[PATCH 07/11] refscale: Ditch ref_scale_shutdown in favor of torture_shutdown_init()

From: Paul E. McKenney

Date: Tue Mar 03 2026 - 18:54:33 EST


The torture_shutdown_init() function spawns a shutdown kthread in
a manner very similar to that implemented by ref_scale_shutdown().
This commit therefore re-implements ref_scale_shutdown in terms of
torture_shutdown_init().

The initial draft of this patch was generated by version 2.1.16 of the
Claude AI/LLM, but trained and configured for use by my employer, and
prompted to refer to Linux-kernel source code. This initial draft failed
to provide a forward reference to ref_scale_cleanup(), passed zero to
torture_shutdown_init() for an unwelcome insta-shutdown, and failed to
pass the kvm.sh --duration argument in as a refscale module parameter.
On the other hand, it did catch the need to NULL main_task on the
post-test self-shutdown code path, which I might well have forgotten
to do.

This version of the patch fixes those problems, and in fact very little
of the initial draft remains.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>

[outline more of development process]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/refscale.c | 51 +++++--------------
.../configs/refscale/ver_functions.sh | 2 +-
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
index c158b6a947cde..a2d9d75d88a10 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
@@ -92,15 +92,9 @@ torture_param(int, nreaders, -1, "Number of readers, -1 for 75% of CPUs.");
torture_param(int, nruns, 30, "Number of experiments to run.");
// Reader delay in nanoseconds, 0 for no delay.
torture_param(int, readdelay, 0, "Read-side delay in nanoseconds.");
-
-#ifdef MODULE
-# define REFSCALE_SHUTDOWN 0
-#else
-# define REFSCALE_SHUTDOWN 1
-#endif
-
-torture_param(bool, shutdown, REFSCALE_SHUTDOWN,
- "Shutdown at end of scalability tests.");
+// Maximum shutdown delay in seconds, or zero for no shutdown.
+torture_param(int, shutdown_secs, !IS_MODULE(CONFIG_REPRO_TEST) * 300,
+ "Shutdown at end of scalability tests or at specified timeout (s).");

struct reader_task {
struct task_struct *task;
@@ -109,12 +103,8 @@ struct reader_task {
u64 last_duration_ns;
};

-static struct task_struct *shutdown_task;
-static wait_queue_head_t shutdown_wq;
-
static struct task_struct *main_task;
static wait_queue_head_t main_wq;
-static int shutdown_start;

static struct reader_task *reader_tasks;

@@ -1357,6 +1347,8 @@ static u64 process_durations(int n)
return sum;
}

+static void ref_scale_cleanup(void);
+
// The main_func is the main orchestrator, it performs a bunch of
// experiments. For every experiment, it orders all the readers
// involved to start and waits for them to finish the experiment. It
@@ -1443,9 +1435,10 @@ static int main_func(void *arg)

oom_exit:
// This will shutdown everything including us.
- if (shutdown) {
- shutdown_start = 1;
- wake_up(&shutdown_wq);
+ if (shutdown_secs) {
+ main_task = NULL; // Avoid self-kill deadlock.
+ ref_scale_cleanup();
+ kernel_power_off();
}

// Wait for torture to stop us
@@ -1463,8 +1456,8 @@ static void
ref_scale_print_module_parms(const struct ref_scale_ops *cur_ops, const char *tag)
{
pr_alert("%s" SCALE_FLAG
- "--- %s: verbose=%d verbose_batched=%d shutdown=%d holdoff=%d lookup_instances=%ld loops=%d nreaders=%d nruns=%d readdelay=%d\n", scale_type, tag,
- verbose, verbose_batched, shutdown, holdoff, lookup_instances, loops, nreaders, nruns, readdelay);
+ "--- %s: verbose=%d verbose_batched=%d shutdown_secs=%d holdoff=%d lookup_instances=%ld loops=%d nreaders=%d nruns=%d readdelay=%d\n", scale_type, tag,
+ verbose, verbose_batched, shutdown_secs, holdoff, lookup_instances, loops, nreaders, nruns, readdelay);
}

static void
@@ -1497,19 +1490,6 @@ ref_scale_cleanup(void)
torture_cleanup_end();
}

-// Shutdown kthread. Just waits to be awakened, then shuts down system.
-static int
-ref_scale_shutdown(void *arg)
-{
- wait_event_idle(shutdown_wq, shutdown_start);
-
- smp_mb(); // Wake before output.
- ref_scale_cleanup();
- kernel_power_off();
-
- return -EINVAL;
-}
-
static int __init
ref_scale_init(void)
{
@@ -1553,13 +1533,10 @@ ref_scale_init(void)
ref_scale_print_module_parms(cur_ops, "Start of test");

// Shutdown task
- if (shutdown) {
- init_waitqueue_head(&shutdown_wq);
- firsterr = torture_create_kthread(ref_scale_shutdown, NULL,
- shutdown_task);
+ if (shutdown_secs) {
+ firsterr = torture_shutdown_init(shutdown_secs, ref_scale_cleanup);
if (torture_init_error(firsterr))
goto unwind;
- schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
}

// Reader tasks (default to ~75% of online CPUs).
@@ -1604,7 +1581,7 @@ ref_scale_init(void)
unwind:
torture_init_end();
ref_scale_cleanup();
- if (shutdown) {
+ if (shutdown_secs) {
WARN_ON(!IS_MODULE(CONFIG_RCU_REF_SCALE_TEST));
kernel_power_off();
}
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/refscale/ver_functions.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/refscale/ver_functions.sh
index 7484656276012..219fac070af28 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/refscale/ver_functions.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/refscale/ver_functions.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
#
# Adds per-version torture-module parameters to kernels supporting them.
per_version_boot_params () {
- echo refscale.shutdown=1 \
+ echo refscale.shutdown_secs=$3 \
refscale.verbose=0 \
$1
}
--
2.40.1