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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-01-23 02:24:08 (GMT) |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-03-11 20:22:38 (GMT) |
commit | 37745d281069682d901f00c0121949a7d224195f (patch) | |
tree | 0c15fd487faa046a257336b4205572b066873ca7 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
parent | 237a0f2193c6daf9b1edd7fd15d55e680f268952 (diff) | |
download | linux-37745d281069682d901f00c0121949a7d224195f.tar.xz |
rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period initialization
Grace-period initialization normally proceeds quite quickly, so
that it is very difficult to reproduce races against grace-period
initialization. This commit therefore allows grace-period
initialization to be artificially slowed down, increasing
race-reproduction probability. A pair of new Kconfig parameters are
provided, CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT to enable the slowdowns, and
CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY to specify the number of jiffies
of slowdown to apply. A boot-time parameter named rcutree.gp_init_delay
allows boot-time delay to be specified. By default, no delay will be
applied even if CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT is set.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index bfcb1a6..94de410 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2968,6 +2968,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process in one batch. + rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] + Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of + RCU grace-period initialization. This only has + effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT is + set. + rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large |