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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-05-10 23:36:55 +0200
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-06-09 03:52:38 +0200
commit90040c9e3015054db7efa0101afdd446d1167fe8 (patch)
tree920cd620302375d11e8ecf0d1c270a821c2d97b5 /Documentation/admin-guide
parentsrcu: Use rnp->lock wrappers to replace explicit memory barriers (diff)
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rcu: Remove *_SLOW_* Kconfig options
The RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP, and RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY Kconfig options are only useful for torture testing, and there are the rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay, rcutree.gp_init_delay, and rcutree.gp_preinit_delay kernel boot parameters that rcutorture can use instead. The effect of these parameters is to artificially slow down grace period initialization and cleanup in order to make some types of race conditions happen more often. This commit therefore simplifies Tree RCU a bit by removing the Kconfig options and adding the corresponding kernel parameters to rcutorture's .boot files instead. However, this commit also leaves out the kernel parameters for TREE02, TREE04, and TREE07 in order to have about the same number of tests slowed as not slowed. TREE01, TREE03, TREE05, and TREE06 are slowed, and the rest are not slowed. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt10
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 6671f9b60a86..f85bfe02f052 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3229,21 +3229,17 @@
rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
- RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
- when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
+ RCU grace-period cleanup.
rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
- RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
- effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
- is set.
+ RCU grace-period initialization.
rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
- the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
- when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
+ the rcu_node combining tree.
rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining