lib/find_bit_benchmark.c: avoid soft lockup in test_find_first_bit()
authorYury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>
Fri, 11 May 2018 23:01:39 +0000 (16:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 12 May 2018 00:28:45 +0000 (17:28 -0700)
test_find_first_bit() is intentionally sub-optimal, and may cause soft
lockup due to long time of run on some systems.  So decrease length of
bitmap to traverse to avoid lockup.

With the change below, time of test execution doesn't exceed 0.2 seconds
on my testing system.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180420171949.15710-1-ynorov@caviumnetworks.com
Fixes: 4441fca0a27f5 ("lib: test module for find_*_bit() functions")
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/find_bit_benchmark.c

index 5985a25..5367ffa 100644 (file)
@@ -132,7 +132,12 @@ static int __init find_bit_test(void)
        test_find_next_bit(bitmap, BITMAP_LEN);
        test_find_next_zero_bit(bitmap, BITMAP_LEN);
        test_find_last_bit(bitmap, BITMAP_LEN);
-       test_find_first_bit(bitmap, BITMAP_LEN);
+
+       /*
+        * test_find_first_bit() may take some time, so
+        * traverse only part of bitmap to avoid soft lockup.
+        */
+       test_find_first_bit(bitmap, BITMAP_LEN / 10);
        test_find_next_and_bit(bitmap, bitmap2, BITMAP_LEN);
 
        pr_err("\nStart testing find_bit() with sparse bitmap\n");