This just catches the RCU torture documentation up with the recent
fixes that test RCU for architectures that turn of the scheduling-clock
interrupt for idle CPUs and the addition of a SUCCESS/FAILURE
indication, fixing up an obsolete comment as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/RCU/torture.txt | 12 +++++++++++-
kernel/rcutorture.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -urpNa -X dontdiff linux-2.6.17/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt linux-2.6.17-torturedoc/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
--- linux-2.6.17/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt 2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17-torturedoc/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt 2006-06-24 11:34:36.000000000 -0700
@@ -35,6 +35,15 @@ stat_interval The number of seconds betw
be printed -only- when the module is unloaded, and this
is the default.
+shuffle_interval
+ The number of seconds to keep the test threads affinitied
+ to a particular subset of the CPUs. Used in conjunction
+ with test_no_idle_hz.
+
+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.
+
verbose Enable debug printk()s. Default is disabled.
@@ -119,4 +128,5 @@ The following script may be used to tort
The output can be manually inspected for the error flag of "!!!".
One could of course create a more elaborate script that automatically
-checked for such errors.
+checked for such errors. The "rmmod" command forces a "SUCCESS" or
+"FAILURE" indication to be printk()ed.
diff -urpNa -X dontdiff linux-2.6.17/kernel/rcutorture.c linux-2.6.17-torturedoc/kernel/rcutorture.c
--- linux-2.6.17/kernel/rcutorture.c 2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17-torturedoc/kernel/rcutorture.c 2006-06-23 16:28:08.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*
- * Read-Copy Update /proc-based torture test facility
+ * Read-Copy Update module-based torture test facility
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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