Commit-ID: 9683937df9ebf4eb62cdedb09c5f20a0760c7d80
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/9683937df9ebf4eb62cdedb09c5f20a0760c7d80
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:12:52 -0700
Committer: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 08:25:24 -0700
rcuperf: Defer expedited/normal check to end of test
Current rcuperf startup checks to see if the user asked to measure
only expedited grace periods, yet constrained all grace periods to be
normal, or if the user asked to measure only normal grace periods, yet
constrained all grace periods to be expedited. Useless tests of this
sort are aborted.
Unfortunately, making RCU work through the mid-boot dead zone [1] puts
RCU into expedited-only mode during that zone. Which happens to also
be the exact time that rcuperf carries out the aforementioned check.
So if the user asks rcuperf to measure only normal grace periods (the
default), rcuperf will now always complain and terminate the test.
This commit therefore moves the checks to rcu_perf_cleanup(). This has
the disadvantage of failing to abort useless tests, but avoids the need to
create yet another kthread and the need to do fiddly checks involving the
holdoff time. (Yes, another approach is to do the checks in a late-stage
init function, but that would require some way to communicate badness
to rcuperf's kthreads, and seems not worth the bother.)
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/716148/
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c | 19 +++++++++----------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c b/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
index a4a86fb..ef5b1fa 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
@@ -452,6 +452,15 @@ rcu_perf_cleanup(void)
u64 *wdp;
u64 *wdpp;
+ /*
+ * Would like warning at start, but everything is expedited
+ * during the mid-boot phase, so have to wait till the end.
+ */
+ if (rcu_gp_is_expedited() && !rcu_gp_is_normal() && !gp_exp)
+ VERBOSE_PERFOUT_ERRSTRING("All grace periods expedited, no normal ones to measure!");
+ if (rcu_gp_is_normal() && gp_exp)
+ VERBOSE_PERFOUT_ERRSTRING("All grace periods normal, no expedited ones to measure!");
+
if (torture_cleanup_begin())
return;
@@ -624,16 +633,6 @@ rcu_perf_init(void)
firsterr = -ENOMEM;
goto unwind;
}
- if (rcu_gp_is_expedited() && !rcu_gp_is_normal() && !gp_exp) {
- VERBOSE_PERFOUT_ERRSTRING("All grace periods expedited, no normal ones to measure!");
- firsterr = -EINVAL;
- goto unwind;
- }
- if (rcu_gp_is_normal() && gp_exp) {
- VERBOSE_PERFOUT_ERRSTRING("All grace periods normal, no expedited ones to measure!");
- firsterr = -EINVAL;
- goto unwind;
- }
for (i = 0; i < nrealwriters; i++) {
writer_durations[i] =
kcalloc(MAX_MEAS, sizeof(*writer_durations[i]),
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