rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period scans

Grace-period scans of the rcu_node combining tree normally
proceed quite quickly, so that it is very difficult to reproduce
races against them.  This commit therefore allows grace-period
pre-initialization and cleanup to be artificially slowed down,
increasing race-reproduction probability.  A pair of pairs of new
Kconfig parameters are provided, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT to
enable the slowing down of propagating CPU-hotplug changes up the
combining tree along with RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY to
specify the delay in jiffies, and RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
to enable the slowing down of the end-of-grace-period cleanup scan
along with RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY to specify the delay
in jiffies.  Boot-time parameters named rcutree.gp_preinit_delay and
rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay allow these delays to be specified at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 61ab1628a057..10a4fb80c033 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2992,11 +2992,23 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
 			process in one batch.
 
+	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.
+
 	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.
+			effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
+			is set.
+
+	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.
 
 	rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
 			Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each