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Erik Bosmanf1326972008-04-11 18:57:22 +02001/*
2 * Tests for prctl(PR_GET_TSC, ...) / prctl(PR_SET_TSC, ...)
3 *
4 * Tests if the control register is updated correctly
5 * when set with prctl()
6 *
7 * Warning: this test will cause a very high load for a few seconds
8 *
9 */
10
11#include <stdio.h>
12#include <stdlib.h>
13#include <unistd.h>
14#include <signal.h>
15#include <inttypes.h>
16#include <wait.h>
17
18
19#include <sys/prctl.h>
20#include <linux/prctl.h>
21
22/* Get/set the process' ability to use the timestamp counter instruction */
23#ifndef PR_GET_TSC
24#define PR_GET_TSC 25
25#define PR_SET_TSC 26
26# define PR_TSC_ENABLE 1 /* allow the use of the timestamp counter */
27# define PR_TSC_SIGSEGV 2 /* throw a SIGSEGV instead of reading the TSC */
28#endif
29
30/* snippet from wikipedia :-) */
31
32uint64_t rdtsc() {
33uint32_t lo, hi;
34/* We cannot use "=A", since this would use %rax on x86_64 */
35__asm__ __volatile__ ("rdtsc" : "=a" (lo), "=d" (hi));
36return (uint64_t)hi << 32 | lo;
37}
38
39int should_segv = 0;
40
41void sigsegv_cb(int sig)
42{
43 if (!should_segv)
44 {
45 fprintf(stderr, "FATAL ERROR, rdtsc() failed while enabled\n");
46 exit(0);
47 }
48 if (prctl(PR_SET_TSC, PR_TSC_ENABLE) < 0)
49 {
50 perror("prctl");
51 exit(0);
52 }
53 should_segv = 0;
54
55 rdtsc();
56}
57
58void task(void)
59{
60 signal(SIGSEGV, sigsegv_cb);
61 alarm(10);
62 for(;;)
63 {
64 rdtsc();
65 if (should_segv)
66 {
67 fprintf(stderr, "FATAL ERROR, rdtsc() succeeded while disabled\n");
68 exit(0);
69 }
70 if (prctl(PR_SET_TSC, PR_TSC_SIGSEGV) < 0)
71 {
72 perror("prctl");
73 exit(0);
74 }
75 should_segv = 1;
76 }
77}
78
79
80int main(int argc, char **argv)
81{
82 int n_tasks = 100, i;
83
84 fprintf(stderr, "[No further output means we're allright]\n");
85
86 for (i=0; i<n_tasks; i++)
87 if (fork() == 0)
88 task();
89
90 for (i=0; i<n_tasks; i++)
91 wait(NULL);
92
93 exit(0);
94}
95