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Pull in a version of Anton's null_syscall benchmark:
  http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rui Teng <rui.teng@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Anton Blanchard authored and Michael Ellerman committed Nov 14, 2016
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/.gitignore
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gettimeofday
context_switch
mmap_bench
futex_bench
futex_bench
null_syscall
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/Makefile
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TEST_PROGS := gettimeofday context_switch mmap_bench futex_bench
TEST_PROGS := gettimeofday context_switch mmap_bench futex_bench null_syscall

CFLAGS += -O2

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157 changes: 157 additions & 0 deletions tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/null_syscall.c
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/*
* Test null syscall performance
*
* Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Anton Blanchard, IBM
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*/

#define NR_LOOPS 10000000

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <signal.h>

static volatile int soak_done;
unsigned long long clock_frequency;
unsigned long long timebase_frequency;
double timebase_multiplier;

static inline unsigned long long mftb(void)
{
unsigned long low;

asm volatile("mftb %0" : "=r" (low));

return low;
}

static void sigalrm_handler(int unused)
{
soak_done = 1;
}

/*
* Use a timer instead of busy looping on clock_gettime() so we don't
* pollute profiles with glibc and VDSO hits.
*/
static void cpu_soak_usecs(unsigned long usecs)
{
struct itimerval val;

memset(&val, 0, sizeof(val));
val.it_value.tv_usec = usecs;

signal(SIGALRM, sigalrm_handler);
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &val, NULL);

while (1) {
if (soak_done)
break;
}

signal(SIGALRM, SIG_DFL);
}

/*
* This only works with recent kernels where cpufreq modifies
* /proc/cpuinfo dynamically.
*/
static void get_proc_frequency(void)
{
FILE *f;
char line[128];
char *p, *end;
unsigned long v;
double d;
char *override;

/* Try to get out of low power/low frequency mode */
cpu_soak_usecs(0.25 * 1000000);

f = fopen("/proc/cpuinfo", "r");
if (f == NULL)
return;

timebase_frequency = 0;

while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), f) != NULL) {
if (strncmp(line, "timebase", 8) == 0) {
p = strchr(line, ':');
if (p != NULL) {
v = strtoull(p + 1, &end, 0);
if (end != p + 1)
timebase_frequency = v;
}
}

if (((strncmp(line, "clock", 5) == 0) ||
(strncmp(line, "cpu MHz", 7) == 0))) {
p = strchr(line, ':');
if (p != NULL) {
d = strtod(p + 1, &end);
if (end != p + 1) {
/* Find fastest clock frequency */
if ((d * 1000000ULL) > clock_frequency)
clock_frequency = d * 1000000ULL;
}
}
}
}

fclose(f);

override = getenv("FREQUENCY");
if (override)
clock_frequency = strtoull(override, NULL, 10);

if (timebase_frequency)
timebase_multiplier = (double)clock_frequency
/ timebase_frequency;
else
timebase_multiplier = 1;
}

static void do_null_syscall(unsigned long nr)
{
unsigned long i;

for (i = 0; i < nr; i++)
getppid();
}

#define TIME(A, STR) \

int main(void)
{
unsigned long tb_start, tb_now;
struct timespec tv_start, tv_now;
unsigned long long elapsed_ns, elapsed_tb;

get_proc_frequency();

clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &tv_start);
tb_start = mftb();

do_null_syscall(NR_LOOPS);

clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &tv_now);
tb_now = mftb();

elapsed_ns = (tv_now.tv_sec - tv_start.tv_sec) * 1000000000ULL +
(tv_now.tv_nsec - tv_start.tv_nsec);
elapsed_tb = tb_now - tb_start;

printf("%10.2f ns %10.2f cycles\n", (float)elapsed_ns / NR_LOOPS,
(float)elapsed_tb * timebase_multiplier / NR_LOOPS);

return 0;
}

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