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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> | 2012-01-17 14:36:51 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-02-21 09:03:50 -0800 |
| commit | 9b9ec9b90ef481e182927989963274dc2697f9a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 977b0fc115b279c25de3200a6bd4d67f1eff83c8 /Documentation/RCU | |
| parent | a858af2875fb291d0f4b0a4419fefbf03c2379c0 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-9b9ec9b90ef481e182927989963274dc2697f9a6.tar.gz lwn-9b9ec9b90ef481e182927989963274dc2697f9a6.zip | |
rcutorture: Permit holding off CPU-hotplug operations during boot
When rcutorture is started automatically at boot time, it might well
also start CPU-hotplug operations at that time, which might not be
desirable. This commit therefore adds an rcutorture parameter that
allows CPU-hotplug operations to be held off for the specified number
of seconds after the start of boot.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/torture.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt index d67068d0d2b9..01a809b1dbc6 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt @@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ onoff_interval CPU-hotplug operations regardless of what value is specified for onoff_interval. +onoff_holdoff The number of seconds to wait until starting CPU-hotplug + operations. This would normally only be used when + rcutorture was built into the kernel and started + automatically at boot time, in which case it is useful + in order to avoid confusing boot-time code with CPUs + coming and going. + shuffle_interval The number of seconds to keep the test threads affinitied to a particular subset of the CPUs, defaults to 3 seconds. @@ -277,5 +284,7 @@ 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. The "rmmod" command forces a "SUCCESS" or -"FAILURE" indication to be printk()ed. +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. |