new file mode 100644
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/*
+ * Thread Exerciser
+ *
+ * Unlike testthread which is mainly concerned about testing thread
+ * semantics this test is used to exercise the thread creation and
+ * accounting. A version of this test found a problem with clashing
+ * cpu_indexes which caused a break in plugin handling.
+ *
+ * Based on the original test case by Nikolay Igotti.
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2020 Linaro Ltd
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+ */
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <pthread.h>
+
+int max_threads = 10;
+
+typedef struct {
+ int delay;
+} ThreadArg;
+
+static void *thread_fn(void* varg)
+{
+ ThreadArg *arg = varg;
+ usleep(arg->delay);
+ free(arg);
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+ int i;
+ pthread_t *threads;
+
+ if (argc > 1) {
+ max_threads = atoi(argv[1]);
+ }
+ threads = calloc(sizeof(pthread_t), max_threads);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < max_threads; i++) {
+ ThreadArg *arg = calloc(sizeof(ThreadArg), 1);
+ arg->delay = i * 100;
+ pthread_create(threads + i, NULL, thread_fn, arg);
+ }
+
+ printf("Created %d threads\n", max_threads);
+
+ /* sleep until roughly half the threads have "finished" */
+ usleep(max_threads * 50);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < max_threads; i++) {
+ pthread_join(threads[i], NULL);
+ }
+
+ printf("Done\n");
+
+ return 0;
+}
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ run-float_%: float_%
testthread: LDFLAGS+=-lpthread
+threadcount: LDFLAGS+=-lpthread
+
# We define the runner for test-mmap after the individual
# architectures have defined their supported pages sizes. If no
# additional page sizes are defined we only run the default test.