linux/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/README
Xiaochen Shen 1421ec684a selftests/resctrl: Fix incorrect parsing of option "-t"
Resctrl test suite accepts command line argument "-t" to specify the
unit tests to run in the test list (e.g., -t mbm,mba,cmt,cat) as
documented in the help.

When calling strtok() to parse the option, the incorrect delimiters
argument ":\t" is used. As a result, passing "-t mbm,mba,cmt,cat" throws
an invalid option error.

Fix this by using delimiters argument "," instead of ":\t" for parsing
of unit tests list. At the same time, remove the unnecessary "spaces"
between the unit tests in help documentation to prevent confusion.

Fixes: 790bf585b0 ("selftests/resctrl: Add Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) selftest")
Fixes: 78941183d1 ("selftests/resctrl: Add Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) selftest")
Fixes: ecdbb911f2 ("selftests/resctrl: Add MBM test")
Fixes: 034c7678dd ("selftests/resctrl: Add README for resctrl tests")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-06-07 18:38:58 -06:00

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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.
BUILD
-----
Run "make" to build executable file "resctrl_tests".
RUN
---
To use resctrl_tests, root or sudoer privileges are required. This is because
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