[PATCH RFC v2 15/24] hazptrtorture: Add the ability to disable the writer kthread

From: Paul E. McKenney

Date: Wed Jul 15 2026 - 20:21:15 EST


This commit adds a hazptrtorture.nwriters module parameter that, when set
to zero, disables hazard-pointer update-side activity.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/hazptrtorture.c | 14 +++++++++-----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/hazptrtorture.c b/kernel/rcu/hazptrtorture.c
index 625ed90912a2c6..0752cedb2f5570 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/hazptrtorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/hazptrtorture.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ torture_param(int, irq_acquire, -1,
torture_param(int, kthread_do_pending_ms, -1,
"Delay between cleanups for deferred hazard pointers (ms), zero to disable");
torture_param(int, nreaders, -1, "Number of hazard-pointer reader threads");
+torture_param(int, nwriters, 1, "Number of hazard-pointer writer threads, 0 or 1");
torture_param(int, onoff_holdoff, 0, "Time after boot before CPU hotplugs (s)");
torture_param(int, onoff_interval, 0, "Time between CPU hotplugs (jiffies), 0=disable");
torture_param(int, preempt_duration, 0, "Preemption duration (ms), zero to disable");
@@ -658,14 +659,14 @@ static void
hazptr_torture_print_module_parms(struct hazptr_torture_ops *cur_ops, const char *tag)
{
pr_alert("%s" TORTURE_FLAG
- "--- %s: nreaders=%d "
+ "--- %s: nreaders=%d nwriters=%d "
"defer_modulus=%d irq_acquire=%d kthread_do_pending_ms=%d "
"onoff_interval=%d onoff_holdoff=%d "
"preempt_duration=%d preempt_interval=%d "
"reader_sleep_us=%d "
"shuffle_interval=%d shutdown_secs=%d stat_interval=%d stutter=%d "
"verbose=%d\n",
- torture_type, tag, nrealreaders,
+ torture_type, tag, nrealreaders, nwriters,
defer_modulus, irq_acquire, kthread_do_pending_ms,
onoff_interval, onoff_holdoff,
preempt_duration, preempt_interval,
@@ -825,9 +826,12 @@ static int __init hazptr_torture_init(void)
goto unwind;
}

- firsterr = torture_create_kthread(hazptr_torture_writer, NULL, writer_task);
- if (torture_init_error(firsterr))
- goto unwind;
+ if (nwriters) {
+ WARN_ON(IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_HAZPTR_TORTURE_TEST) && nwriters != 1);
+ firsterr = torture_create_kthread(hazptr_torture_writer, NULL, writer_task);
+ if (torture_init_error(firsterr))
+ goto unwind;
+ }

firsterr = torture_onoff_init(onoff_holdoff * HZ, onoff_interval, NULL);
if (torture_init_error(firsterr))
--
2.40.1