Re: locking: Add kselftests for ww_mutex

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Chris,

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nicolai HÃhnle was looking into a deadlock within ww_mutexes (that has
> been fixed by Peter's mutex rewrite) and to support his changes, I
> thought it was be useful to have a small validation suite for ww_mutex.

How long do these selftests typically take?
Do they need multiple CPU cores, lots of memory?
I.e. after how much time without any output should I start to worry
(on an emulated
Atari running Linux/m68k ;-)?

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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