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author | Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com> | 2012-06-08 12:58:00 +0200 |
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committer | Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com> | 2012-06-08 12:58:00 +0200 |
commit | 6792a3f47a2e42d7164292bf7f1a55cfc4c91652 (patch) | |
tree | b90c002bfbbeaec92f5d8a2383dcabf6524016f7 /Documentation/RCU/torture.txt | |
parent | fe2895d3d55146cac65b273c0f83e2c7e543cd0e (diff) | |
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fedora kernel: b920e9b748c595f970bf80ede7832d39f8d567dav3.4.1-2
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt index d67068d0d2b..375d3fb7143 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt @@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ onoff_interval CPU-hotplug operations regardless of what value is specified for onoff_interval. +onoff_holdoff The number of seconds to wait until starting CPU-hotplug + operations. This would normally only be used when + rcutorture was built into the kernel and started + automatically at boot time, in which case it is useful + in order to avoid confusing boot-time code with CPUs + coming and going. + shuffle_interval The number of seconds to keep the test threads affinitied to a particular subset of the CPUs, defaults to 3 seconds. @@ -79,6 +86,24 @@ shutdown_secs The number of seconds to run the test before terminating zero, which disables test termination and system shutdown. This capability is useful for automated testing. +stall_cpu The number of seconds that a CPU should be stalled while + within both an rcu_read_lock() and a preempt_disable(). + This stall happens only once per rcutorture run. + If you need multiple stalls, use modprobe and rmmod to + repeatedly run rcutorture. The default for stall_cpu + is zero, which prevents rcutorture from stalling a CPU. + + Note that attempts to rmmod rcutorture while the stall + is ongoing will hang, so be careful what value you + choose for this module parameter! In addition, too-large + values for stall_cpu might well induce failures and + warnings in other parts of the kernel. You have been + warned! + +stall_cpu_holdoff + The number of seconds to wait after rcutorture starts + before stalling a CPU. Defaults to 10 seconds. + stat_interval The number of seconds between output of torture statistics (via printk()). Regardless of the interval, statistics are printed when the module is unloaded. @@ -271,11 +296,13 @@ The following script may be used to torture RCU: #!/bin/sh modprobe rcutorture - sleep 100 + sleep 3600 rmmod rcutorture dmesg | grep torture: The output can be manually inspected for the error flag of "!!!". One could of course create a more elaborate script that automatically -checked for such errors. The "rmmod" command forces a "SUCCESS" or -"FAILURE" indication to be printk()ed. +checked for such errors. The "rmmod" command forces a "SUCCESS", +"FAILURE", or "RCU_HOTPLUG" indication to be printk()ed. The first +two are self-explanatory, while the last indicates that while there +were no RCU failures, CPU-hotplug problems were detected. |