rcu: Add PROVE_RCU_DELAY to provoke difficult races

There have been some recent bugs that were triggered only when
preemptible RCU's __rcu_read_unlock() was preempted just after setting
->rcu_read_lock_nesting to INT_MIN, which is a low-probability event.
Therefore, reproducing those bugs (to say nothing of gaining confidence
in alleged fixes) was quite difficult.  This commit therefore creates
a new debug-only RCU kernel config option that forces a short delay
in __rcu_read_unlock() to increase the probability of those sorts of
bugs occurring.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 2403a63..dacbbe4 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -629,6 +629,20 @@ config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
 
 	 Say N if you are unsure.
 
+config PROVE_RCU_DELAY
+	bool "RCU debugging: preemptible RCU race provocation"
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT_RCU
+	default n
+	help
+	 There is a class of races that involve an unlikely preemption
+	 of __rcu_read_unlock() just after ->rcu_read_lock_nesting has
+	 been set to INT_MIN.  This feature inserts a delay at that
+	 point to increase the probability of these races.
+
+	 Say Y to increase probability of preemption of __rcu_read_unlock().
+
+	 Say N if you are unsure.
+
 config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
 	bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
 	default n