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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2013-07-18 22:33:46 (GMT)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-07-22 15:41:56 (GMT)
commita198996c7afae0097c67a61851f19863e59697b2 (patch)
treef62c96cb1b67ae9bbc465134bc9e66180ff07092 /tools/perf/bench
parent2b821cce1c950cead081d779db0dda680192c4bd (diff)
downloadlinux-a198996c7afae0097c67a61851f19863e59697b2.tar.xz
perf bench: Fix memcpy benchmark for large sizes
The glibc calloc() function has an optimization to not explicitely memset() very large calloc allocations that just came from mmap(), because they are known to be zero. This could result in the perf memcpy benchmark reading only from the zero page, which gives unrealistic results. Always call memset explicitly on the source area to avoid this problem. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pzz2qrdq9eymxda0y8yxdn33@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/bench')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
index 25fd3f1..8cdca43 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ static void alloc_mem(void **dst, void **src, size_t length)
*src = zalloc(length);
if (!*src)
die("memory allocation failed - maybe length is too large?\n");
+ /* Make sure to always replace the zero pages even if MMAP_THRESH is crossed */
+ memset(*src, 0, length);
}
static u64 do_memcpy_cycle(memcpy_t fn, size_t len, bool prefault)