[PATCH rcu 2/7] rcutorture: Preempt rather than block when testing task stalls

Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21T21:04:54Z

Currently, rcu_torture_stall() does a one-jiffy timed wait when
stall_cpu_block is set. This works, but emits a pointless splat in
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels. This commit avoids this splat by instead
invoking preempt_schedule() in CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels.

This uses an admittedly ugly #ifdef, but abstracted approaches just
looked worse. A prettier approach would provide a preempt_schedule()
definition with a WARN_ON() for CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels, but this seems
quite silly.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index 40ef5417d9545..ab4215266ebee 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -2022,8 +2022,13 @@ static int rcu_torture_stall(void *args)
__func__, raw_smp_processor_id());
while (ULONG_CMP_LT((unsigned long)ktime_get_seconds(),
stop_at))
- if (stall_cpu_block)
+ if (stall_cpu_block) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPTION
+ preempt_schedule();
+#else
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ);
+#endif
+ }
if (stall_cpu_irqsoff)
local_irq_enable();
else if (!stall_cpu_block)
--
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23