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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>2006-06-27 02:54:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-27 17:32:40 -0700
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[PATCH] rcutorture: catchup doc fixes for idle-hz tests
This just catches the RCU torture documentation up with the recent fixes that test RCU for architectures that turn of the scheduling-clock interrupt for idle CPUs and the addition of a SUCCESS/FAILURE indication, fixing up an obsolete comment as well. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
index e4c38152f7f7..d896685a9100 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
@@ -35,6 +35,15 @@ stat_interval The number of seconds between output of torture
be printed -only- when the module is unloaded, and this
is the default.
+shuffle_interval
+ The number of seconds to keep the test threads affinitied
+ to a particular subset of the CPUs. Used in conjunction
+ with test_no_idle_hz.
+
+test_no_idle_hz Whether or not to test the ability of RCU to operate in
+ a kernel that disables the scheduling-clock interrupt to
+ idle CPUs. Boolean parameter, "1" to test, "0" otherwise.
+
verbose Enable debug printk()s. Default is disabled.
@@ -119,4 +128,5 @@ The following script may be used to torture RCU:
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.
+checked for such errors. The "rmmod" command forces a "SUCCESS" or
+"FAILURE" indication to be printk()ed.