Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] rcutorture: Avoid soft lockup during cpu stall

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Nov 10 2021 - 19:09:11 EST


On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:37:45AM -0300, Wander Lairson Costa wrote:
> If we use the module stall_cpu option, we may get a soft lockup warning
> in case we also don't pass the stall_cpu_block option.
>
> Introduce the stall_no_softlockup option to avoid a soft lockup on
> cpu stall even if we don't use the stall_cpu_block option.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@xxxxxxxxxx>

Queued for review and further testing, thank you!

Thanx, Paul

> ---
> kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
> index 36a273589a35..bc854f935548 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
> @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
> #include <linux/oom.h>
> #include <linux/tick.h>
> #include <linux/rcupdate_trace.h>
> +#include <linux/nmi.h>
>
> #include "rcu.h"
>
> @@ -112,6 +113,8 @@ torture_param(int, shutdown_secs, 0, "Shutdown time (s), <= zero to disable.");
> torture_param(int, stall_cpu, 0, "Stall duration (s), zero to disable.");
> torture_param(int, stall_cpu_holdoff, 10,
> "Time to wait before starting stall (s).");
> +torture_param(bool, stall_no_softlockup, false,
> + "Avoid softlockup warning during cpu stall.");
> torture_param(int, stall_cpu_irqsoff, 0, "Disable interrupts while stalling.");
> torture_param(int, stall_cpu_block, 0, "Sleep while stalling.");
> torture_param(int, stall_gp_kthread, 0,
> @@ -2085,6 +2088,8 @@ static int rcu_torture_stall(void *args)
> #else
> schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ);
> #endif
> + } else if (stall_no_softlockup) {
> + touch_softlockup_watchdog();
> }
> if (stall_cpu_irqsoff)
> local_irq_enable();
> --
> 2.27.0
>