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* [PATCH] Fixes hang in zstd compression test by changing the source of random data.
@ 2019-08-22 13:55 James Clark
  2019-08-22 21:24 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: James Clark @ 2019-08-22 13:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: peterz, mingo, acme, alexander.shishkin, jolsa, namhyung,
	alexey.budankov
  Cc: linux-perf-users, nd, linux-kernel, Jeremy Linton

Running 'perf test' with zstd compression linked will hang at the test
'Zstd perf.data compression/decompression' because /dev/random blocks
reads until there is enough entropy. This means that the test will
appear to never complete unless the mouse is continually moved while
running it.

Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
---
 tools/perf/tests/shell/record+zstd_comp_decomp.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/record+zstd_comp_decomp.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/record+zstd_comp_decomp.sh
index 899604d1..63a91ec 100755
--- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/record+zstd_comp_decomp.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/record+zstd_comp_decomp.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ skip_if_no_z_record() {
 collect_z_record() {
 	echo "Collecting compressed record file:"
 	$perf_tool record -o $trace_file -g -z -F 5000 -- \
-		dd count=500 if=/dev/random of=/dev/null
+		dd count=500 if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null
 }
 
 check_compressed_stats() {
-- 
2.7.4


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2019-08-22 21:24 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-08-22 21:24   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-08-23  8:30     ` James Clark
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