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The usefulness of having a standard way of testing syscall performance has come up from time to time[0]. Furthermore, some of our testing machinery (such as 'mmtests') already makes use of a simplified version of the microbenchmark. This patch mainly takes the same idea to measure syscall throughput compatible with 'perf-bench' via getppid(2), yet without any of the additional template stuff from Ingo's version (based on numa.c). The code is identical to what mmtests uses. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160201074156.GA27156@gmail.com/ Committer notes: Add mising stdlib.h and unistd.h to get the prototypes for exit() and getppid(). Committer testing: $ perf bench Usage: perf bench [<common options>] <collection> <benchmark> [<options>] # List of all available benchmark collections: sched: Scheduler and IPC benchmarks syscall: System call benchmarks mem: Memory access benchmarks numa: NUMA scheduling and MM benchmarks futex: Futex stressing benchmarks epoll: Epoll stressing benchmarks internals: Perf-internals benchmarks all: All benchmarks $ $ perf bench syscall # List of available benchmarks for collection 'syscall': basic: Benchmark for basic getppid(2) calls all: Run all syscall benchmarks $ perf bench syscall basic # Running 'syscall/basic' benchmark: # Executed 10000000 getppid() calls Total time: 3.679 [sec] 0.367957 usecs/op 2717708 ops/sec $ perf bench syscall all # Running syscall/basic benchmark... # Executed 10000000 getppid() calls Total time: 3.644 [sec] 0.364456 usecs/op 2743815 ops/sec $ Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190308181747.l36zqz2avtivrr3c@linux-r8p5 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.