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Commit 31a72bce authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney Committed by Ingo Molnar
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rcu: make rcutorture more vicious: reinstate boot-time testing



This patch re-institutes the ability to build rcutorture directly into
the Linux kernel.  The reason that this capability was removed was that
this could result in your kernel being pretty much useless, as rcutorture
would be running starting from early boot.  This problem has been avoided
by (1) making rcutorture run only three seconds of every six by default,
(2) adding a CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE that permits rcutorture
to be quiesced at boot time, and (3) adding a sysctl in /proc named
/proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable that permits rcutorture to be
quiesced and unquiesced when built into the kernel.

Please note that this /proc file is -not- available when rcutorture
is built as a module.  Please also note that to get the earlier
take-no-prisoners behavior, you must use the boot command line to set
rcutorture's "stutter" parameter to zero.

The rcutorture quiescing mechanism is currently quite crude: loops
in each rcutorture process that poll a global variable once per tick.
Suggestions for improvement are welcome.  The default action will
be to reduce the polling rate to a few times per second.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent d120f65f
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