linux/tools
Adrian Hunter ee32ee73cc perf test waiting.sh: Replace timestamp polling with sleep
The waiting helpers implement timeouts using:

  date +%s%1N

This relies on GNU coreutils date truncating %N to the specified width,
so %1N yields tenths of a second.

Rust coreutils (uutils) interprets the width differently and does not
truncate the nanoseconds field.  Consequently "date +%1N" returns all
nine nanosecond digits, causing the elapsed-time calculation to be done
in nanoseconds while timeout values remain in tenths of a second.

As a result, timeout comparisons succeed immediately and the waiting
helpers time out on their first iteration.  This causes
test_intel_pt.sh to fail on systems using uutils "date".

Avoid implementation-specific date formatting entirely.  Instead, wait
for 100 ms on each iteration and count the timeout down.  Besides fixing
the portability issue, this removes the busy-waiting behaviour in
wait_for_perf_to_start(), which could otherwise consume CPU while
waiting for perf record to start.

Since the timeout is now based on repeated sleeps, it is only
approximate.  Update the comments accordingly.  Also make is_running()
wait for exactly the documented number of tenths by changing its timeout
test from -gt to the new logic, and quote tm_out in the modified code.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-09-08 18:06:01 -03:00
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arch - Remove the smp_locks alternatives machinery which was used to patch out lock 2026-08-18 18:11:25 -07:00
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perf perf test waiting.sh: Replace timestamp polling with sleep 2026-09-08 18:06:01 -03:00
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virtio tools/virtio: Fix control typo in trace agent comment 2026-08-19 06:38:48 -04:00
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workqueue tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py: Support backward compatibility for wq->attrs rename 2026-08-31 10:17:08 -10:00
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