From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E5CA0547; Fri, 9 Apr 2021 17:33:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060291410A9; Fri, 9 Apr 2021 17:33:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from wout3-smtp.messagingengine.com (wout3-smtp.messagingengine.com [64.147.123.19]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5041410A8 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2021 17:33:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.west.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id E50DBE46; Fri, 9 Apr 2021 11:33:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:33:51 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; s=fm3; bh= aeTdOt5d3G5oG+LZ4MR74OIRAnzeImaRFSsDDTuK8tg=; b=u873p018zxnm92l6 nYfrsGLwZOX+0rGUj4vP225IM4VPP6xX2+j/4rqgql4e8p7+4l/kR/M473ejQlB3 f2oiNkhwb7HRiPR+QrOts2a2h3fAe6DCWcCdhN9g9jOD3IAs4WdU9y7G9xE4hoZ9 lsJ4YkYoo2Sq73hjny99GvnGu36kADAVq9+ygQ0TKohVbkgwmBrBZw47/p2klkUM smT3H/i2RJ8FdiPZjM/nkHmKwVbbHa4gNJrWExU3C5Wk5USTbC1ui5ysziILwMj3 ynVCvhRFxU8lYJ7wsKHYbKgJ2oYg6EWlZP7sQnFGW76nLmjazdODyIGmlpxySah7 28g9SA== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender :x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=aeTdOt5d3G5oG+LZ4MR74OIRAnzeImaRFSsDDTuK8 tg=; b=MT1/hsNU65Fg3s8CMT7x6GQHsnCQsHMUChT4um27lrnULHAXUVE/IBfF6 Wjrz55KmYROm43L+noXQE3jy8CHNSgeFpOkw2gIaGk3i4szhNbav6tfst7FxPGbX hOpj9zj0FPjimOBmiqYTAuxWC2TmkD2Zogr10upTWt4U/kSaGVf3jX7BCzleq+Zc QmHVnzcTW+S+N6bz/w92xVbttq8ZGtgA3+2Ni9PwxAkEVX6Lbam/X6f4Rr5EvucU x3K4FYGkkwkwN2UHHAa/N2GrDoPr3JQnMUF7BAHSYryu/rn1Rl71YznUdeZn3cLh xba7v9Cl/ptxgPX8y5GT+kR8V/oaQ== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduledrudekuddgleduucetufdoteggodetrfdotf fvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuhfgrshhtofgrihhlpdfqfgfvpdfurfetoffkrfgpnffqhgen uceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucesvcftvggtihhpihgvnhhtshculddquddttddmne cujfgurhephffvufffkfgjfhgggfgtsehtufertddttddvnecuhfhrohhmpefvhhhomhgr shcuofhonhhjrghlohhnuceothhhohhmrghssehmohhnjhgrlhhonhdrnhgvtheqnecugg ftrfgrthhtvghrnhepudeggfdvfeduffdtfeeglefghfeukefgfffhueejtdetuedtjeeu ieeivdffgeehnecukfhppeejjedrudefgedrvddtfedrudekgeenucevlhhushhtvghruf hiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhepmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpehthhhomhgrshesmhhonhhjrghl ohhnrdhnvght X-ME-Proxy: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2FE6724005A; Fri, 9 Apr 2021 11:33:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Aaron Conole Cc: Bruce Richardson , dev@dpdk.org, David Marchand , anatoly.burakov@intel.com Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:33:47 +0200 Message-ID: <5237468.PbloVLfHjj@thomas> In-Reply-To: References: <20210317144409.288346-1-aconole@redhat.com> <20210406145041.GC551@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] test: make hugepage check more robust under Linux X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 09/04/2021 17:06, Aaron Conole: > Bruce Richardson writes: > > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:20:37AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote: > >> Bruce Richardson writes: > >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 08:33:07AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote: > >> >> Thomas Monjalon writes: > >> >> > >> >> > 17/03/2021 15:44, Aaron Conole: > >> >> >> The hugepage test really needs to check multiple things on Linux: > >> >> >> > >> >> >> 1. Are hugepages reserved in the system? > >> >> >> > >> >> >> 2. Is the hugepage mountpoint available so that we can allocate them? > >> >> >> > >> >> >> 3. Do we have permissions to write into the hugepage mountpoint? > >> >> >> > >> >> >> The existing hugepage check only verifies the first. On some setups, > >> >> >> a non-root user won't have access to the mountpoint for hugepages to > >> >> >> be allocated and that needs to be reflected in the test as well. Add > >> >> >> such checks for Linux OS to give a more check when running test suites. > >> >> > > >> >> > Requirements 2 & 3 are optional. > >> >> > You don't need a mount point if using the option --in-memory. > >> >> > >> >> That's true, but it seems to break a few of the unit tests without. > >> >> I'll clarify the commit message. > >> >> > >> >> Additionally, I thought it would be simple to just incorporate your > >> >> suggestions - but it seems that meson / ninja doesn't have cascading > >> >> dependencies the way 'make' does (or, I haven't figured out from the > >> >> syntax how to do that) - a 'run_command' gets resolved at configure > >> >> time and it doesn't seem that we can make a run_target depend on another > >> >> run_target since dependencies are on file outputs. Maybe we do some > >> >> kind of trickery here where we write a file that the build script reads? > >> >> > >> >> I am trying to figure out how best to accomplish this - suggestions > >> >> welcome. > >> >> > >> > Sorry that I'm late to this thread. Can you perhaps explain what you mean > >> > by cascading dependencies in this instance, or what you are trying to do > >> > exactly that is not supported? > >> > >> I want to conditionally invoke the test suite with the hugepage tests, > >> and support the case that the machine has hugepages enabled, but not > >> accessible. > >> > >> Right now, if a user runs: > >> > >> meson build && ninja -C build test > >> > >> with hugepages allocated as a non-root user, they will see 'FAIL' > >> messages. This isn't very friendly, since the user would be confused. > >> > >> Right now, hugepage detection is done only at configure time (the > >> 'meson' step), and then the target is always run. > >> > >> For now, I will continue modifying the below script, but that will be a > >> detection at configure time, still. So the case where the user runs > >> 'meson' when they have hugepages, but those hugepages go away and then > >> they run 'ninja -C build test' will still be FAIL instead of SKIP (maybe > >> we need a more descriptive error when FAIL due to hugepages happen?) > >> > > > > This seems to me like the test binary itself should be checking the > > presence of hugepages, and reporting skips if necessary. It's not just when > > run through ninja that this functionality would be useful. > > Either way, there needs to be a rework - if we do it in the test binary, > then the tests that require hugepages need to be worked so that they > correctly detect lack of hugepage support before starting. If we keep > that knowledge in the meson system, then we need to change the way we > call the test binary script to support a more robust detection. > > I guess, I don't care too much which one is the one we choose. My $.02 > opinion is that we already have most of the logic and whatnot done in > the build system, so I'd prefer to do as small a change as possible > (leaving that logic in the meson system). Then again, maybe it makes > more sense to just rip the bandaid off and move it all into the test > framework. > > WDYT? I think the test application should adapt to its environment. If no hugepage, then mark the tests requiring hugepages as skipped. For the other tests, we could use --in-memory.