selftests/resctrl: Only support measured read operation

The CMT, MBM, and MBA tests rely on a benchmark to generate
memory traffic. By default this is the "fill_buf" benchmark that
can be replaced via the "-b" command line argument.

The original intent of the "-b" command line parameter was
to replace the default "fill_buf" benchmark, but the implementation
also exposes an alternative use case where the "fill_buf" parameters
itself can be modified. One of the parameters to "fill_buf" is the
"operation" that can be either "read" or "write" and indicates
whether the "fill_buf" should use "read" or "write" operations on the
allocated buffer.

While replacing "fill_buf" default parameters is technically possible,
replacing the default "read" parameter with "write" is not supported
because the MBA and MBM tests only measure "read" operations. The
"read" operation is also most appropriate for the CMT test that aims
to use the benchmark to allocate into the cache.

Avoid any potential inconsistencies between test and measurement by
removing code for unsupported "write" operations to the buffer.
Ignore any attempt from user space to enable this unsupported test
configuration, instead always use read operations.

Keep the initialization of the, now unused, "fill_buf" parameters
to reserve these parameter positions since it has been exposed as an API.
Future parameter additions cannot use these parameter positions.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c
index e7878077883f..0f91c475b255 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c
@@ -265,13 +265,16 @@ last_arg:
 			ksft_exit_fail_msg("Out of memory!\n");
 		uparams.benchmark_cmd[1] = span_str;
 		uparams.benchmark_cmd[2] = "1";
-		uparams.benchmark_cmd[3] = "0";
 		/*
+		 * Third parameter was previously used for "operation"
+		 * (read/write) of which only (now default) "read"/"0"
+		 * works.
 		 * Fourth parameter was previously used to indicate
 		 * how long "fill_buf" should run for, with "false"
 		 * ("fill_buf" will keep running until terminated)
 		 * the only option that works.
 		 */
+		uparams.benchmark_cmd[3] = NULL;
 		uparams.benchmark_cmd[4] = NULL;
 	}