generic, x86: add tests for prctl PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC

This patch adds three tests that test whether the PR_GET_TSC and
PR_SET_TSC commands have the desirable effect.

The tests check whether the control register is updated correctly
at context switches and try to discover bugs while enabling/disabling
the timestamp counter.

Signed-off-by: Erik Bosman <ejbosman@cs.vu.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 94 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/prctl/disable-tsc-test.c b/Documentation/prctl/disable-tsc-test.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..843c81eac235
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/prctl/disable-tsc-test.c
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+/*
+ * Tests for prctl(PR_GET_TSC, ...) / prctl(PR_SET_TSC, ...)
+ *
+ * Basic test to test behaviour of PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <inttypes.h>
+
+
+#include <sys/prctl.h>
+#include <linux/prctl.h>
+
+/* Get/set the process' ability to use the timestamp counter instruction */
+#ifndef PR_GET_TSC
+#define PR_GET_TSC 25
+#define PR_SET_TSC 26
+# define PR_TSC_ENABLE          1   /* allow the use of the timestamp counter */
+# define PR_TSC_SIGSEGV         2   /* throw a SIGSEGV instead of reading the TSC */
+#endif
+
+const char *tsc_names[] =
+{
+        [0] = "[not set]",
+        [PR_TSC_ENABLE] = "PR_TSC_ENABLE",
+        [PR_TSC_SIGSEGV] = "PR_TSC_SIGSEGV",
+};
+
+uint64_t rdtsc() {
+uint32_t lo, hi;
+/* We cannot use "=A", since this would use %rax on x86_64 */
+__asm__ __volatile__ ("rdtsc" : "=a" (lo), "=d" (hi));
+return (uint64_t)hi << 32 | lo;
+}
+
+void sigsegv_cb(int sig)
+{
+        int tsc_val = 0;
+
+        printf("[ SIG_SEGV ]\n");
+        printf("prctl(PR_GET_TSC, &tsc_val); ");
+        fflush(stdout);
+
+        if ( prctl(PR_GET_TSC, &tsc_val) == -1)
+                perror("prctl");
+
+        printf("tsc_val == %s\n", tsc_names[tsc_val]);
+        printf("prctl(PR_SET_TSC, PR_TSC_ENABLE)\n");
+        fflush(stdout);
+        if ( prctl(PR_SET_TSC, PR_TSC_ENABLE) == -1)
+                perror("prctl");
+
+        printf("rdtsc() == ");
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+        int tsc_val = 0;
+
+        signal(SIGSEGV, sigsegv_cb);
+
+        printf("rdtsc() == %llu\n", (unsigned long long)rdtsc());
+        printf("prctl(PR_GET_TSC, &tsc_val); ");
+        fflush(stdout);
+
+        if ( prctl(PR_GET_TSC, &tsc_val) == -1)
+                perror("prctl");
+
+        printf("tsc_val == %s\n", tsc_names[tsc_val]);
+        printf("rdtsc() == %llu\n", (unsigned long long)rdtsc());
+        printf("prctl(PR_SET_TSC, PR_TSC_ENABLE)\n");
+        fflush(stdout);
+
+        if ( prctl(PR_SET_TSC, PR_TSC_ENABLE) == -1)
+                perror("prctl");
+
+        printf("rdtsc() == %llu\n", (unsigned long long)rdtsc());
+        printf("prctl(PR_SET_TSC, PR_TSC_SIGSEGV)\n");
+        fflush(stdout);
+
+        if ( prctl(PR_SET_TSC, PR_TSC_SIGSEGV) == -1)
+                perror("prctl");
+
+        printf("rdtsc() == ");
+        fflush(stdout);
+        printf("%llu\n", (unsigned long long)rdtsc());
+        fflush(stdout);
+
+        exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+}
+