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Kees Cook committed c7fea488767
lkdtm: Provide timing tests for atomic_t vs refcount_t While not a crash test, this does provide two tight atomic_t and refcount_t loops for performance comparisons: cd /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash perf stat -B -- cat <(echo ATOMIC_TIMING) > DIRECT perf stat -B -- cat <(echo REFCOUNT_TIMING) > DIRECT Looking a CPU cycles is the best way to example the fast-path (rather than instruction counts, since conditional jumps will be executed but will be negligible due to branch-prediction). Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>