The fill_buf code prevents compiler optimizating the entire read loop
away by writing the final value of the variable into a file. While it
achieves the goal, writing into a file requires significant amount of
work within the innermost test loop and also error handling.
A simpler approach is to take advantage of volatile. Writing through
a pointer to a volatile variable is enough to prevent compiler from
optimizing the write away, and therefore compiler cannot remove the
read loop either.
Add a volatile 'value_sink' into resctrl_tests.c and make fill_buf to
write into it. As a result, the error handling in fill_buf.c can be
simplified.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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