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Commit 7f993623 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney Committed by Frederic Weisbecker
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locktorture: Add call_rcu_chains module parameter


When running locktorture on large systems, there will normally be
enough RCU activity to ensure that there is a grace period in flight
at all times.  However, on smaller systems, RCU might well be idle the
majority of the time.  This situation can be inconvenient in cases where
the RCU CPU stall warning is part of the debugging process.

This commit therefore adds an call_rcu_chains module parameter to
locktorture, allowing the user to specify the desired number of
self-propagating call_rcu() chains.  For good measure, immediately
before invoking call_rcu(), the self-propagating RCU callback invokes
start_poll_synchronize_rcu() to force the immediate start of a grace
period, with the call_rcu() forcing another to start shortly thereafter.

Booting with locktorture.call_rcu_chains=2 increases the probability
of a stuck locking primitive resulting in an RCU CPU stall warning from
about 25% to nearly 100%.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
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