From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/3] increase rcutorture intensity and fix a couple resulting bugs
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:53:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090908225349.GA19524@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
This patch series increases the intensity of rcutorture testing for
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and provides fixes for a couple resulting bugs.
o Make rcutorture's RCU read-side critical sections occasionally
spin for a few tens of milliseconds, which greatly increases
the probability that they will be preempted and that quiescent
states will be forced. Yes, this does uncover some bugs in
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU (though TREE_RCU passes with flying colors).
o Fix a bug where rnp->gpnum was not being updated. This
increases TREE_PREEMPT_RCU's reliability considerably, though
bugs still remain.
o Make the initialization of multi-node trees of rcu_node
structures unconditionally acquire rnp->lock. This simplifies
the code a bit and will make it easier to allow grace-period
initialization become preemptable, should this be needed.
Next steps include applying review comments, adding expedited grace
periods, and chasing down remaining bugs. Longer term, RCU priority
boosting.
b/kernel/rcutorture.c | 16 +++++++++-------
b/kernel/rcutree.c | 7 +++++--
kernel/rcutree.c | 42 ++++++++++++------------------------------
3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
next reply other threads:[~2009-09-08 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-08 22:53 Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2009-09-08 22:54 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/3] rcutorture: Occasionally delay readers enough to make RCU force_quiescent_state Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-12 7:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-12 14:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-12 7:55 ` [tip:core/urgent] " tip-bot for Josh Triplett
2009-09-17 22:10 ` tip-bot for Josh Triplett
2009-09-08 22:54 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/3] Need to update rnp->gpnum if preemptable RCU is to be reliable Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-12 7:55 ` [tip:core/urgent] rcu: " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-17 22:10 ` tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-08 22:54 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/3] Initialize multi-level RCU grace periods holding locks Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-12 7:55 ` [tip:core/urgent] rcu: " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-17 22:10 ` tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-08 23:37 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/3] increase rcutorture intensity and fix a couple resulting bugs Steven Rostedt
2009-09-09 17:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-09-09 18:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-09-12 7:46 ` Ingo Molnar
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