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    rcutorture: Add support to detect if boost kthread prio is too low · 4babd855
    Joel Fernandes (Google) authored
    When rcutorture is built in to the kernel, an earlier patch detects
    that and raises the priority of RCU's kthreads to allow rcutorture's
    RCU priority boosting tests to succeed.
    
    However, if rcutorture is built as a module, those priorities must be
    raised manually via the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter.
    If this manual step is not taken, rcutorture's RCU priority boosting
    tests will fail due to kthread starvation.  One approach would be to
    raise the default priority, but that risks breaking existing users.
    Another approach would be to allow runtime adjustment of RCU's kthread
    priorities, but that introduces numerous "interesting" race conditions.
    This patch therefore instead detects too-low priorities, and prints a
    message and disables the RCU priority boosting tests in that case.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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