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2017-12-11torture: Eliminate torture_runnable and perf_runnablePaul E. McKenney1-5/+1
The purpose of torture_runnable is to allow rcutorture and locktorture to be started and stopped via sysfs when they are built into the kernel (as in not compiled as loadable modules). However, the 0444 permissions for both instances of torture_runnable prevent this use case from ever being put into practice. Given that there have been no complaints about this deficiency, it is reasonable to conclude that no one actually makes use of this sysfs capability. The perf_runnable module parameter for rcuperf is in the same situation. This commit therefore removes both torture_runnable instances as well as perf_runnable. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-07-24rcu: Remove CONFIG_TASKS_RCU ifdef from rcuperf.cPaul E. McKenney1-16/+1
The synchronize_rcu_tasks() and call_rcu_tasks() APIs are now available regardless of kernel configuration, so this commit removes the CONFIG_TASKS_RCU ifdef from rcuperf.c. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcu: Move expediting-related access/control out of rcupdate.hPaul E. McKenney1-0/+2
The rcu_gp_is_normal(), rcu_gp_is_expedited(), rcu_expedite_gp(), and rcu_unexpedite_gp() functions are intended only for use within the RCU implementation itself -- the sysfs access is what should be used outside of RCU. This commit therefore moves the declarations for these functions to kernel/rcu/rcu.h, and also includes this file into kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c and kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c. This also has the beneficial effect of shrinking rcupdate.c a bit. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcuperf: Add writer_holdoff boot parameterPaul E. McKenney1-0/+3
This commit adds a writer_holdoff boot parameter to rcuperf, which is intended to be used to test Tree SRCU's auto-expediting. This boot parameter is in microseconds, and defaults to zero (that is, disabled). Set it to a bit larger than srcutree.exp_holdoff, keeping the nanosecond/microsecond conversion, to force Tree SRCU to auto-expedite more aggressively. This commit also adds documentation for this parameter, and fixes some alphabetization while in the neighborhood. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcuperf: Set more user-friendly defaultsPaul E. McKenney1-2/+3
Common-case use of rcuperf must set rcuperf.nreaders=0 and if not built as a module, rcuperf.shutdown. This commit therefore sets the default for rcuperf.nreaders to zero and sets the default for rcuperf.shutdown to zero if rcuperf is built as a module and to one otherwise. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcuperf: Add test for dynamically initialized srcu_structPaul E. McKenney1-1/+30
This commit adds a perf_type of "srcud", which species that rcuperf test SRCU on a dynamically initialized srcu_struct. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcuperf: Add ability to performance-test call_rcu() and friendsPaul E. McKenney1-5/+64
This commit upgrades rcuperf so that it can do performance testing on asynchronous grace-period primitives such as call_srcu(). There is a new rcuperf.gp_async module parameter that specifies this new behavior, with the pre-existing rcuperf.gp_exp testing expedited grace periods such as synchronize_rcu_expedited, and with the default being to test synchronous non-expedited grace periods such as synchronize_rcu(). There is also a new rcuperf.gp_async_max module parameter that specifies the maximum number of outstanding callbacks per writer kthread, defaulting to 1,000. When this limit is exceeded, the writer thread invokes the appropriate flavor of rcu_barrier() to wait for callbacks to drain. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Removed the redundant initialization noted by Arnd Bergmann. ]
2017-06-08rcuperf: Defer expedited/normal check to end of testPaul E. McKenney1-10/+9
Current rcuperf startup checks to see if the user asked to measure only expedited grace periods, yet constrained all grace periods to be normal, or if the user asked to measure only normal grace periods, yet constrained all grace periods to be expedited. Useless tests of this sort are aborted. Unfortunately, making RCU work through the mid-boot dead zone [1] puts RCU into expedited-only mode during that zone. Which happens to also be the exact time that rcuperf carries out the aforementioned check. So if the user asks rcuperf to measure only normal grace periods (the default), rcuperf will now always complain and terminate the test. This commit therefore moves the checks to rcu_perf_cleanup(). This has the disadvantage of failing to abort useless tests, but avoids the need to create yet another kthread and the need to do fiddly checks involving the holdoff time. (Yes, another approach is to do the checks in a late-stage init function, but that would require some way to communicate badness to rcuperf's kthreads, and seems not worth the bother.) [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/716148/ Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-03-02sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <uapi/linux/sched/types.h>Ingo Molnar1-0/+1
We are going to move scheduler ABI details to <uapi/linux/sched/types.h>, which will be used from a number of .c files. Create empty placeholder header that maps to <linux/types.h>. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-08-22rcuperf: Consistently insert space between flag and messageSeongJae Park1-4/+3
A few rcuperf dmesg output messages have no space between the flag and the start of the message. In contrast, every other messages consistently supplies a single space. This difference makes rcuperf dmesg output hard to read and to mechanically parse. This commit therefore fixes this problem by modifying a pr_alert() call and PERFOUT_STRING() macro function to provide that single space. Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-06-14rcutorture: Fix error return code in rcu_perf_init()Wei Yongjun1-1/+3
Fix to return a negative error code -ENOMEM from kcalloc() error handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-06-14rcuperf: Don't treat gp_exp mis-setting as a WARNBoqun Feng1-3/+11
0day found a boot warning triggered in rcu_perf_writer() on !SMP kernel: WARN_ON(rcu_gp_is_normal() && gp_exp); , the root cause of which is trying to measure expedited grace periods(by setting gp_exp to true by default) when all the grace periods are normal(TINY RCU only has normal grace periods). However, such a mis-setting would only result in failing to measure the performance for a specific kind of grace periods, therefore using a WARN_ON to check this is a little overkilling. We could handle this inside rcuperf module via some error messages to tell users about the mis-settings. Therefore this patch removes the WARN_ON in rcu_perf_writer() and handles those checkings in rcu_perf_init() with plain if() code. Moreover, this patch changes the default value of gp_exp to 1) align with rcutorture tests and 2) make the default setting work for all RCU implementations by default. Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Fixes: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57411b10.mFvG0+AgcrMXGtcj%fengguang.wu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-06-14torture: Simplify code, eliminate RCU_PERF_TEST_RUNNABLEPaul E. McKenney1-6/+1
This commit applies the infamous IS_ENABLED() macro to eliminate a #ifdef. It also eliminates the RCU_PERF_TEST_RUNNABLE Kconfig option in favor of the already-existing rcuperf.perf_runnable kernel boot parameter. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31rcuperf: Do not wake up shutdown wait queue if "shutdown" is false.Artem Savkov1-2/+4
After finishing its tests rcuperf tries to wake up shutdown_wq even if "shutdown" param is set to false, resulting in a wake_up() call on an unitialized wait_queue_head_t which leads to "BUG: spinlock bad magic" and "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference". Fix by checking "shutdown" param before waking up the queue. Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com>
2016-03-31rcutorture: Avoid RCU CPU stall warning and RT throttlingPaul E. McKenney1-0/+4
Running rcuperf can result in RCU CPU stall warnings and RT throttling. These occur because on of the real-time writer processes does ftrace_dump() while still running at real-time priority. This commit therefore prevents these problems by setting the writer thread back to SCHED_NORMAL (AKA SCHED_OTHER) before doing ftrace_dump(). In addition, this commit adds a small fixed delay before dumping ftrace buffer in order to decrease the probability that this dumping will interfere with other writers' grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31rcutorture: Add rcuperf holdoff boot parameter to reduce interferencePaul E. McKenney1-0/+5
Boot-time activity can legitimately grab CPUs for extended time periods, so the commit adds a boot parameter to delay the start of the performance test until boot has completed. Defaults to 10 seconds. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31rcutorture: Make rcuperf collect expedited event-trace dataPaul E. McKenney1-0/+1
This commit enables ftrace in the rcuperf TREE kernel build and adds an ftrace_dump() at the end of rcuperf processing. This data will be used to measure the actual durations of the expedited grace periods without the added delays inherent in the kernel-module measurements. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31rcutorture: Set rcuperf writer kthreads to real-time priorityPaul E. McKenney1-0/+3
This commit forces more deterministic update-side behavior by setting rcuperf's rcu_perf_writer() kthreads to real-time priority. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31rcutorture: Bind rcuperf reader/writer kthreads to CPUsPaul E. McKenney1-1/+4
This commit forces more deterministic behavior by binding rcuperf's rcu_perf_reader() and rcu_perf_writer() kthreads to their respective CPUs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31rcutorture: Add RCU grace-period performance testsPaul E. McKenney1-0/+637
This commit adds a new rcuperf module that carries out simple performance tests of RCU grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>