From d93fc7ac88c7347d1c31ca158d1466d1ce2097e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Clark Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:55:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] perf tests: Fixes hang in zstd compression test by changing the source of random data 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 Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexey Budankov Cc: Jeremy Linton Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3d8cc701-df4e-f949-1715-5118b530e990@arm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- 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 899604d17b85..63a91ec473bb 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() {