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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2009-06-25 18:08:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-07-03 10:02:29 +0200 |
| commit | 240ebbf81f149b11a31e060ebe5ee51a3c775360 (patch) | |
| tree | d8aa6601bd789991588e467bf734d40df36e1317 /Documentation/RCU/torture.txt | |
| parent | rcu: Add synchronize_sched_expedited() torture tests (diff) | |
| download | linux-240ebbf81f149b11a31e060ebe5ee51a3c775360.tar.xz linux-240ebbf81f149b11a31e060ebe5ee51a3c775360.zip | |
rcu: Add synchronize_sched_expedited() rcutorture doc + updates
This patch updates the rcutorture documentation to include
updated output format. It also brings the RCU documentation up
to date.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com
Cc: zbr@ioremap.net
Cc: jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: jengelh@medozas.de
Cc: r000n@r000n.net
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
LKML-Reference: <12459460983193-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/torture.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/torture.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt index a342b6e1cc10..9dba3bb90e60 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt @@ -76,8 +76,10 @@ torture_type The type of RCU to test: "rcu" for the rcu_read_lock() API, "rcu_sync" for rcu_read_lock() with synchronous reclamation, "rcu_bh" for the rcu_read_lock_bh() API, "rcu_bh_sync" for rcu_read_lock_bh() with synchronous reclamation, "srcu" for - the "srcu_read_lock()" API, and "sched" for the use of - preempt_disable() together with synchronize_sched(). + the "srcu_read_lock()" API, "sched" for the use of + preempt_disable() together with synchronize_sched(), + and "sched_expedited" for the use of preempt_disable() + with synchronize_sched_expedited(). verbose Enable debug printk()s. Default is disabled. @@ -162,6 +164,23 @@ of the "old" and "current" counters for the corresponding CPU. The "idx" value maps the "old" and "current" values to the underlying array, and is useful for debugging. +Similarly, sched_expedited RCU provides the following: + + sched_expedited-torture: rtc: d0000000016c1880 ver: 1090796 tfle: 0 rta: 1090796 rtaf: 0 rtf: 1090787 rtmbe: 0 nt: 27713319 + sched_expedited-torture: Reader Pipe: 12660320201 95875 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 + sched_expedited-torture: Reader Batch: 12660424885 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 + sched_expedited-torture: Free-Block Circulation: 1090795 1090795 1090794 1090793 1090792 1090791 1090790 1090789 1090788 1090787 0 + state: -1 / 0:0 3:0 4:0 + +As before, the first four lines are similar to those for RCU. +The last line shows the task-migration state. The first number is +-1 if synchronize_sched_expedited() is idle, -2 if in the process of +posting wakeups to the migration kthreads, and N when waiting on CPU N. +Each of the colon-separated fields following the "/" is a CPU:state pair. +Valid states are "0" for idle, "1" for waiting for quiescent state, +"2" for passed through quiescent state, and "3" when a race with a +CPU-hotplug event forces use of the synchronize_sched() primitive. + USAGE |