selftests/bpf: Fix test_progs send_signal flakiness with nmi mode
Alexei observed that test_progs send_signal may fail if run with command line "./test_progs" and the tests will pass if just run "./test_progs -n 40". I observed similar issue with nmi subtest failure and added a delay 100 us in Commit ab8b7f0c ("tools/bpf: Add self tests for bpf_send_signal_thread()") and the problem is gone for me. But the issue still exists in Alexei's testing environment. The current code uses sample_freq = 50 (50 events/second), which may not be enough. But if the sample_freq value is larger than sysctl kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate, the perf_event_open syscall will fail. This patch changed nmi perf testing to use sample_period = 1, which means trying to sampling every event. This seems fixing the issue. Fixes: ab8b7f0c ("tools/bpf: Add self tests for bpf_send_signal_thread()") Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200116174004.1522812-1-yhs@fb.com
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