484 ("perf test sigtrap: Add basic stress test for sigtrap handling")
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>

I tested this patch on my Juno board:

root@Juno:# ./perf test 73
 73: Sigtrap                                                         : Skip

Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>