Hi Paul, On 2020/9/19 1:59, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 07:44:24PM +0800, Hou Tao wrote: >> When do locktorture for exclusive lock which doesn't have readlock >> support, the following module parameters will be considered as valid: >> >> torture_type=mutex_lock nwriters_stress=0 nreaders_stress=1 >> >> But locktorture will do nothing useful, so instead of permitting >> these useless parameters, let's reject these parameters by returning >> -EINVAL during module init. >> >> Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Much better, much easier for people a year from now to understand. > Queued for v5.11, thank you! > > I did edit the commit log a bit as shown below, so please let me > know if I messed anything up. > Thanks for your edit, it looks more clearer. Regards, Tao > Thanx, Paul > > commit 4985c52e3b5237666265e59f56856f485ee36e71 > Author: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Sep 18 19:44:24 2020 +0800 > > locktorture: Ignore nreaders_stress if no readlock support > > Exclusive locks do not have readlock support, which means that a > locktorture run with the following module parameters will do nothing: > > torture_type=mutex_lock nwriters_stress=0 nreaders_stress=1 > > This commit therefore rejects this combination for exclusive locks by > returning -EINVAL during module init. > > Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/kernel/locking/locktorture.c b/kernel/locking/locktorture.c > index 316531d..046ea2d 100644 > --- a/kernel/locking/locktorture.c > +++ b/kernel/locking/locktorture.c > @@ -870,7 +870,8 @@ static int __init lock_torture_init(void) > goto unwind; > } > > - if (nwriters_stress == 0 && nreaders_stress == 0) { > + if (nwriters_stress == 0 && > + (!cxt.cur_ops->readlock || nreaders_stress == 0)) { > pr_alert("lock-torture: must run at least one locking thread\n"); > firsterr = -EINVAL; > goto unwind; > . >