Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 21/55] rcutorture: Export torture_type and verbose module parameters

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:29:18PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 02:12:25PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > 
> > The torture_type and verbose module parameters are needed for log messages,
> > so this commit exports them to include/linux/torture.h.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Assuming this doesn't go away (which I really hope it does), this needs
> to occur *before* the introduction of the macros using these variables.

Yep, it does go away.  ;-)

But it bisects as is -- the only user at this point in the series is
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c, which is where the definitions got moved from.

							Thanx, Paul

> - Josh Triplett
> 
> >  include/linux/torture.h | 4 ++++
> >  kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 8 ++++++--
> >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/torture.h b/include/linux/torture.h
> > index c61b4ce18a13..9b6a4834de8f 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/torture.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/torture.h
> > @@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ extern int fullstop;
> >  /* Protect fullstop transitions and spawning of kthreads.  */
> >  extern struct mutex fullstop_mutex;
> >  
> > +/* Common module parameters. */
> > +extern char *torture_type;
> > +extern bool verbose;
> > +
> >  #define TORTURE_FLAG "-torture:"
> >  #define TOROUT_STRING(s) \
> >  	pr_alert("%s" TORTURE_FLAG s "\n", torture_type)
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
> > index 3687619b243a..49cdeeaaa54b 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
> > +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
> > @@ -90,11 +90,15 @@ torture_parm(int, test_boost_interval, 7,
> >  	     "Interval between boost tests, seconds.");
> >  torture_parm(bool, test_no_idle_hz, true,
> >  	     "Test support for tickless idle CPUs");
> > -torture_parm(bool, verbose, false, "Enable verbose debugging printk()s");
> >  
> > -static char *torture_type = "rcu";
> > +char *torture_type = "rcu";
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(torture_type);
> >  module_param(torture_type, charp, 0444);
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(torture_type, "Type of RCU to torture (rcu, rcu_bh, ...)");
> > +bool verbose;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(verbose);
> > +module_param(verbose, bool, 0444);
> > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(verbose, "Enable verbose debugging printk()s");
> >  
> >  static int nrealreaders;
> >  static struct task_struct *writer_task;
> > -- 
> > 1.8.1.5
> > 
>