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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-01-22 18:24:08 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-03-11 13:22:38 -0700
commit37745d281069682d901f00c0121949a7d224195f (patch)
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rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period initialization
Grace-period initialization normally proceeds quite quickly, so that it is very difficult to reproduce races against grace-period initialization. This commit therefore allows grace-period initialization to be artificially slowed down, increasing race-reproduction probability. A pair of new Kconfig parameters are provided, CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT to enable the slowdowns, and CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY to specify the number of jiffies of slowdown to apply. A boot-time parameter named rcutree.gp_init_delay allows boot-time delay to be specified. By default, no delay will be applied even if CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT is set. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index c5cefb3..feee8da 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1257,6 +1257,30 @@ config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
after being manually enabled via /proc.
+config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
+ bool "Slow down RCU grace-period initialization to expose races"
+ depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
+ help
+ This option makes grace-period initialization block for a
+ few jiffies between initializing each pair of consecutive
+ rcu_node structures. This helps to expose races involving
+ grace-period initialization, in other words, it makes your
+ kernel less stable. It can also greatly increase grace-period
+ latency, especially on systems with large numbers of CPUs.
+ This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in almost no
+ other circumstance.
+
+ Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
+ Say N if you want a sane system.
+
+config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY
+ int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period initialization"
+ range 0 5
+ default 0
+ help
+ This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
+ each rcu_node structure initialization.
+
config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON
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