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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2024-11-13 15:00:16 -0800
committerBoqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>2025-02-05 07:14:39 -0800
commitb8726c5aa6e8e0f4e8abc27f0c81db9f294958dc (patch)
tree1425b64ff91b65a1bb8f03860747da951d382300 /kernel
parent623b52802bb0b33bee28716002249aae5d89c5ec (diff)
rcutorture: Add a test_boost_holdoff module parameter
This commit adds a test_boost_holdoff module parameter that tells the RCU priority-boosting tests to wait for the specified number of seconds past the start of the rcutorture test. This can be useful when rcutorture is built into the kernel (as opposed to being modprobed), especially on large systems where early start of RCU priority boosting can delay the boot sequence, which adds a full CPU's worth of load onto the system. This can in turn result in pointless stall warnings. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c19
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index d26fb1d33ed9..fbf1d7fcf61d 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ 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");
torture_param(int, test_boost, 1, "Test RCU prio boost: 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.");
torture_param(int, test_boost_duration, 4, "Duration of each boost test, seconds.");
+torture_param(int, test_boost_holdoff, 0, "Holdoff time from rcutorture start, seconds.");
torture_param(int, test_boost_interval, 7, "Interval between boost tests, seconds.");
torture_param(int, test_nmis, 0, "End-test NMI tests, 0 to disable.");
torture_param(bool, test_no_idle_hz, true, "Test support for tickless idle CPUs");
@@ -1148,8 +1149,19 @@ static int rcu_torture_boost(void *arg)
unsigned long gp_state;
unsigned long gp_state_time;
unsigned long oldstarttime;
+ unsigned long booststarttime = get_torture_init_jiffies() + test_boost_holdoff * HZ;
- VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("rcu_torture_boost started");
+ if (test_boost_holdoff <= 0 || time_after(jiffies, booststarttime)) {
+ VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("rcu_torture_boost started");
+ } else {
+ VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("rcu_torture_boost started holdoff period");
+ while (time_before(jiffies, booststarttime)) {
+ schedule_timeout_idle(HZ);
+ if (kthread_should_stop())
+ goto cleanup;
+ }
+ VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("rcu_torture_boost finished holdoff period");
+ }
/* Set real-time priority. */
sched_set_fifo_low(current);
@@ -1225,6 +1237,7 @@ checkwait: if (stutter_wait("rcu_torture_boost"))
sched_set_fifo_low(current);
} while (!torture_must_stop());
+cleanup:
/* Clean up and exit. */
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
torture_shutdown_absorb("rcu_torture_boost");
@@ -2512,7 +2525,7 @@ rcu_torture_print_module_parms(struct rcu_torture_ops *cur_ops, const char *tag)
"shuffle_interval=%d stutter=%d irqreader=%d "
"fqs_duration=%d fqs_holdoff=%d fqs_stutter=%d "
"test_boost=%d/%d test_boost_interval=%d "
- "test_boost_duration=%d shutdown_secs=%d "
+ "test_boost_duration=%d test_boost_holdoff=%d shutdown_secs=%d "
"stall_cpu=%d stall_cpu_holdoff=%d stall_cpu_irqsoff=%d "
"stall_cpu_block=%d stall_cpu_repeat=%d "
"n_barrier_cbs=%d "
@@ -2526,7 +2539,7 @@ rcu_torture_print_module_parms(struct rcu_torture_ops *cur_ops, const char *tag)
stat_interval, verbose, test_no_idle_hz, shuffle_interval,
stutter, irqreader, fqs_duration, fqs_holdoff, fqs_stutter,
test_boost, cur_ops->can_boost,
- test_boost_interval, test_boost_duration, shutdown_secs,
+ test_boost_interval, test_boost_duration, test_boost_holdoff, shutdown_secs,
stall_cpu, stall_cpu_holdoff, stall_cpu_irqsoff,
stall_cpu_block, stall_cpu_repeat,
n_barrier_cbs,