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Utility for testing and benchmarking a Linux VDSO
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vdsotest ======== vdsotest is a utility for testing and benchmarking a Linux VDSO. C library support for the VDSO is not necessary to use vdsotest. Building -------- $ ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make Usage ------- Usage: vdsotest [OPTION...] API TEST-TYPE or: vdsotest [OPTION...] list-apis or: vdsotest [OPTION...] list-test-types where API must be one of: clock-gettime-monotonic clock-getres-monotonic clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse clock-getres-monotonic-coarse clock-gettime-realtime clock-getres-realtime clock-gettime-realtime-coarse clock-getres-realtime-coarse getcpu gettimeofday and TEST-TYPE must be one of: verify bench abi -d, --duration=SEC Duration of test run in seconds (default 1) -f, --maxfails=NUM Maximum number of failures before terminating test run (default 10) -g, --debug Enable debug output which may perturb bench results; implies --verbose -v, --verbose Enable verbose output -?, --help Give this help list --usage Give a short usage message -V, --version Print program version Examples -------- Run all tests. vdsotest-all is a simple script included in the distribution that runs all API and test combinations: $ vdsotest-all Verify that the VDSO gettimeofday returns results consistent with the system call gettimeofday over a period of 3 seconds: $ vdsotest -d 3 gettimeofday verify Check that the VDSO gettimeofday does not unnecessarily deviate from the system call's ABI (an exception would be a case where the system call would return EFAULT instead of dereferencing a bad pointer, the VDSO is allowed to crash the process): $ vdsotest gettimeofday abi Note that the ABI tests will produce several dozen processes that are expected to crash. You may want to disable kernel reporting of fatal signals, exception traces, etc. Benchmark the VDSO gettimeofday against the system call over a period of 10 seconds: $ vdsotest -d 10 gettimeofday bench gettimeofday system calls per second: 12071347 gettimeofday vdso calls per second: 46331157 (3.84x speedup)
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