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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2020-04-01 19:57:52 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2020-05-07 10:15:28 -0700
commit55b2dcf58700041d6f0b037a98619222c825f004 (patch)
treeda9dcfd0c5feda27e39ddedcdb3b8c514ff4936c /kernel/rcu
parentdf5916845dd6ee34ce40aaad5e7b61058720419c (diff)
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rcu: Allow rcutorture to starve grace-period kthread
This commit provides an rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread module parameter to allow rcutorture to starve the grace-period kthread. This allows testing the code that detects such starvation. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/rcu.h2
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c18
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree.c27
3 files changed, 44 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
index 00ddc92c5774..cdbc5f98f584 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
@@ -454,6 +454,7 @@ void do_trace_rcu_torture_read(const char *rcutorturename,
unsigned long secs,
unsigned long c_old,
unsigned long c);
+void rcu_gp_set_torture_wait(int duration);
#else
static inline void rcutorture_get_gp_data(enum rcutorture_type test_type,
int *flags, unsigned long *gp_seq)
@@ -471,6 +472,7 @@ void do_trace_rcu_torture_read(const char *rcutorturename,
#define do_trace_rcu_torture_read(rcutorturename, rhp, secs, c_old, c) \
do { } while (0)
#endif
+static inline void rcu_gp_set_torture_wait(int duration) { }
#endif
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST) || IS_MODULE(CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index 60dc36893aad..3d47dca4d61c 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ torture_param(int, stall_cpu_holdoff, 10,
"Time to wait before starting stall (s).");
torture_param(int, stall_cpu_irqsoff, 0, "Disable interrupts while stalling.");
torture_param(int, stall_cpu_block, 0, "Sleep while stalling.");
+torture_param(int, stall_gp_kthread, 0,
+ "Grace-period kthread stall duration (s).");
torture_param(int, stat_interval, 60,
"Number of seconds between stats printk()s");
torture_param(int, stutter, 5, "Number of seconds to run/halt test");
@@ -1623,7 +1625,17 @@ static int rcu_torture_stall(void *args)
schedule_timeout_interruptible(stall_cpu_holdoff * HZ);
VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("rcu_torture_stall end holdoff");
}
- if (!kthread_should_stop()) {
+ if (!kthread_should_stop() && stall_gp_kthread > 0) {
+ VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("rcu_torture_stall begin GP stall");
+ rcu_gp_set_torture_wait(stall_gp_kthread * HZ);
+ for (idx = 0; idx < stall_gp_kthread + 2; idx++) {
+ if (kthread_should_stop())
+ break;
+ schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ);
+ }
+ }
+ if (!kthread_should_stop() && stall_cpu > 0) {
+ VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("rcu_torture_stall begin CPU stall");
stop_at = ktime_get_seconds() + stall_cpu;
/* RCU CPU stall is expected behavior in following code. */
idx = cur_ops->readlock();
@@ -1642,8 +1654,8 @@ static int rcu_torture_stall(void *args)
else if (!stall_cpu_block)
preempt_enable();
cur_ops->readunlock(idx);
- pr_alert("rcu_torture_stall end.\n");
}
+ pr_alert("rcu_torture_stall end.\n");
torture_shutdown_absorb("rcu_torture_stall");
while (!kthread_should_stop())
schedule_timeout_interruptible(10 * HZ);
@@ -1653,7 +1665,7 @@ static int rcu_torture_stall(void *args)
/* Spawn CPU-stall kthread, if stall_cpu specified. */
static int __init rcu_torture_stall_init(void)
{
- if (stall_cpu <= 0)
+ if (stall_cpu <= 0 && stall_gp_kthread <= 0)
return 0;
return torture_create_kthread(rcu_torture_stall, NULL, stall_task);
}
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 156ac8d0418b..be7dde8807d0 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1486,6 +1486,31 @@ static void rcu_gp_slow(int delay)
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(delay);
}
+static unsigned long sleep_duration;
+
+/* Allow rcutorture to stall the grace-period kthread. */
+void rcu_gp_set_torture_wait(int duration)
+{
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST) && duration > 0)
+ WRITE_ONCE(sleep_duration, duration);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_gp_set_torture_wait);
+
+/* Actually implement the aforementioned wait. */
+static void rcu_gp_torture_wait(void)
+{
+ unsigned long duration;
+
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST))
+ return;
+ duration = xchg(&sleep_duration, 0UL);
+ if (duration > 0) {
+ pr_alert("%s: Waiting %lu jiffies\n", __func__, duration);
+ schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(duration);
+ pr_alert("%s: Wait complete\n", __func__);
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Initialize a new grace period. Return false if no grace period required.
*/
@@ -1686,6 +1711,7 @@ static void rcu_gp_fqs_loop(void)
rcu_state.gp_state = RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS;
ret = swait_event_idle_timeout_exclusive(
rcu_state.gp_wq, rcu_gp_fqs_check_wake(&gf), j);
+ rcu_gp_torture_wait();
rcu_state.gp_state = RCU_GP_DOING_FQS;
/* Locking provides needed memory barriers. */
/* If grace period done, leave loop. */
@@ -1834,6 +1860,7 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_gp_kthread(void *unused)
swait_event_idle_exclusive(rcu_state.gp_wq,
READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_flags) &
RCU_GP_FLAG_INIT);
+ rcu_gp_torture_wait();
rcu_state.gp_state = RCU_GP_DONE_GPS;
/* Locking provides needed memory barrier. */
if (rcu_gp_init())