[SRU][N][PATCH v5 1/2] selftests/powerpc: Lower run time of count_stcx_fail test
Zixing Liu
zixing.liu at canonical.com
Mon Apr 27 08:15:18 UTC 2026
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2141536
The count_stcx_fail test runs for close to or just over 2 minutes, which
means it sometimes times out.
That's overkill for a test that just demonstrates some PMU counters
are working. Drop the 64 billion instruction case, to lower the runtime
to ~30s.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
(cherry picked from commit 3b9bde403aafa55dcbe7dc250b95af917610f139)
Signed-off-by: Zixing Liu <zixing.liu at canonical.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/count_stcx_fail.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/count_stcx_fail.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/count_stcx_fail.c
index 2070a1e2b3a5..d8dd9a9c6c1b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/count_stcx_fail.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/count_stcx_fail.c
@@ -144,9 +144,6 @@ static int test_body(void)
/* Run for 16Bi instructions */
FAIL_IF(do_count_loop(events, 16000000000, overhead, true));
- /* Run for 64Bi instructions */
- FAIL_IF(do_count_loop(events, 64000000000, overhead, true));
-
event_close(&events[0]);
event_close(&events[1]);
--
2.53.0
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