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authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2014-07-23 17:31:35 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2014-07-28 14:11:30 +1000
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selftests/powerpc: Count instructions under scheduler pressure
Have a task eat some cpu while we are counting instructions to create some scheduler pressure. The idea being to try and unearth any bugs we have in counting that only appear when context switching is happening. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/count_instructions.c8
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/Makefile
index ebc0e7449cd9..8595cfd7e41b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ noarg:
$(MAKE) -C ../
PROGS := count_instructions l3_bank_test
-EXTRA_SOURCES := ../harness.c event.c
+EXTRA_SOURCES := ../harness.c event.c lib.c
SUB_TARGETS = ebb
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/count_instructions.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/count_instructions.c
index 312b4f0fd27c..5e241e14f204 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/count_instructions.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/count_instructions.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include "event.h"
#include "utils.h"
+#include "lib.h"
extern void thirty_two_instruction_loop(u64 loops);
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ static u64 determine_overhead(struct event *events)
return overhead;
}
-static int count_instructions(void)
+static int test_body(void)
{
struct event events[2];
u64 overhead;
@@ -129,6 +130,11 @@ static int count_instructions(void)
return 0;
}
+static int count_instructions(void)
+{
+ return eat_cpu(test_body);
+}
+
int main(void)
{
return test_harness(count_instructions, "count_instructions");