generic, x86: add tests for prctl PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC

This patch adds three tests that test whether the PR_GET_TSC and
PR_SET_TSC commands have the desirable effect.

The tests check whether the control register is updated correctly
at context switches and try to discover bugs while enabling/disabling
the timestamp counter.

Signed-off-by: Erik Bosman <ejbosman@cs.vu.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 95 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/prctl/disable-tsc-on-off-stress-test.c b/Documentation/prctl/disable-tsc-on-off-stress-test.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1fcd91445375
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/prctl/disable-tsc-on-off-stress-test.c
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+/*
+ * 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 :-) */
+
+uint64_t rdtsc() {
+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;
+}
+
+int should_segv = 0;
+
+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();
+}
+
+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;
+	}
+}
+
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+	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);
+}
+