[PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/10] rcutorture: Record grace periods in forward-progress histogram

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Jan 09 2019 - 16:50:43 EST


This commit records grace periods in rcutorture's n_launders_hist[]
histogram, thus allowing rcu_torture_fwd_cb_hist() to print out the
elapsed number of grace periods between buckets. This information
helps to determine whether a lack of forward progress is due to stalled
grace periods on the one hand or due to sluggish callback invocation on
the other.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index f6e85faa4ff4..0955f3a20952 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -1630,21 +1630,34 @@ static bool rcu_fwd_emergency_stop;
#define MIN_FWD_CB_LAUNDERS 3 /* This many CB invocations to count. */
#define MIN_FWD_CBS_LAUNDERED 100 /* Number of counted CBs. */
#define FWD_CBS_HIST_DIV 10 /* Histogram buckets/second. */
-static long n_launders_hist[2 * MAX_FWD_CB_JIFFIES / (HZ / FWD_CBS_HIST_DIV)];
+struct rcu_launder_hist {
+ long n_launders;
+ unsigned long launder_gp_seq;
+};
+#define N_LAUNDERS_HIST (2 * MAX_FWD_CB_JIFFIES / (HZ / FWD_CBS_HIST_DIV))
+static struct rcu_launder_hist n_launders_hist[N_LAUNDERS_HIST];
+static unsigned long rcu_launder_gp_seq_start;

static void rcu_torture_fwd_cb_hist(void)
{
+ unsigned long gps;
+ unsigned long gps_old;
int i;
int j;

for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(n_launders_hist) - 1; i > 0; i--)
- if (n_launders_hist[i] > 0)
+ if (n_launders_hist[i].n_launders > 0)
break;
pr_alert("%s: Callback-invocation histogram (duration %lu jiffies):",
__func__, jiffies - rcu_fwd_startat);
- for (j = 0; j <= i; j++)
- pr_cont(" %ds/%d: %ld",
- j + 1, FWD_CBS_HIST_DIV, n_launders_hist[j]);
+ gps_old = rcu_launder_gp_seq_start;
+ for (j = 0; j <= i; j++) {
+ gps = n_launders_hist[j].launder_gp_seq;
+ pr_cont(" %ds/%d: %ld:%ld",
+ j + 1, FWD_CBS_HIST_DIV, n_launders_hist[j].n_launders,
+ rcutorture_seq_diff(gps, gps_old));
+ gps_old = gps;
+ }
pr_cont("\n");
}

@@ -1666,7 +1679,8 @@ static void rcu_torture_fwd_cb_cr(struct rcu_head *rhp)
i = ((jiffies - rcu_fwd_startat) / (HZ / FWD_CBS_HIST_DIV));
if (i >= ARRAY_SIZE(n_launders_hist))
i = ARRAY_SIZE(n_launders_hist) - 1;
- n_launders_hist[i]++;
+ n_launders_hist[i].n_launders++;
+ n_launders_hist[i].launder_gp_seq = cur_ops->get_gp_seq();
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rcu_fwd_lock, flags);
}

@@ -1786,9 +1800,10 @@ static void rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cr(void)
n_max_cbs = 0;
n_max_gps = 0;
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(n_launders_hist); i++)
- n_launders_hist[i] = 0;
+ n_launders_hist[i].n_launders = 0;
cver = READ_ONCE(rcu_torture_current_version);
gps = cur_ops->get_gp_seq();
+ rcu_launder_gp_seq_start = gps;
while (time_before(jiffies, stopat) &&
!READ_ONCE(rcu_fwd_emergency_stop) && !torture_must_stop()) {
rfcp = READ_ONCE(rcu_fwd_cb_head);
--
2.17.1