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Version: [ 2.6.11.8 ] [ 2.6.25 ] [ 2.6.25.8 ] [ 2.6.31.13 ] Architecture: [ i386 ]
  1 /*
  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 
 32 uint64_t rdtsc() {
 33 uint32_t lo, hi;
 34 /* We cannot use "=A", since this would use %rax on x86_64 */
 35 __asm__ __volatile__ ("rdtsc" : "=a" (lo), "=d" (hi));
 36 return (uint64_t)hi << 32 | lo;
 37 }
 38 
 39 int should_segv = 0;
 40 
 41 void 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 
 58 void 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 
 80 int 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 
 96 
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