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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2009-06-25 12:08:18 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-07-03 04:02:29 -0400 |
commit | 240ebbf81f149b11a31e060ebe5ee51a3c775360 (patch) | |
tree | d8aa6601bd789991588e467bf734d40df36e1317 /Documentation/RCU/torture.txt | |
parent | 0acc512cb1a29636df5e982c7d845edafe77c2d0 (diff) |
rcu: Add synchronize_sched_expedited() rcutorture doc + updates
This patch updates the rcutorture documentation to include
updated output format. It also brings the RCU documentation up
to date.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
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Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com
Cc: zbr@ioremap.net
Cc: jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com
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Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
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Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/torture.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/torture.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt index a342b6e1cc10..9dba3bb90e60 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt | |||
@@ -76,8 +76,10 @@ torture_type The type of RCU to test: "rcu" for the rcu_read_lock() API, | |||
76 | "rcu_sync" for rcu_read_lock() with synchronous reclamation, | 76 | "rcu_sync" for rcu_read_lock() with synchronous reclamation, |
77 | "rcu_bh" for the rcu_read_lock_bh() API, "rcu_bh_sync" for | 77 | "rcu_bh" for the rcu_read_lock_bh() API, "rcu_bh_sync" for |
78 | rcu_read_lock_bh() with synchronous reclamation, "srcu" for | 78 | rcu_read_lock_bh() with synchronous reclamation, "srcu" for |
79 | the "srcu_read_lock()" API, and "sched" for the use of | 79 | the "srcu_read_lock()" API, "sched" for the use of |
80 | preempt_disable() together with synchronize_sched(). | 80 | preempt_disable() together with synchronize_sched(), |
81 | and "sched_expedited" for the use of preempt_disable() | ||
82 | with synchronize_sched_expedited(). | ||
81 | 83 | ||
82 | verbose Enable debug printk()s. Default is disabled. | 84 | verbose Enable debug printk()s. Default is disabled. |
83 | 85 | ||
@@ -162,6 +164,23 @@ of the "old" and "current" counters for the corresponding CPU. The | |||
162 | "idx" value maps the "old" and "current" values to the underlying array, | 164 | "idx" value maps the "old" and "current" values to the underlying array, |
163 | and is useful for debugging. | 165 | and is useful for debugging. |
164 | 166 | ||
167 | Similarly, sched_expedited RCU provides the following: | ||
168 | |||
169 | sched_expedited-torture: rtc: d0000000016c1880 ver: 1090796 tfle: 0 rta: 1090796 rtaf: 0 rtf: 1090787 rtmbe: 0 nt: 27713319 | ||
170 | sched_expedited-torture: Reader Pipe: 12660320201 95875 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | ||
171 | sched_expedited-torture: Reader Batch: 12660424885 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | ||
172 | sched_expedited-torture: Free-Block Circulation: 1090795 1090795 1090794 1090793 1090792 1090791 1090790 1090789 1090788 1090787 0 | ||
173 | state: -1 / 0:0 3:0 4:0 | ||
174 | |||
175 | As before, the first four lines are similar to those for RCU. | ||
176 | The last line shows the task-migration state. The first number is | ||
177 | -1 if synchronize_sched_expedited() is idle, -2 if in the process of | ||
178 | posting wakeups to the migration kthreads, and N when waiting on CPU N. | ||
179 | Each of the colon-separated fields following the "/" is a CPU:state pair. | ||
180 | Valid states are "0" for idle, "1" for waiting for quiescent state, | ||
181 | "2" for passed through quiescent state, and "3" when a race with a | ||
182 | CPU-hotplug event forces use of the synchronize_sched() primitive. | ||
183 | |||
165 | 184 | ||
166 | USAGE | 185 | USAGE |
167 | 186 | ||