doc/rcutorture: Add description of rcutorture.stall_cpu_block
If you build a kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, then run the rcutorture tests specifying stalls as follows: runqemu kvm slirp nographic qemuparams="-m 1024 -smp 4" \ bootparams="console=ttyS0 rcutorture.stall_cpu=30 \ rcutorture.stall_no_softlockup=1 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block=1" -d The tests will produce the following splat: [ 10.841071] rcu-torture: rcu_torture_stall begin CPU stall [ 10.841073] rcu_torture_stall start on CPU 3. [ 10.841077] BUG: scheduling while atomic: rcu_torture_sta/66/0x0000000 .... [ 10.841108] Call Trace: [ 10.841110] <TASK> [ 10.841112] dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0xb0 [ 10.841118] dump_stack+0x10/0x20 [ 10.841121] __schedule_bug+0x8b/0xb0 [ 10.841126] __schedule+0x2172/0x2940 [ 10.841157] schedule+0x9b/0x150 [ 10.841160] schedule_timeout+0x2e8/0x4f0 [ 10.841192] schedule_timeout_uninterruptible+0x47/0x50 [ 10.841195] rcu_torture_stall+0x2e8/0x300 [ 10.841199] kthread+0x175/0x1a0 [ 10.841206] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50 This is because the rcutorture.stall_cpu_block=1 module parameter causes rcu_torture_stall() to invoke schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() within an RCU read-side critical section. This in turn results in a quiescent state (which prevents the stall) and a sleep in an atomic context (which produces the above splat). Although this code is operating as designed, the design has proven to be counterintuitive to many. This commit therefore updates the description in kernel-parameters.txt accordingly. [ paulmck: Apply Joel Fernandes feedback. ] Signed-off-by:Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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