[Devel] [PATCH vz10 3/3] selftests: timers: measure the cpu timers on the clock they count

[Vasileios Almpanis]

> Commit b00385b8d081 ("selftests/posix_timers: Use CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID
> for ITIMER_PROF measurements") gave ITIMER_PROF the clock it counts,
> as measuring a cpu timer against the wall says nothing on a machine
> where the task does not have a cpu to itself. The other cpu timers
> are still measured against CLOCK_REALTIME and fail the same way.
> With four busy loops on the two cpus of a test machine:
> 
>   not ok 2 ITIMER_VIRTUAL
>   not ok 5 timer_create() per CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID
>   not ok 6 timer_create() per CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID
> 
> ITIMER_VIRTUAL counts the time the task spends in userspace, so take
> CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID for it as well; the loop it runs stays in
> userspace, so what that clock adds for system time is far inside the
> half a second the check allows. check_timer_create() arms its timer on
> the clock it is given, so measure on that one.
> 
> The test then passes whole on that machine, 19 of 19, busy or idle.
> 
> https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-143363
> Feature: fix selftests
> Signed-off-by: Eva Kurchatova <eva.kurchatova at virtuozzo.com>
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers.c b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers.c
> index 077a98fb1b1d..66993bd632ec 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers.c
> @@ -112,9 +112,10 @@ static void check_itimer(int which, const char *name)
>  
>  	done = 0;
>  
> -	if (which == ITIMER_VIRTUAL)
> +	if (which == ITIMER_VIRTUAL) {
> +		clock_id = CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID;
>  		signal(SIGVTALRM, sig_handler);
> -	else if (which == ITIMER_PROF) {
> +	} else if (which == ITIMER_PROF) {
>  		clock_id = CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID;
>  		signal(SIGPROF, sig_handler);
>  	}

ITIMER_REAL is measured with CLOCK_REALTIME but the kernel arms it with
CLOCK_MONOTONIC. 

hrtimer_setup(&sig->real_timer, it_real_fn, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL)
in kernel/fork.c

Set it for this arm too. Since realtime will also get
its own clock maybe it would read better to have a switch instead of an
if/else if/else if.

-- 
Vasileios Almpanis <vasileios.almpanis at virtuozzo.com>