[PATCH] rcutorture: Clear cbflood_max for tasks-rude and srcu-atomic testing
From: Zqiang
Date: Mon Oct 12 2026 - 06:42:40 EST
When running the tasks-rude and srcu-atomic tests, the fwd_prog_tasks
kthread is created because the default value of fwd_progress is 1.
however, the two RCU flavors not support ->call():
1. tasks-rude: commit b428a9de9bba ("rcutorture: Stop testing RCU Tasks
Rude asynchronous APIs") removed .call and .cb_barrier from tasks-rude,
but left the .cbflood_max = 50000.
2. srcu-atomic: srcu_torture_init_forbidden_apis() sets ->call to NULL
for SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_ATOMIC runs, but leaves ->cbflood_max untouched.
In both cases, the non-zero ->cbflood_max fools the check above into
creating the fwd_prog_tasks kthreads, even though those kthreads cannot
possibly carry out any forward-progress test:
1. The rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cr() returns immediately due to cur_ops->call
is NULL:
[ 68.022674] rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cr: No ->call(), so no forward-progress test 0
[ 129.462046] rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cr: No ->call(), so no forward-progress test 0
[ 190.902123] rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cr: No ->call(), so no forward-progress test 0
[ 252.343809] rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cr: No ->call(), so no forward-progress test 0
2. The rcu_torture_fwd_prog_nr() is never even invoked, because its caller
requires cur_ops->stall_dur, and neither tasks-rude nor srcu-atomic
provide ->stall_dur (only rcu_ops does).
Therefore, creating fwd_prog_tasks kthreads is pointless, this commit
removes the .cbflood_max from tasks-rude and clears ->cbflood_max in the
srcu_torture_init_forbidden_apis().
simple verification output:
[ 3.062959][ T1] srcu-torture: rcu_torture_fwd_prog_init: Disabled, unsupported by RCU flavor under test
[ 2.922323][ T1] tasks-rude-torture: rcu_torture_fwd_prog_init: Disabled, unsupported by RCU flavor under test
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index 968343be4e0d..00db87256e78 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -723,6 +723,7 @@ static void srcu_torture_init_forbidden_apis(void)
cur_ops->deferred_free = NULL;
cur_ops->exp_current = NULL;
cur_ops->start_gp_poll = NULL;
+ cur_ops->cbflood_max = 0;
}
static void srcu_torture_init(void)
@@ -1250,7 +1251,6 @@ static struct rcu_torture_ops tasks_rude_ops = {
.exp_sync = synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude,
.gp_kthread_dbg = show_rcu_tasks_rude_gp_kthread,
.get_gp_data = rcu_tasks_rude_get_gp_data,
- .cbflood_max = 50000,
.irq_capable = 1,
.name = "tasks-rude"
};
--
2.17.1