rcu: Add force_quiescent_state() testing to rcutorture

Add force_quiescent_state() testing to rcutorture, with a
separate thread that repeatedly invokes force_quiescent_state()
in bursts. This can greatly increase the probability of
encountering certain types of race conditions.

Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This commit is contained in:
Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-04 15:09:10 -08:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 46a1e34eda
commit bf66f18e79
5 changed files with 130 additions and 2 deletions
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@@ -61,6 +61,15 @@ long rcu_batches_completed(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_batches_completed);
/*
* Force a quiescent state for preemptible RCU.
*/
void rcu_force_quiescent_state(void)
{
force_quiescent_state(&rcu_preempt_state, 0);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_force_quiescent_state);
/*
* Record a preemptable-RCU quiescent state for the specified CPU. Note
* that this just means that the task currently running on the CPU is
@@ -712,6 +721,16 @@ long rcu_batches_completed(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_batches_completed);
/*
* Force a quiescent state for RCU, which, because there is no preemptible
* RCU, becomes the same as rcu-sched.
*/
void rcu_force_quiescent_state(void)
{
rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_force_quiescent_state);
/*
* Because preemptable RCU does not exist, we never have to check for
* CPUs being in quiescent states.