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When working on SoC bring-up, (a full) userspace may not be available, making it hard to benchmark the CPU performance of the system under development. Still, one may want to have a rough idea of the (relative) performance of one or more CPU cores, especially when working on e.g. the clock driver that controls the CPU core clock(s). Hence make the classical Dhrystone 2.1 benchmark available as a Linux kernel test module, based on[1]. When built-in, this benchmark can be run without any userspace present. Parallel runs (run on multiple CPU cores) are supported, just kick the "run" file multiple times. Note that the actual figures depend on the configuration options that control compiler optimization (e.g. CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE vs. CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE), and on the compiler options used when building the kernel in general. Hence numbers may differ from those obtained by running similar benchmarks in userspace. [1] https://github.com/qris/dhrystone-deb.git Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4d07ad990740a5f1e426ce4566fb514f60ec9bdd.1670509558.git.geert+renesas@glider.be Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> [geert+renesas@glider.be: fix uninitialized use of ret] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2212190857310.137329@ramsan.of.borg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.