Added support for lockstorm benchmark to dump data in special file.

cpu/lockstorm_benchmark.py

@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
 from avocado.utils.software_manager.manager import SoftwareManager
 
 
+def clear_dmesg():
+    process.run("dmesg -C ", sudo=True)
+
+
 class lockstorm_benchmark(Test):
     def setUp(self):
         """
@@ -61,10 +65,11 @@ def capture_dmesg_dump(self, smt_state):
         :param smt_state: Here we are passing the smt state that we are
         going to change.
         """
-        cmd = "dmesg | tail -n 1"
+        cmd = "dmesg | grep 'lockstorm: spinlock iterations'"
         self.log.info(f"=================Dump data for \
                 SMT Mode: {smt_state} benchmark======================\n\n")
         dump_data = process.run(cmd, shell=True)
+        return dump_data
 
     def test(self):
         """
@@ -74,6 +79,8 @@ def test(self):
         2.Running the lockstorm benchmark.
         3. Capturing the benchmark stats.
         """
+        lockstorm_dir = self.logdir + "/lockstorm_benc"
+        os.makedirs(lockstorm_dir, exist_ok=True)
         process.run('ppc64_cpu --cores-on=all', shell=True)
         process.run('ppc64_cpu --smt=on', shell=True)
         cpu_controller = ["2", "4", "6", "on", "off"]
@@ -85,12 +92,26 @@ def test(self):
                 process.run(cmd, shell=True)
                 cmd = "insmod ./lockstorm.ko" + " cpulist=%s" % \
                     (self.cpu_list)
-
+                clear_dmesg()
                 if self.cpu_list == 0:
                     cmd = "insmod ./lockstorm.ko"
                 process.system(cmd,
                                ignore_status=True, shell=False, sudo=True)
-                self.capture_dmesg_dump(smt_mode)
+                lockstorm_data = self.capture_dmesg_dump(smt_mode)
+                stdout_output = lockstorm_data.stdout
+                lockstorm_log = lockstorm_dir + "/lockstorm.log"
+                with open(lockstorm_log, "a") as payload:
+                    payload.write(
+                        "==================Iteration {}=============\
+                                    \n".format(str(test_run)))
+                    payload.write("============SMT mode: {}============= \
+                            \n".format(smt_mode))
+                    lines = stdout_output.splitlines()
+                    for line in lines:
+                        decoded_string = line.decode('utf-8')
+                        cleaned_string = decoded_string.lstrip('\t')
+                        payload.write(cleaned_string + '\n')
+                    payload.write("\n")
 
     def tearDown(self):
         """