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authorUladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>2025-02-27 16:16:11 +0300
committerBoqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>2025-03-05 05:44:29 +0300
commit8d67c1558a71475e638fee09e588e12834043069 (patch)
tree25e85df007e1f895767cf781090e1c1efff9b093
parent6ea9a1781c70a8be1fcdc49134fc1bf4baba8bca (diff)
downloadlinux-8d67c1558a71475e638fee09e588e12834043069.tar.xz
rcutorture: Allow a negative value for nfakewriters
Currently "nfakewriters" parameter can be set to any value but there is no possibility to adjust it automatically based on how many CPUs a system has where a test is run on. To address this, if the "nfakewriters" is set to negative it will be adjusted to num_online_cpus() during torture initialization. Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227131613.52683-1-urezki@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c22
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index d26fb1d33ed9..726c2d63ab66 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(torture_type, "Type of RCU to torture (rcu, srcu, ...)");
static int nrealnocbers;
static int nrealreaders;
+static int nrealfakewriters;
static struct task_struct *writer_task;
static struct task_struct **fakewriter_tasks;
static struct task_struct **reader_tasks;
@@ -1728,7 +1729,7 @@ rcu_torture_fakewriter(void *arg)
do {
torture_hrtimeout_jiffies(torture_random(&rand) % 10, &rand);
if (cur_ops->cb_barrier != NULL &&
- torture_random(&rand) % (nfakewriters * 8) == 0) {
+ torture_random(&rand) % (nrealfakewriters * 8) == 0) {
cur_ops->cb_barrier();
} else {
switch (synctype[torture_random(&rand) % nsynctypes]) {
@@ -2522,7 +2523,7 @@ rcu_torture_print_module_parms(struct rcu_torture_ops *cur_ops, const char *tag)
"nocbs_nthreads=%d nocbs_toggle=%d "
"test_nmis=%d "
"preempt_duration=%d preempt_interval=%d\n",
- torture_type, tag, nrealreaders, nfakewriters,
+ torture_type, tag, nrealreaders, nrealfakewriters,
stat_interval, verbose, test_no_idle_hz, shuffle_interval,
stutter, irqreader, fqs_duration, fqs_holdoff, fqs_stutter,
test_boost, cur_ops->can_boost,
@@ -3597,7 +3598,7 @@ rcu_torture_cleanup(void)
rcu_torture_reader_mbchk = NULL;
if (fakewriter_tasks) {
- for (i = 0; i < nfakewriters; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < nrealfakewriters; i++)
torture_stop_kthread(rcu_torture_fakewriter,
fakewriter_tasks[i]);
kfree(fakewriter_tasks);
@@ -3994,6 +3995,14 @@ rcu_torture_init(void)
rcu_torture_init_srcu_lockdep();
+ if (nfakewriters >= 0) {
+ nrealfakewriters = nfakewriters;
+ } else {
+ nrealfakewriters = num_online_cpus() - 2 - nfakewriters;
+ if (nrealfakewriters <= 0)
+ nrealfakewriters = 1;
+ }
+
if (nreaders >= 0) {
nrealreaders = nreaders;
} else {
@@ -4050,8 +4059,9 @@ rcu_torture_init(void)
writer_task);
if (torture_init_error(firsterr))
goto unwind;
- if (nfakewriters > 0) {
- fakewriter_tasks = kcalloc(nfakewriters,
+
+ if (nrealfakewriters > 0) {
+ fakewriter_tasks = kcalloc(nrealfakewriters,
sizeof(fakewriter_tasks[0]),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (fakewriter_tasks == NULL) {
@@ -4060,7 +4070,7 @@ rcu_torture_init(void)
goto unwind;
}
}
- for (i = 0; i < nfakewriters; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < nrealfakewriters; i++) {
firsterr = torture_create_kthread(rcu_torture_fakewriter,
NULL, fakewriter_tasks[i]);
if (torture_init_error(firsterr))