After finishing its tests rcuperf tries to wake up shutdown_wq even if
"shutdown" param is set to false, resulting in a wake_up() call on an
unitialized wait_queue_head_t which leads to "BUG: spinlock bad magic" and
"BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference".
Fix by checking "shutdown" param before waking up the queue.
Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com>
Running rcuperf can result in RCU CPU stall warnings and RT throttling.
These occur because on of the real-time writer processes does
ftrace_dump() while still running at real-time priority. This commit
therefore prevents these problems by setting the writer thread back to
SCHED_NORMAL (AKA SCHED_OTHER) before doing ftrace_dump().
In addition, this commit adds a small fixed delay before dumping ftrace
buffer in order to decrease the probability that this dumping will
interfere with other writers' grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Boot-time activity can legitimately grab CPUs for extended time periods,
so the commit adds a boot parameter to delay the start of the performance
test until boot has completed. Defaults to 10 seconds.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit enables ftrace in the rcuperf TREE kernel build and adds
an ftrace_dump() at the end of rcuperf processing. This data will be
used to measure the actual durations of the expedited grace periods
without the added delays inherent in the kernel-module measurements.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit forces more deterministic update-side behavior by setting
rcuperf's rcu_perf_writer() kthreads to real-time priority.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit forces more deterministic behavior by binding rcuperf's
rcu_perf_reader() and rcu_perf_writer() kthreads to their respective
CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds a new rcuperf module that carries out simple performance
tests of RCU grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Artem Savkov