* Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The attached patch adds CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST, which enables a /proc-based
> > intense torture test of the RCU infrastructure. This is needed due to the
> > continued changes to RCU infrastructure to accommodate dynamic ticks, CPU
> > hotplug, and so on. Most of the code is in a separate file that is compiled
> > only if the CONFIG variable is set. Documentation on how to run the test
> > and interpret the output is also included.
> >
> > This code has been tested on i386 and ppc64, and an earlier version of the
> > code has seen extensive testing on a number of architectures as part of the
> > PREEMPT_RT patchset.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: <[email protected]>
>
> Can you just run the tests from time to time inside IBM?
actually, i think RCU_TORTURE_TEST is a prime example of why this should
be in the main kernel. The torture-test found RCU bugs that never popped
up during normal use, and RCU bugs are hillariously hard to debug.
Having that code outside of the main kernel will most certainly result
in a degradation of the test - while it's role for the development of
new architectures (and changes to the rcu code) is very important. I
agree it should move to debugfs, and maybe in the future we'll need some
better framework for a 'in-kernel integrated testsuite'. I think we
should encourage such testsuites. I was thinking about writing something
similar for spinlocks and rwlocks and semaphores. (we occasionally break
them and they are hard to debug too)
Ingo
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