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Ilpo Järvinen 6c8cb747d0 selftests/resctrl: Restore the CPU affinity after CAT test
CAT test does not reset the CPU affinity after the benchmark.
This is relatively harmless as is because CAT test is the last
benchmark to run, however, more tests may be added later.

Store the CPU affinity the first time taskset_benchmark() is run and
add taskset_restore() which the test can call to reset the CPU mask to
its original value.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-02-13 13:56:45 -07:00
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resctrl_tests - resctrl file system test suit

Authors:
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
	Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>,

resctrl_tests tests various resctrl functionalities and interfaces including
both software and hardware.

Currently it supports Memory Bandwidth Monitoring test and Memory Bandwidth
Allocation test on Intel RDT hardware. More tests will be added in the future.
And the test suit can be extended to cover AMD QoS and ARM MPAM hardware
as well.

resctrl_tests can be run with or without kselftest framework.

WITH KSELFTEST FRAMEWORK
=======================

BUILD
-----

Build executable file "resctrl_tests" from top level directory of the kernel source:
 $ make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=resctrl

RUN
---

Run resctrl_tests as sudo or root since the test needs to mount resctrl file
system and change contents in the file system.
Using kselftest framework will run all supported tests within resctrl_tests:

 $ sudo make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=resctrl run_tests

More details about kselftest framework can be found in
Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst.

WITHOUT KSELFTEST FRAMEWORK
===========================

BUILD
-----

Build executable file "resctrl_tests" from this directory(tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/):
  $ make

RUN
---

Run resctrl_tests as sudo or root since the test needs to mount resctrl file
system and change contents in the file system.
Executing the test without any parameter will run all supported tests:

 $ sudo ./resctrl_tests

OVERVIEW OF EXECUTION
=====================

A test case has four stages:

  - setup: mount resctrl file system, create group, setup schemata, move test
    process pids to tasks, start benchmark.
  - execute: let benchmark run
  - verify: get resctrl data and verify the data with another source, e.g.
    perf event.
  - teardown: umount resctrl and clear temporary files.

ARGUMENTS
=========

Parameter '-h' shows usage information.

usage: resctrl_tests [-h] [-b "benchmark_cmd [options]"] [-t test list] [-n no_of_bits]
        -b benchmark_cmd [options]: run specified benchmark for MBM, MBA and CMT default benchmark is builtin fill_buf
        -t test list: run tests specified in the test list, e.g. -t mbm,mba,cmt,cat
        -n no_of_bits: run cache tests using specified no of bits in cache bit mask
        -p cpu_no: specify CPU number to run the test. 1 is default
        -h: help