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Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:56:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dvhart@...ux.intel.com
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: futex testsuite suggestion...


First of all, thanks so much for writing your futex test suite, it's
proved invaluable for sparc64 kernel development for me lately.

I'd like to suggest that you add a test that triggers transparent
hugepages, because if an architecture doesn't implement
__get_user_pages_fast() such futexes cause a machine to hang.

I hacked up something simple that took the existing performance
test and made it operate in a register allocated using memalign().

I would suggest doing a memalign(HUGEPAGE_SIZE, HUGEPAGE_SIZE) then
iterating running a futex test within each normal page within that
hugepage.

Thanks!
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