perf tests: Spawn child for each test
In upcoming tests we will setup process limits, which
might affect other tests. Spawning child for each test
to prevent this.
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-11-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c b/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
index 802e3cd..9677a5c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
*
* Builtin regression testing command: ever growing number of sanity tests
*/
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
#include "builtin.h"
#include "intlist.h"
#include "tests.h"
@@ -172,6 +174,34 @@
return false;
}
+static int run_test(struct test *test)
+{
+ int status, err = -1, child = fork();
+
+ if (child < 0) {
+ pr_err("failed to fork test: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ if (!child) {
+ pr_debug("test child forked, pid %d\n", getpid());
+ err = test->func();
+ exit(err);
+ }
+
+ wait(&status);
+
+ if (WIFEXITED(status)) {
+ err = WEXITSTATUS(status);
+ pr_debug("test child finished with %d\n", err);
+ } else if (WIFSIGNALED(status)) {
+ err = -1;
+ pr_debug("test child interrupted\n");
+ }
+
+ return err;
+}
+
static int __cmd_test(int argc, const char *argv[], struct intlist *skiplist)
{
int i = 0;
@@ -200,7 +230,7 @@
}
pr_debug("\n--- start ---\n");
- err = tests[curr].func();
+ err = run_test(&tests[curr]);
pr_debug("---- end ----\n%s:", tests[curr].desc);
switch (err) {