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SeongJae Park a56fefa260 rcuperf: Consistently insert space between flag and message
A few rcuperf dmesg output messages have no space between the flag and
the start of the message. In contrast, every other messages consistently
supplies a single space.  This difference makes rcuperf dmesg output
hard to read and to mechanically parse.  This commit therefore fixes
this problem by modifying a pr_alert() call and PERFOUT_STRING() macro
function to provide that single space.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-08-22 10:06:16 -07:00
Wei Yongjun 05dbbfe753 rcutorture: Fix error return code in rcu_perf_init()
Fix to return a negative error code -ENOMEM from kcalloc() error
handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-06-14 16:03:32 -07:00
Boqun Feng af06d4f74a rcuperf: Don't treat gp_exp mis-setting as a WARN
0day found a boot warning triggered in rcu_perf_writer() on !SMP kernel:

	WARN_ON(rcu_gp_is_normal() && gp_exp);

, the root cause of which is trying to measure expedited grace
periods(by setting gp_exp to true by default) when all the grace periods
are normal(TINY RCU only has normal grace periods).

However, such a mis-setting would only result in failing to measure the
performance for a specific kind of grace periods, therefore using a
WARN_ON to check this is a little overkilling. We could handle this
inside rcuperf module via some error messages to tell users about the
mis-settings.

Therefore this patch removes the WARN_ON in rcu_perf_writer() and
handles those checkings in rcu_perf_init() with plain if() code.

Moreover, this patch changes the default value of gp_exp to 1) align
with rcutorture tests and 2) make the default setting work for all RCU
implementations by default.

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Fixes: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57411b10.mFvG0+AgcrMXGtcj%fengguang.wu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-06-14 16:03:31 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney f8cbdee99b torture: Simplify code, eliminate RCU_PERF_TEST_RUNNABLE
This commit applies the infamous IS_ENABLED() macro to eliminate a #ifdef.
It also eliminates the RCU_PERF_TEST_RUNNABLE Kconfig option in favor
of the already-existing rcuperf.perf_runnable kernel boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-06-14 16:02:15 -07:00
Artem Savkov e6fb1fc108 rcuperf: Do not wake up shutdown wait queue if "shutdown" is false.
After finishing its tests rcuperf tries to wake up shutdown_wq even if
"shutdown" param is set to false, resulting in a wake_up() call on an
unitialized wait_queue_head_t which leads to "BUG: spinlock bad magic" and
"BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference".

Fix by checking "shutdown" param before waking up the queue.

Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com>
2016-03-31 13:39:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 620316e52a rcutorture: Avoid RCU CPU stall warning and RT throttling
Running rcuperf can result in RCU CPU stall warnings and RT throttling.
These occur because on of the real-time writer processes does
ftrace_dump() while still running at real-time priority.  This commit
therefore prevents these problems by setting the writer thread back to
SCHED_NORMAL (AKA SCHED_OTHER) before doing ftrace_dump().

In addition, this commit adds a small fixed delay before dumping ftrace
buffer in order to decrease the probability that this dumping will
interfere with other writers' grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31 13:39:47 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney df37e66bfd rcutorture: Add rcuperf holdoff boot parameter to reduce interference
Boot-time activity can legitimately grab CPUs for extended time periods,
so the commit adds a boot parameter to delay the start of the performance
test until boot has completed.  Defaults to 10 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31 13:38:58 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney ac2bb275e8 rcutorture: Make rcuperf collect expedited event-trace data
This commit enables ftrace in the rcuperf TREE kernel build and adds
an ftrace_dump() at the end of rcuperf processing.  This data will be
used to measure the actual durations of the expedited grace periods
without the added delays inherent in the kernel-module measurements.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31 13:38:53 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 2094c99558 rcutorture: Set rcuperf writer kthreads to real-time priority
This commit forces more deterministic update-side behavior by setting
rcuperf's rcu_perf_writer() kthreads to real-time priority.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31 13:37:39 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 6b558c4c7a rcutorture: Bind rcuperf reader/writer kthreads to CPUs
This commit forces more deterministic behavior by binding rcuperf's
rcu_perf_reader() and rcu_perf_writer() kthreads to their respective
CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31 13:37:39 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 8704baab9b rcutorture: Add RCU grace-period performance tests
This commit adds a new rcuperf module that carries out simple performance
tests of RCU grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31 13:37:38 -07:00