There seems to have no guarantee that time() will return the same for the two calls even if there's no delay, e.g. when a fault is accidentally crossing the changing of a second. Meanwhile, this message is also not helping that much since delay could happen with a lot of reasons, e.g., schedule latency of resolving thread. It may not mean an issue with uffd. Neither do I saw this error triggered either in the past runs. Even if it triggers, it'll be drown in all the rest of test logs. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c index 6dab8ef034a0..5cde062f07bc 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c @@ -568,7 +568,6 @@ static void *locking_thread(void *arg) unsigned long long count; char randstate[64]; unsigned int seed; - time_t start; if (bounces & BOUNCE_RANDOM) { seed = (unsigned int) time(NULL) - bounces; @@ -605,7 +604,6 @@ static void *locking_thread(void *arg) page_nr += 1; page_nr %= nr_pages; - start = time(NULL); if (bounces & BOUNCE_VERIFY) { count = *area_count(area_dst, page_nr); if (!count) { @@ -668,12 +666,6 @@ static void *locking_thread(void *arg) count++; *area_count(area_dst, page_nr) = count_verify[page_nr] = count; pthread_mutex_unlock(area_mutex(area_dst, page_nr)); - - if (time(NULL) - start > 1) - fprintf(stderr, - "userfault too slow %ld " - "possible false positive with overcommit\n", - time(NULL) - start); } return NULL; -- 2.26.2