Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/10] torture: Explain and simplify odd "for" loop in mkinitrd.sh | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2019 13:50:00 -0800 |
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Why a Bourne-shell "for" loop? And why 192 instances of "a"? This commit adds a shell comment to present the answer to these mysteries. It also uses a series of factor-of-four Bourne-shell assignments to make it easy to see how many instances there are, replacing the earlier wall of 'a' characters.
Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> [ paulmck: Fix wrong-variable bugs noted by Andrea Parri. ] --- .../selftests/rcutorture/bin/mkinitrd.sh | 23 ++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/mkinitrd.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/mkinitrd.sh index da298394daa2..e79eb35c41e2 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/mkinitrd.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/mkinitrd.sh @@ -40,17 +40,24 @@ mkdir $T cat > $T/init << '__EOF___' #!/bin/sh # Run in userspace a few milliseconds every second. This helps to -# exercise the NO_HZ_FULL portions of RCU. +# exercise the NO_HZ_FULL portions of RCU. The 192 instances of "a" was +# empirically shown to give a nice multi-millisecond burst of user-mode +# execution on a 2GHz CPU, as desired. Modern CPUs will vary from a +# couple of milliseconds up to perhaps 100 milliseconds, which is an +# acceptable range. +# +# Why not calibrate an exact delay? Because within this initrd, we +# are restricted to Bourne-shell builtins, which as far as I know do not +# provide any means of obtaining a fine-grained timestamp. + +a4="a a a a" +a16="$a4 $a4 $a4 $a4" +a64="$a16 $a16 $a16 $a16" +a192="$a64 $a64 $a64" while : do q= - for i in \ - a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a \ - a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a \ - a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a \ - a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a \ - a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a \ - a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a + for i in $a192 do q="$q $i" done -- 2.17.1
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