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[PATCH] rcu: add rcu_sync torture type to rcutorture

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Use the newly-generic synchronous deferred free function to implement torture
testing for RCU using synchronize_rcu rather than the asynchronous call_rcu.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Josh Triplett
2006-10-04 02:17:15 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e303373658
commit 20d2e4283a
2 changed files with 19 additions and 5 deletions
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@ -53,9 +53,10 @@ test_no_idle_hz Whether or not to test the ability of RCU to operate in
a kernel that disables the scheduling-clock interrupt to
idle CPUs. Boolean parameter, "1" to test, "0" otherwise.
torture_type The type of RCU to test: "rcu" for the rcu_read_lock()
API, "rcu_bh" for the rcu_read_lock_bh() API, and "srcu"
for the "srcu_read_lock()" API.
torture_type The type of RCU to test: "rcu" for the rcu_read_lock() API,
"rcu_sync" for rcu_read_lock() with synchronous reclamation,
"rcu_bh" for the rcu_read_lock_bh() API, and "srcu" for the
"srcu_read_lock()" API.
verbose Enable debug printk()s. Default is disabled.