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[ Upstream commit 6d029c25b71f2de2838a6f093ce0fa0e69336154 ] check_timer_distribution() runs ten threads in a busy loop and tries to test that the kernel distributes a process posix CPU timer signal to every thread over time. There is not guarantee that this is true even after commitbcb7ee7902("posix-timers: Prefer delivery of signals to the current thread") because that commit only avoids waking up the sleeping process leader thread, but that has nothing to do with the actual signal delivery. As the signal is process wide the first thread which observes sigpending and wins the race to lock sighand will deliver the signal. Testing shows that this hangs on a regular base because some threads never win the race. The comment "This primarily tests that the kernel does not favour any one." is wrong. The kernel does favour a thread which hits the timer interrupt when CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID expires. Rewrite the test so it only checks that the group leader sleeping in join() never receives SIGALRM and the thread which burns CPU cycles receives all signals. In older kernels which do not have commitbcb7ee7902("posix-timers: Prefer delivery of signals to the current thread") the test-case fails immediately, the very 1st tick wakes the leader up. Otherwise it quickly succeeds after 100 ticks. CI testing wants to use newer selftest versions on stable kernels. In this case the test is guaranteed to fail. So check in the failure case whether the kernel version is less than v6.3 and skip the test result in that case. [ tglx: Massaged change log, renamed the version check helper ] Fixes:e797203fb3("selftests/timers/posix_timers: Test delivery of signals across threads") Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240409133802.GD29396@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.