kernel/linux.git/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/doc, branch linux-4.16.y

rcu: Drive TASKS_RCU directly off of PREEMPT

2017-08-17T14:26:04+00:00

The actual use of TASKS_RCU is only when PREEMPT, otherwise RCU-sched is used instead. This commit therefore makes synchronize_rcu_tasks() and call_rcu_tasks() available always, but mapped to synchronize_sched() and call_rcu_sched(), respectively, when !PREEMPT. This approach also allows some #ifdefs to be removed from rcutorture. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: Eliminate NOCBs CPU-state Kconfig options

2017-06-09T01:52:43+00:00

The CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL, CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE, and CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO Kconfig options are used only in testing and are redundant with the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. This commit therefore removes these three Kconfig options and adjusts the rcutorture scripts to use the boot parameter instead. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Remove debugfs tracing

2017-06-09T01:52:43+00:00

RCU's debugfs tracing used to be the only reasonable low-level debug information available, but ftrace and event tracing has since surpassed the RCU debugfs level of usefulness. This commit therefore removes RCU's debugfs tracing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Remove SPARSE_RCU_POINTER Kconfig option

2017-06-09T01:52:41+00:00

The sparse-based checking for non-RCU accesses to RCU-protected pointers has been around for a very long time, and it is now the only type of sparse-based checking that is optional. This commit therefore makes it unconditional. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Fengguang Wu

rcu: Remove the now-obsolete PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option

2017-06-09T01:52:41+00:00

The PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option was initially added due to the volume of messages from PROVE_RCU: Doing just one per boot would have required excessive numbers of boots to locate them all. However, PROVE_RCU messages are now relatively rare, so there is no longer any reason to need more than one such message per boot. This commit therefore removes the PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar

rcu: Remove nohz_full full-system-idle state machine

2017-06-09T01:52:39+00:00

The NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE full-system-idle capability was added in 2013 by commit 0edd1b1784cb ("nohz_full: Add full-system-idle state machine"), but has not been used. This commit therefore removes it. If it turns out to be needed later, this commit can always be reverted. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Linus Torvalds

rcu: Remove the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig option

2017-06-09T01:52:39+00:00

Anything that can be done with the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig option can also be done with the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter. This commit therefore removes this Kconfig option. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Rik van Riel

rcu: Remove _SLOW_ Kconfig options

2017-06-09T01:52:38+00:00

The RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP, and RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY Kconfig options are only useful for torture testing, and there are the rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay, rcutree.gp_init_delay, and rcutree.gp_preinit_delay kernel boot parameters that rcutorture can use instead. The effect of these parameters is to artificially slow down grace period initialization and cleanup in order to make some types of race conditions happen more often. This commit therefore simplifies Tree RCU a bit by removing the Kconfig options and adding the corresponding kernel parameters to rcutorture's .boot files instead. However, this commit also leaves out the kernel parameters for TREE02, TREE04, and TREE07 in order to have about the same number of tests slowed as not slowed. TREE01, TREE03, TREE05, and TREE06 are slowed, and the rest are not slowed. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

torture: Update RCU test scenario documentation

2017-01-15T05:35:59+00:00

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

rcutorture/doc: Create initrd using dracut

2016-06-14T23:03:28+00:00

Using dracut is another way to get an initramfs for KVM-based RCU torture tests, which is more flexible than using the host's initramfs image, because modules and binaries may be added or removed via dracut command options. So add an example in the document, in case that there are some situations where host's initramfs couldn't be used. Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney