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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/rcutorture.c, branch v2.6.27.10</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>rcu: make rcutorture even more vicious: invoke RCU readers from irq handlers (timers)</title>
<updated>2008-06-26T07:24:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-25T19:24:52+00:00</published>
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This patch allows torturing RCU from irq handlers (timers, in this case).
A new module parameter irqreader enables such additional torturing,
and is enabled by default.  Variants of RCU that do not tolerate readers
being called from irq handlers (e.g., SRCU) ignore irqreader.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: josh@freedesktop.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dino@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@tv-sign.ru
Cc: bunk@kernel.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This patch allows torturing RCU from irq handlers (timers, in this case).
A new module parameter irqreader enables such additional torturing,
and is enabled by default.  Variants of RCU that do not tolerate readers
being called from irq handlers (e.g., SRCU) ignore irqreader.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: josh@freedesktop.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dino@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@tv-sign.ru
Cc: bunk@kernel.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<title>rcu: make quiescent rcutorture less power-hungry</title>
<updated>2008-06-24T11:36:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-22T21:02:55+00:00</published>
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This patch aligns the rcutorture wakeup times to align with all other
multiple-of-a-second wakeups to further decrease power consumption.

Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: josh@freedesktop.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dino@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@tv-sign.ru
Cc: bunk@kernel.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This patch aligns the rcutorture wakeup times to align with all other
multiple-of-a-second wakeups to further decrease power consumption.

Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: josh@freedesktop.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dino@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@tv-sign.ru
Cc: bunk@kernel.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu, rcutorture: make quiescent rcutorture less power-hungry</title>
<updated>2008-06-24T11:36:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-22T20:06:38+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: josh@freedesktop.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dino@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@tv-sign.ru
Cc: bunk@kernel.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: josh@freedesktop.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dino@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@tv-sign.ru
Cc: bunk@kernel.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: make rcutorture more vicious: reinstate boot-time testing</title>
<updated>2008-06-19T09:22:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-18T16:26:49+00:00</published>
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This patch re-institutes the ability to build rcutorture directly into
the Linux kernel.  The reason that this capability was removed was that
this could result in your kernel being pretty much useless, as rcutorture
would be running starting from early boot.  This problem has been avoided
by (1) making rcutorture run only three seconds of every six by default,
(2) adding a CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE that permits rcutorture
to be quiesced at boot time, and (3) adding a sysctl in /proc named
/proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable that permits rcutorture to be
quiesced and unquiesced when built into the kernel.

Please note that this /proc file is -not- available when rcutorture
is built as a module.  Please also note that to get the earlier
take-no-prisoners behavior, you must use the boot command line to set
rcutorture's "stutter" parameter to zero.

The rcutorture quiescing mechanism is currently quite crude: loops
in each rcutorture process that poll a global variable once per tick.
Suggestions for improvement are welcome.  The default action will
be to reduce the polling rate to a few times per second.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This patch re-institutes the ability to build rcutorture directly into
the Linux kernel.  The reason that this capability was removed was that
this could result in your kernel being pretty much useless, as rcutorture
would be running starting from early boot.  This problem has been avoided
by (1) making rcutorture run only three seconds of every six by default,
(2) adding a CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE that permits rcutorture
to be quiesced at boot time, and (3) adding a sysctl in /proc named
/proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable that permits rcutorture to be
quiesced and unquiesced when built into the kernel.

Please note that this /proc file is -not- available when rcutorture
is built as a module.  Please also note that to get the earlier
take-no-prisoners behavior, you must use the boot command line to set
rcutorture's "stutter" parameter to zero.

The rcutorture quiescing mechanism is currently quite crude: loops
in each rcutorture process that poll a global variable once per tick.
Suggestions for improvement are welcome.  The default action will
be to reduce the polling rate to a few times per second.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: make rcutorture more vicious: add stutter feature</title>
<updated>2008-06-18T13:06:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-18T12:21:44+00:00</published>
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This patch takes a step towards making rcutorture more brutal by allowing
the test to be automatically periodically paused, with the default being
to run the test for five seconds then pause for five seconds and repeat.
This behavior can be controlled using a new "stutter" module parameter, so
that "stutter=0" gives the old default behavior of running continuously.

Starting and stopping rcutorture more heavily stresses RCU's interaction
with the scheduler, as well as exercising more paths through the
grace-period detection code.

Note that the default to "shuffle_interval" has also been adjusted from
5 seconds to 3 seconds to provide varying overlap with the "stutter"
interval.

I am still unable to provoke the failures that Alexey has been seeing,
even with this patch, but will be doing a few additional things to beef
up rcutorture.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This patch takes a step towards making rcutorture more brutal by allowing
the test to be automatically periodically paused, with the default being
to run the test for five seconds then pause for five seconds and repeat.
This behavior can be controlled using a new "stutter" module parameter, so
that "stutter=0" gives the old default behavior of running continuously.

Starting and stopping rcutorture more heavily stresses RCU's interaction
with the scheduler, as well as exercising more paths through the
grace-period detection code.

Note that the default to "shuffle_interval" has also been adjusted from
5 seconds to 3 seconds to provide varying overlap with the "stutter"
interval.

I am still unable to provoke the failures that Alexey has been seeing,
even with this patch, but will be doing a few additional things to beef
up rcutorture.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcutorture: WARN_ON_ONCE(1) when detecting an error</title>
<updated>2008-06-18T08:09:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-18T08:09:48+00:00</published>
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this makes it easier for automated tests to pick up such failures.
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this makes it easier for automated tests to pick up such failures.
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<entry>
<title>rcu: add call_rcu_sched() and friends to rcutorture</title>
<updated>2008-05-19T08:01:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-12T19:21:05+00:00</published>
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Add entry to rcu_torture_ops allowing the correct barrier function to
be used upon exit from rcutorture.  Also add torture options for the
new call_rcu_sched() API.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Add entry to rcu_torture_ops allowing the correct barrier function to
be used upon exit from rcutorture.  Also add torture options for the
new call_rcu_sched() API.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: explicitly include required header files under kernel/</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T15:06:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert P. J. Day</name>
<email>rpjday@crashcourse.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-29T07:59:25+00:00</published>
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Following an experimental deletion of the unnecessary directive

 #include &lt;linux/slab.h&gt;

from the header file &lt;linux/percpu.h&gt;, these files under kernel/ were exposed
as needing to include one of &lt;linux/slab.h&gt; or &lt;linux/gfp.h&gt;, so explicit
includes were added where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day &lt;rpjday@crashcourse.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Following an experimental deletion of the unnecessary directive

 #include &lt;linux/slab.h&gt;

from the header file &lt;linux/percpu.h&gt;, these files under kernel/ were exposed
as needing to include one of &lt;linux/slab.h&gt; or &lt;linux/gfp.h&gt;, so explicit
includes were added where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day &lt;rpjday@crashcourse.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>generic: use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function</title>
<updated>2008-04-19T17:44:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Travis</name>
<email>travis@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-05T01:11:06+00:00</published>
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  * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr() function added by previous patch,
    which instead of passing the "newly allowed cpus" cpumask_t arg
    by value,  pass it by pointer:

    -int set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, cpumask_t new_mask)
    +int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const cpumask_t *new_mask)

  * Modify CPU_MASK_ALL

Depends on:
	[sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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  * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr() function added by previous patch,
    which instead of passing the "newly allowed cpus" cpumask_t arg
    by value,  pass it by pointer:

    -int set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, cpumask_t new_mask)
    +int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const cpumask_t *new_mask)

  * Modify CPU_MASK_ALL

Depends on:
	[sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus()</title>
<updated>2008-01-25T20:08:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gautham R Shenoy</name>
<email>ego@in.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-25T20:08:02+00:00</published>
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Replace all lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug from the kernel and use
get_online_cpus and put_online_cpus instead as it highlights the
refcount semantics in these operations.

The new API guarantees protection against the cpu-hotplug operation, but
it doesn't guarantee serialized access to any of the local data
structures. Hence the changes needs to be reviewed.

In case of pseries_add_processor/pseries_remove_processor, use
cpu_maps_update_begin()/cpu_maps_update_done() as we're modifying the
cpu_present_map there.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy &lt;ego@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Replace all lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug from the kernel and use
get_online_cpus and put_online_cpus instead as it highlights the
refcount semantics in these operations.

The new API guarantees protection against the cpu-hotplug operation, but
it doesn't guarantee serialized access to any of the local data
structures. Hence the changes needs to be reviewed.

In case of pseries_add_processor/pseries_remove_processor, use
cpu_maps_update_begin()/cpu_maps_update_done() as we're modifying the
cpu_present_map there.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy &lt;ego@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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