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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/torture.rst b/Documentation/RCU/torture.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a90147713062 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.rst @@ -0,0 +1,293 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +========================== +RCU Torture Test Operation +========================== + + +CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST +======================= + +The CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST config option is available for all RCU +implementations. It creates an rcutorture kernel module that can +be loaded to run a torture test. The test periodically outputs +status messages via printk(), which can be examined via the dmesg +command (perhaps grepping for "torture"). The test is started +when the module is loaded, and stops when the module is unloaded. + +Module parameters are prefixed by "rcutorture." in +Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt. + +Output +====== + +The statistics output is as follows:: + + rcu-torture:--- Start of test: nreaders=16 nfakewriters=4 stat_interval=30 verbose=0 test_no_idle_hz=1 shuffle_interval=3 stutter=5 irqreader=1 fqs_duration=0 fqs_holdoff=0 fqs_stutter=3 test_boost=1/0 test_boost_interval=7 test_boost_duration=4 + rcu-torture: rtc: (null) ver: 155441 tfle: 0 rta: 155441 rtaf: 8884 rtf: 155440 rtmbe: 0 rtbe: 0 rtbke: 0 rtbre: 0 rtbf: 0 rtb: 0 nt: 3055767 + rcu-torture: Reader Pipe: 727860534 34213 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 + rcu-torture: Reader Batch: 727877838 17003 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 + rcu-torture: Free-Block Circulation: 155440 155440 155440 155440 155440 155440 155440 155440 155440 155440 0 + rcu-torture:--- End of test: SUCCESS: nreaders=16 nfakewriters=4 stat_interval=30 verbose=0 test_no_idle_hz=1 shuffle_interval=3 stutter=5 irqreader=1 fqs_duration=0 fqs_holdoff=0 fqs_stutter=3 test_boost=1/0 test_boost_interval=7 test_boost_duration=4 + +The command "dmesg | grep torture:" will extract this information on +most systems. On more esoteric configurations, it may be necessary to +use other commands to access the output of the printk()s used by +the RCU torture test. The printk()s use KERN_ALERT, so they should +be evident. ;-) + +The first and last lines show the rcutorture module parameters, and the +last line shows either "SUCCESS" or "FAILURE", based on rcutorture's +automatic determination as to whether RCU operated correctly. + +The entries are as follows: + +* "rtc": The hexadecimal address of the structure currently visible + to readers. + +* "ver": The number of times since boot that the RCU writer task + has changed the structure visible to readers. + +* "tfle": If non-zero, indicates that the "torture freelist" + containing structures to be placed into the "rtc" area is empty. + This condition is important, since it can fool you into thinking + that RCU is working when it is not. :-/ + +* "rta": Number of structures allocated from the torture freelist. + +* "rtaf": Number of allocations from the torture freelist that have + failed due to the list being empty. It is not unusual for this + to be non-zero, but it is bad for it to be a large fraction of + the value indicated by "rta". + +* "rtf": Number of frees into the torture freelist. + +* "rtmbe": A non-zero value indicates that rcutorture believes that + rcu_assign_pointer() and rcu_dereference() are not working + correctly. This value should be zero. + +* "rtbe": A non-zero value indicates that one of the rcu_barrier() + family of functions is not working correctly. + +* "rtbke": rcutorture was unable to create the real-time kthreads + used to force RCU priority inversion. This value should be zero. + +* "rtbre": Although rcutorture successfully created the kthreads + used to force RCU priority inversion, it was unable to set them + to the real-time priority level of 1. This value should be zero. + +* "rtbf": The number of times that RCU priority boosting failed + to resolve RCU priority inversion. + +* "rtb": The number of times that rcutorture attempted to force + an RCU priority inversion condition. If you are testing RCU + priority boosting via the "test_boost" module parameter, this + value should be non-zero. + +* "nt": The number of times rcutorture ran RCU read-side code from + within a timer handler. This value should be non-zero only + if you specified the "irqreader" module parameter. + +* "Reader Pipe": Histogram of "ages" of structures seen by readers. + If any entries past the first two are non-zero, RCU is broken. + And rcutorture prints the error flag string "!!!" to make sure + you notice. The age of a newly allocated structure is zero, + it becomes one when removed from reader visibility, and is + incremented once per grace period subsequently -- and is freed + after passing through (RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN-2) grace periods. + + The output displayed above was taken from a correctly working + RCU. If you want to see what it looks like when broken, break + it yourself. ;-) + +* "Reader Batch": Another histogram of "ages" of structures seen + by readers, but in terms of counter flips (or batches) rather + than in terms of grace periods. The legal number of non-zero + entries is again two. The reason for this separate view is that + it is sometimes easier to get the third entry to show up in the + "Reader Batch" list than in the "Reader Pipe" list. + +* "Free-Block Circulation": Shows the number of torture structures + that have reached a given point in the pipeline. The first element + should closely correspond to the number of structures allocated, + the second to the number that have been removed from reader view, + and all but the last remaining to the corresponding number of + passes through a grace period. The last entry should be zero, + as it is only incremented if a torture structure's counter + somehow gets incremented farther than it should. + +Different implementations of RCU can provide implementation-specific +additional information. For example, Tree SRCU provides the following +additional line:: + + srcud-torture: Tree SRCU per-CPU(idx=0): 0(35,-21) 1(-4,24) 2(1,1) 3(-26,20) 4(28,-47) 5(-9,4) 6(-10,14) 7(-14,11) T(1,6) + +This line shows the per-CPU counter state, in this case for Tree SRCU +using a dynamically allocated srcu_struct (hence "srcud-" rather than +"srcu-"). The numbers in parentheses are the values 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. The final "T" entry contains the totals of the counters. + +Usage on Specific Kernel Builds +=============================== + +It is sometimes desirable to torture RCU on a specific kernel build, +for example, when preparing to put that kernel build into production. +In that case, the kernel should be built with CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST=m +so that the test can be started using modprobe and terminated using rmmod. + +For example, the following script may be used to torture RCU:: + + #!/bin/sh + + modprobe rcutorture + 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", +"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. + + +Usage on Mainline Kernels +========================= + +When using rcutorture to test changes to RCU itself, it is often +necessary to build a number of kernels in order to test that change +across a broad range of combinations of the relevant Kconfig options +and of the relevant kernel boot parameters. In this situation, use +of modprobe and rmmod can be quite time-consuming and error-prone. + +Therefore, the tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh +script is available for mainline testing for x86, arm64, and +powerpc. By default, it will run the series of tests specified by +tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/CFLIST, with each test +running for 30 minutes within a guest OS using a minimal userspace +supplied by an automatically generated initrd. After the tests are +complete, the resulting build products and console output are analyzed +for errors and the results of the runs are summarized. + +On larger systems, rcutorture testing can be accelerated by passing the +--cpus argument to kvm.sh. For example, on a 64-CPU system, "--cpus 43" +would use up to 43 CPUs to run tests concurrently, which as of v5.4 would +complete all the scenarios in two batches, reducing the time to complete +from about eight hours to about one hour (not counting the time to build +the sixteen kernels). The "--dryrun sched" argument will not run tests, +but rather tell you how the tests would be scheduled into batches. This +can be useful when working out how many CPUs to specify in the --cpus +argument. + +Not all changes require that all scenarios be run. For example, a change +to Tree SRCU might run only the SRCU-N and SRCU-P scenarios using the +--configs argument to kvm.sh as follows: "--configs 'SRCU-N SRCU-P'". +Large systems can run multiple copies of of the full set of scenarios, +for example, a system with 448 hardware threads can run five instances +of the full set concurrently. To make this happen:: + + kvm.sh --cpus 448 --configs '5*CFLIST' + +Alternatively, such a system can run 56 concurrent instances of a single +eight-CPU scenario:: + + kvm.sh --cpus 448 --configs '56*TREE04' + +Or 28 concurrent instances of each of two eight-CPU scenarios:: + + kvm.sh --cpus 448 --configs '28*TREE03 28*TREE04' + +Of course, each concurrent instance will use memory, which can be +limited using the --memory argument, which defaults to 512M. Small +values for memory may require disabling the callback-flooding tests +using the --bootargs parameter discussed below. + +Sometimes additional debugging is useful, and in such cases the --kconfig +parameter to kvm.sh may be used, for example, ``--kconfig 'CONFIG_KASAN=y'``. + +Kernel boot arguments can also be supplied, for example, to control +rcutorture's module parameters. For example, to test a change to RCU's +CPU stall-warning code, use "--bootargs 'rcutorture.stall_cpu=30'". +This will of course result in the scripting reporting a failure, namely +the resuling RCU CPU stall warning. As noted above, reducing memory may +require disabling rcutorture's callback-flooding tests:: + + kvm.sh --cpus 448 --configs '56*TREE04' --memory 128M \ + --bootargs 'rcutorture.fwd_progress=0' + +Sometimes all that is needed is a full set of kernel builds. This is +what the --buildonly argument does. + +Finally, the --trust-make argument allows each kernel build to reuse what +it can from the previous kernel build. + +There are additional more arcane arguments that are documented in the +source code of the kvm.sh script. + +If a run contains failures, the number of buildtime and runtime failures +is listed at the end of the kvm.sh output, which you really should redirect +to a file. The build products and console output of each run is kept in +tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/res in timestamped directories. A +given directory can be supplied to kvm-find-errors.sh in order to have +it cycle you through summaries of errors and full error logs. For example:: + + tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-find-errors.sh \ + tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/res/2020.01.20-15.54.23 + +However, it is often more convenient to access the files directly. +Files pertaining to all scenarios in a run reside in the top-level +directory (2020.01.20-15.54.23 in the example above), while per-scenario +files reside in a subdirectory named after the scenario (for example, +"TREE04"). If a given scenario ran more than once (as in "--configs +'56*TREE04'" above), the directories corresponding to the second and +subsequent runs of that scenario include a sequence number, for example, +"TREE04.2", "TREE04.3", and so on. + +The most frequently used file in the top-level directory is testid.txt. +If the test ran in a git repository, then this file contains the commit +that was tested and any uncommitted changes in diff format. + +The most frequently used files in each per-scenario-run directory are: + +.config: + This file contains the Kconfig options. + +Make.out: + This contains build output for a specific scenario. + +console.log: + This contains the console output for a specific scenario. + This file may be examined once the kernel has booted, but + it might not exist if the build failed. + +vmlinux: + This contains the kernel, which can be useful with tools like + objdump and gdb. + +A number of additional files are available, but are less frequently used. +Many are intended for debugging of rcutorture itself or of its scripting. + +As of v5.4, a successful run with the default set of scenarios produces +the following summary at the end of the run on a 12-CPU system:: + + SRCU-N ------- 804233 GPs (148.932/s) [srcu: g10008272 f0x0 ] + SRCU-P ------- 202320 GPs (37.4667/s) [srcud: g1809476 f0x0 ] + SRCU-t ------- 1122086 GPs (207.794/s) [srcu: g0 f0x0 ] + SRCU-u ------- 1111285 GPs (205.794/s) [srcud: g1 f0x0 ] + TASKS01 ------- 19666 GPs (3.64185/s) [tasks: g0 f0x0 ] + TASKS02 ------- 20541 GPs (3.80389/s) [tasks: g0 f0x0 ] + TASKS03 ------- 19416 GPs (3.59556/s) [tasks: g0 f0x0 ] + TINY01 ------- 836134 GPs (154.84/s) [rcu: g0 f0x0 ] n_max_cbs: 34198 + TINY02 ------- 850371 GPs (157.476/s) [rcu: g0 f0x0 ] n_max_cbs: 2631 + TREE01 ------- 162625 GPs (30.1157/s) [rcu: g1124169 f0x0 ] + TREE02 ------- 333003 GPs (61.6672/s) [rcu: g2647753 f0x0 ] n_max_cbs: 35844 + TREE03 ------- 306623 GPs (56.782/s) [rcu: g2975325 f0x0 ] n_max_cbs: 1496497 + CPU count limited from 16 to 12 + TREE04 ------- 246149 GPs (45.5831/s) [rcu: g1695737 f0x0 ] n_max_cbs: 434961 + TREE05 ------- 314603 GPs (58.2598/s) [rcu: g2257741 f0x2 ] n_max_cbs: 193997 + TREE07 ------- 167347 GPs (30.9902/s) [rcu: g1079021 f0x0 ] n_max_cbs: 478732 + CPU count limited from 16 to 12 + TREE09 ------- 752238 GPs (139.303/s) [rcu: g13075057 f0x0 ] n_max_cbs: 99011 |