rcu: Add rcutorture system-shutdown capability

Although it is easy to run rcutorture tests under KVM, there is currently
no nice way to run such a test for a fixed time period, collect all of
the rcutorture data, and then shut the system down cleanly.  This commit
therefore adds an rcutorture module parameter named "shutdown_secs" that
specified the run duration in seconds, after which rcutorture terminates
the test and powers the system down.  The default value for "shutdown_secs"
is zero, which disables shutdown.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
index 783d6c134d3f..af40929e1cb0 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ shuffle_interval
                 to a particular subset of the CPUs, defaults to 3 seconds.
                 Used in conjunction with test_no_idle_hz.
 
+shutdown_secs   The number of seconds to run the test before terminating
+                the test and powering off the system.  The default is
+                zero, which disables test termination and system shutdown.
+                This capability is useful for automated testing.
+
 stat_interval   The number of seconds between output of torture
                 statistics (via printk()).  Regardless of the interval,
                 statistics are printed when the module is unloaded.