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Daniel Leung 36cdd87bcf tests: timer_behavior: use fabs() instead of abs()
abs() takes integer as argument but time_diff_us is of double.
So use fabs() instead.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Leung <daniel.leung@intel.com>
2026-04-20 17:54:58 +08:00
Daniel Leung df2de31b7e tests: timer_behavior: change sqrtf() to sqrt()
sqrtf() is used for floats but the argument and resulting
variable are both doubles. LLVM would complain about
implicit conversion from float to double. So use sqrt()
instead as it is used with doubles.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Leung <daniel.leung@intel.com>
2026-04-20 17:54:57 +08:00
Anas Nashif a1515b226f tests: kernel: add missing test call argument
Add missing param argument.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2026-04-20 17:38:10 +08:00
Dmitrii Golovanov 3ce2774c80 tests: timer: behavior: fix MAX_STD_DEV recording
Fix misaligned name change for `MAX_STD_DEV` value.

Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Golovanov <dmitrii.golovanov@intel.com>
2026-04-20 17:34:39 +08:00
Krzysztof Chruściński 89ce2f3715 tests: kernel: timer: timer_behavior: Tweak expected std deviation
If frequency of the system clock is lower then deviation may exceed
default value (10us). Instead of adjusting the default value, test is
rounding up expected standard deviation to a single clock cycle.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Chruściński <krzysztof.chruscinski@nordicsemi.no>
2026-04-20 17:30:21 +08:00
Dmitrii Golovanov b4e0ae1595 tests: kernel: timer_behavior: Additional stats recording
Additional logging of kernel.timer.timer test case statistics for
timer drift, variance, etc. as JSON-formatted records to make easier
data collection and its further analysis.
These log records will be processed by the Twister Harness recording
feature which captures and parses timer statistics from the log output,
then composes it into twister.json and recording.csv files.

Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Golovanov <dmitrii.golovanov@intel.com>
2026-04-20 17:26:09 +08:00
Anas Nashif 5f4a1e02a8 ztest: fix ztest_run_test_suite usage and macros
Fix usage of ztest_run_test_suite that was missed when introducing shell
support.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
2026-04-20 16:56:33 +08:00
Andrzej Głąbek c3495997fd tests: kernel: timer: jitter_drift: Restore initial alignment to tick
This is a follow-up to commit 4cc21e2f4a.

That short sleeping before starting the test was removed together with
accuracy improvements (specifically, with moving of the first readout
of the cycle counter). Nevertheless, this tick alignment it still
needed, as without it in specific conditions the test may undesirably
fail.

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Głąbek <andrzej.glabek@nordicsemi.no>
2026-04-20 16:41:44 +08:00
Ederson de Souza d155882e6a tests/kernel/timer/timer_behavior: Add support for external tool
This patch adds a way to simplify using an external tool to measure
timer behaviour on Zephyr. It modifies the timer behaviour
jitter_drift.c tests to toggle a GPIO pin (defined via a new DTS
compatible, "test-kernel-timer-behavior-external") that can be connected
to an external tool, such as a logic analyzer, to measure timer
behaviour.

This GPIO pin toggle is behind a new CONFIG_TIMER_EXTERNAL_TEST Kconfig.

A new pytest test is added so that it can collect the statistics from
the external tool and assert some measurements. To collect statistics
from the external tool, one needs to provide a Python module which
provides a `run(seconds, config)` method, that will perform the test and
return the statistics. Check the README file for more information about
this interface.

Finally, this on twister, this new test is behind a new fixture,
"gpio-timerout".

Signed-off-by: Ederson de Souza <ederson.desouza@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Burdick <thomas.burdick@intel.com>
2026-04-20 16:41:11 +08:00
Nicolas Pitre 9fbdf8f039 tests: timer_behavior: better cope with timer wrap-arounds
Commit a1d21ca69b ("tests: timer_behavior: don't fail the test with
timer wrap-arounds") simply ignored the total time validation whenever
any rollover was detected. Let's adjust the end timestamp according
to the number of rollovers instead.

Documentation for sys_clock_cycle_get_32() says it should count up
monotonically through the full 32 bit space, wrapping at 0xffffffff.
Therefore we just need to add 2^32 times the number of rollovers to
the end timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
2026-04-20 16:31:08 +08:00
Nicolas Pitre b23743c6b9 tests: timer_behavior: don't fail the test with timer wrap-arounds
If the timer driver only implements sys_clock_cycle_get_32() (meaning
CONFIG_TIMER_HAS_64BIT_CYCLE_COUNTER=n) and the hardware clock is high
enough then the reported cycle count may wrap an uint32_t during the
test. This makes validating the total test duration pointless as it
cannot be measured. Just print a warning instead of failing the test
in that case.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
2026-04-20 16:20:36 +08:00
Nicolas Pitre e31f7861be tests: timer_behavior: jitter test using timer start delay and period
Exercize both the timer start delay as wellas the timer period and
gather stats for each.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
2026-04-20 16:20:36 +08:00
Nicolas Pitre 004e079d77 tests: timer_behavior: accuracy improvements
Don't sample the first entry outside the timer as this is a different
code path which produces a different offset from the clock tick.

Use sys_clock_hw_cycles_per_sec() to be compatible with systems that
read their hardware clock frequency at run time.

Perform cycle difference computations with uint64_t. If ever the
magnitude of the absolute clock cycle values is greater than 52 bits
then the cast to a double will actually lose accuracy.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
2026-04-20 16:14:33 +08:00
Nicolas Pitre 651eb0809f tests: timer_behavior: fix a period drift logic error
An assertion statement was a bit too strict. Period drift may come about
not only from kernel ticks being large but also from time conversion being
inexact due to division truncation.

Fixes: #55136

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
2026-04-20 16:14:03 +08:00
Nicolas Pitre f91d0ae6d6 tests: kernel: timer_behavior: improve the timer_jitter_drift output
Provide an estimate of the test duration.
Make the output nicer than a few overloaded and wrapped lines.
Provide more context in the presence of period time drift.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
2026-04-20 16:12:47 +08:00
Nicolas Pitre 7104fbbc9f tests: kernel: timer_behavior: improve timer_tick_train output
Print the "perfect" reference period for easier evaluation.
Suggest a remedy to the missed ticks problem.

Still, that wasn't satisfactory. Implemented a count of missed ticks
to get to the bottom of this issue. Found that missed ticks always came
to a perfect count of 40.

Incidentally, the busy loop prints a line every 250 ms and the test spans
10 seconds. There are no such coincidences.

Turns out that CONFIG_PRINTK_SYNC was set by default. This disables IRQs
for the serial output duration, which can be quite long at 115200 bauds.
Given a 60-ish character line length, this represents more than 5 ms of
no IRQ servicing during a timer latency measurement test which is bad.
So make sure CONFIG_PRINTK_SYNC=n for proper statistics.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
2026-04-20 16:12:47 +08:00
Andrzej Głąbek 68d3170fe8 tests: kernel: timer_behavior: Relax a bit the timer_tick_train test
The requirement of being able to spend only 10% of processing time
on execution of timer handlers that are scheduled on every tick is
not really possible to fulfill on platforms like the nRF ones where
the tick period is quite short (~30 us in this case). Relax this
requirement and accept if at least one-third of the processing time
is available for other work while handling the timer tick train.

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Głąbek <andrzej.glabek@nordicsemi.no>
2026-04-20 16:05:43 +08:00
Tom Burdick 4a75cc234d tests: Tick rate testing with timer train
Test timers with a train of one tick timers to test that
a configured SYS_CLOCK_TICKS_PER_SEC is sensible. If the TICKS_PER_SEC
is too high the timer train will take longer than expected to reach
the station. Worse, if the timer driver has too short of a minimum
delay for its processing power and the tick rate is too high its
possible the device will get caught in an interrupt loop
preventing any threads from running while processing timers.

This test validates that the tick rate configured is actually able to be
processed without delays while also having work done in threads ensuring
that no thread scheduling delays occur either from delayed timers or an
interrupt loop from preventing threads from running.

Signed-off-by: Tom Burdick <thomas.burdick@intel.com>
2026-04-20 16:02:52 +08:00
Tom Burdick ecbdf1cc5e tests: Timer behavior custom test_main
Adds a custom test_main and renames the test suite for jitter_drift.

Runs the jitter_drift test suite.

The order of these tests matter on hardware as the counter is often
reset on loading the test program. This is useful as its far less likely
to encounter a clock counter rollover. On arm this is especially useful.

Signed-off-by: Tom Burdick <thomas.burdick@intel.com>
2026-04-20 16:02:52 +08:00
Tom Burdick 9985e75af4 tests: Rename timer behavior main.c
Move the main.c timer behavior test code to jitter_drift.c
so that other tests may be added to the suite.

Signed-off-by: Tom Burdick <thomas.burdick@intel.com>
2026-04-20 16:02:52 +08:00
Enjia Mai a6d6973f26 tests: timer: timer_behavior: add a tick align
Add a tick align to reduce errors of calculating the
spending cycles.

Signed-off-by: Enjia Mai <enjia.mai@intel.com>
2026-04-20 16:02:45 +08:00
Chen Peng1 713aab94b7 test: timer: behavior: Enhancement for running this test
Zephyr timer is based on system ticks, there usually exists some time drift
due to round up/down errors between cycles, ticks and time delay, we
need to add those expected time drift into the bound calculation for
running this test.
Add a new config TIMER_TEST_PERIOD_MAX_DRIFT_PERCENT for users to set
expected maximum drift percentage for the timer period.

Signed-off-by: Chen Peng1 <peng1.chen@intel.com>
2026-04-20 16:01:05 +08:00
Gerard Marull-Paretas 3c6c6ff190 includes: prefer <zephyr/kernel.h> over <zephyr/zephyr.h>
As of today <zephyr/zephyr.h> is 100% equivalent to <zephyr/kernel.h>.
This patch proposes to then include <zephyr/kernel.h> instead of
<zephyr/zephyr.h> since it is more clear that you are including the
Kernel APIs and (probably) nothing else. <zephyr/zephyr.h> sounds like a
catch-all header that may be confusing. Most applications need to
include a bunch of other things to compile, e.g. driver headers or
subsystem headers like BT, logging, etc.

The idea of a catch-all header in Zephyr is probably not feasible
anyway. Reason is that Zephyr is not a library, like it could be for
example `libpython`. Zephyr provides many utilities nowadays: a kernel,
drivers, subsystems, etc and things will likely grow. A catch-all header
would be massive, difficult to keep up-to-date. It is also likely that
an application will only build a small subset. Note that subsystem-level
headers may use a catch-all approach to make things easier, though.

NOTE: This patch is **NOT** removing the header, just removing its usage
in-tree. I'd advocate for its deprecation (add a #warning on it), but I
understand many people will have concerns.

Signed-off-by: Gerard Marull-Paretas <gerard.marull@nordicsemi.no>
2026-04-20 15:59:21 +08:00
Kumar Gala 91980f3c90 tests: timer: timer_behavior: Fix compile issues
Includes need to be <zephyr/tc_util.h> and <zephyr/ztest.h> otherwise
we get build errors.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.org>
2026-04-20 15:57:56 +08:00
Tom Burdick 44abf58c80 kernel: Timer behavioral testing
Test and validate the behavior of a timer driver.

Takes a number of absolute timer cycle samples of a periodic timer then
calculates statistical mean, variance, stddev along with total drift over
the entire test time. Ensures standard deviation and drift are within
a given configurable bound.

Signed-off-by: Tom Burdick <thomas.burdick@intel.com>
2026-04-20 15:57:55 +08:00