For a background task the fork helpers are more appropriate, since we
can explicitly cancel children. Also, anything that does real work is
supposed to be in fixtures.

Cc: Tiago Vignatti <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>

--
Tiago, can you pls check that I haven't broken anythig?

Thanks, Daniel
---
 tests/kms_mmap_write_crc.c | 19 +++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/kms_mmap_write_crc.c b/tests/kms_mmap_write_crc.c
index 6984bbd1f000..2e9a282d4293 100644
--- a/tests/kms_mmap_write_crc.c
+++ b/tests/kms_mmap_write_crc.c
@@ -243,6 +243,8 @@ static void run_test(data_t *data)
        igt_skip("no valid crtc/connector combinations found\n");
 }
 
+struct igt_helper_process hog;
+
 /**
  * fork_cpuhog_helper:
  *
@@ -250,15 +252,9 @@ static void run_test(data_t *data)
  * fill the CPU caches with random information so they can get stalled,
  * provoking incoherency with the GPU most likely.
  */
-static void fork_cpuhog_helper(void) {
-
-       /* TODO: if the parent is about to die before its child, e.g.
-        * igt_assert_crc_equal() fails, there will be a boring exit handler
-        * waiting the child to exit also. A workaround is to simply disable 
that
-        * handler, buy this needs to be fixed properly in an elegant way. */
-       igt_disable_exit_handler();
-
-       igt_fork(hog, 1) {
+static void fork_cpuhog_helper(void)
+{
+       igt_fork_helper(&hog) {
                while (1) {
                        usleep(10); /* quite ramdom really. */
 
@@ -297,16 +293,19 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                igt_require_pipe_crc();
 
                igt_display_init(&data.display, data.drm_fd);
+
+               fork_cpuhog_helper();
        }
 
        igt_info("Using %d rounds for the test\n", ROUNDS);
-       fork_cpuhog_helper();
 
        for (i = 0; i < ROUNDS; i++)
                run_test(&data);
 
        igt_fixture {
                igt_display_fini(&data.display);
+
+               igt_stop_helper(&hog);
        }
 
        igt_exit();
-- 
2.7.0

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