[PATCH 1/1] powerpc/crypto: Add cond_resched() in crc-vpmsum self-test

Chris Smart chris.smart at humanservices.gov.au
Mon Nov 4 10:33:56 AEDT 2019


The stress test for vpmsum implementations executes a long for loop in
the kernel. This blocks the scheduler, which prevents other tasks from
running, resulting in a warning.

This fix adds a call to cond_reshed() at the end of each loop, which
allows the scheduler to run other tasks as required.

Signed-off-by: Chris Smart <chris.smart at humanservices.gov.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/crypto/crc-vpmsum_test.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/crypto/crc-vpmsum_test.c b/arch/powerpc/crypto/crc-vpmsum_test.c
index 47985219a68f..dce86e75f1a8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/crypto/crc-vpmsum_test.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/crypto/crc-vpmsum_test.c
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ static int __init crc_test_init(void)
 				       crc32, verify32, len);
 				break;
 			}
+		cond_resched();
 		}
 		pr_info("crc-vpmsum_test done, completed %lu iterations\n", i);
 	} while (0);
-- 
2.21.0

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