From 7522ef402c324481fabd841a89810fd944cd3cec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xavier de Gaye <xdegaye@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 11:06:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to
 fix test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.

---
 Lib/test/support/__init__.py | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 Lib/test/test_functools.py   |  2 +-
 Misc/NEWS                    |  6 ++++++
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
index 1e277775174..fa344ece238 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ __all__ = [
     "check__all__", "requires_android_level", "requires_multiprocessing_queue",
     # sys
     "is_jython", "is_android", "check_impl_detail", "unix_shell",
+    "setswitchinterval",
     # network
     "HOST", "IPV6_ENABLED", "find_unused_port", "bind_port", "open_urlresource",
     # processes
@@ -2547,3 +2548,18 @@ def missing_compiler_executable(cmd_names=[]):
             continue
         if spawn.find_executable(cmd[0]) is None:
             return cmd[0]
+
+
+_is_android_emulator = None
+def setswitchinterval(interval):
+    # Setting a very low gil interval on the Android emulator causes python
+    # to hang (issue #26939).
+    minimum_interval = 1e-5
+    if is_android and interval < minimum_interval:
+        global _is_android_emulator
+        if _is_android_emulator is None:
+            _is_android_emulator = (subprocess.check_output(
+                               ['getprop', 'ro.kernel.qemu']).strip() == b'1')
+        if _is_android_emulator:
+            interval = minimum_interval
+    return sys.setswitchinterval(interval)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_functools.py b/Lib/test/test_functools.py
index 75427dfad34..ba2a52fb734 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_functools.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_functools.py
@@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ class TestLRU:
                 f.cache_clear()
 
         orig_si = sys.getswitchinterval()
-        sys.setswitchinterval(1e-6)
+        support.setswitchinterval(1e-6)
         try:
             # create n threads in order to fill cache
             threads = [threading.Thread(target=full, args=[k])
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8023df36a0b..a15bb9bf871 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ Library
 - Issue #28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer
   writes the index file when it is not changed.
 
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix
+  test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.
+
 
 What's New in Python 3.6.0 release candidate 1
 ==============================================