rcutorture: Add forward-progress tests for RCU grace periods

This commit adds a kthread that loops going into and out of RCU
read-side critical sections, but also including a cond_resched(),
optionally guarded by a check of need_resched(), in that same loop.
This commit relies solely on rcu_torture_writer() progress to judge
the forward progress of grace periods.

Note that Tasks RCU and SRCU are exempted from forward-progress testing
due their (intentionally) less-robust forward-progress guarantees.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Paul E. McKenney 2018-07-18 14:32:31 -07:00
parent a52d14addf
commit 1b27291b1e
3 changed files with 74 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ static inline int rcu_needs_cpu(u64 basemono, u64 *nextevt)
*/
static inline void rcu_virt_note_context_switch(int cpu) { }
static inline void rcu_cpu_stall_reset(void) { }
static inline int rcu_jiffies_till_stall_check(void) { return 21 * HZ; }
static inline void rcu_idle_enter(void) { }
static inline void rcu_idle_exit(void) { }
static inline void rcu_irq_enter(void) { }