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Release 4.10 tools/testing/selftests/prctl/disable-tsc-on-off-stress-test.c

/*
 * Tests for prctl(PR_GET_TSC, ...) / prctl(PR_SET_TSC, ...)
 *
 * Tests if the control register is updated correctly
 * when set with prctl()
 *
 * Warning: this test will cause a very high load for a few seconds
 *
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
#include <wait.h>


#include <sys/prctl.h>
#include <linux/prctl.h>

/* Get/set the process' ability to use the timestamp counter instruction */
#ifndef PR_GET_TSC

#define PR_GET_TSC 25

#define PR_SET_TSC 26

# define PR_TSC_ENABLE		1   
/* allow the use of the timestamp counter */

# define PR_TSC_SIGSEGV		2   
/* throw a SIGSEGV instead of reading the TSC */
#endif

/* snippet from wikipedia :-) */


static uint64_t rdtsc(void) { uint32_t lo, hi; /* We cannot use "=A", since this would use %rax on x86_64 */ __asm__ __volatile__ ("rdtsc" : "=a" (lo), "=d" (hi)); return (uint64_t)hi << 32 | lo; }

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int should_segv = 0;
static void sigsegv_cb(int sig) { if (!should_segv) { fprintf(stderr, "FATAL ERROR, rdtsc() failed while enabled\n"); exit(0); } if (prctl(PR_SET_TSC, PR_TSC_ENABLE) < 0) { perror("prctl"); exit(0); } should_segv = 0; rdtsc(); }

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static void task(void) { signal(SIGSEGV, sigsegv_cb); alarm(10); for(;;) { rdtsc(); if (should_segv) { fprintf(stderr, "FATAL ERROR, rdtsc() succeeded while disabled\n"); exit(0); } if (prctl(PR_SET_TSC, PR_TSC_SIGSEGV) < 0) { perror("prctl"); exit(0); } should_segv = 1; } }

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int main(void) { int n_tasks = 100, i; fprintf(stderr, "[No further output means we're allright]\n"); for (i=0; i<n_tasks; i++) if (fork() == 0) task(); for (i=0; i<n_tasks; i++) wait(NULL); exit(0); }

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