rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period scans

Grace-period scans of the rcu_node combining tree normally
proceed quite quickly, so that it is very difficult to reproduce
races against them.  This commit therefore allows grace-period
pre-initialization and cleanup to be artificially slowed down,
increasing race-reproduction probability.  A pair of pairs of new
Kconfig parameters are provided, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT to
enable the slowing down of propagating CPU-hotplug changes up the
combining tree along with RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY to
specify the delay in jiffies, and RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
to enable the slowing down of the end-of-grace-period cleanup scan
along with RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY to specify the delay
in jiffies.  Boot-time parameters named rcutree.gp_preinit_delay and
rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay allow these delays to be specified at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 52 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index ba2b0c87e65b..e1af93ae246b 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1261,12 +1261,38 @@ config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
 	  Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
 	  after being manually enabled via /proc.
 
+config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
+	bool "Slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization to expose races"
+	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
+	help
+	  This option delays grace-period pre-initialization (the
+	  propagation of CPU-hotplug changes up the rcu_node combining
+	  tree) for a few jiffies between initializing each pair of
+	  consecutive rcu_node structures.  This helps to expose races
+	  involving grace-period pre-initialization, in other words, it
+	  makes your kernel less stable.  It can also greatly increase
+	  grace-period latency, especially on systems with large numbers
+	  of CPUs.  This is useful when torture-testing RCU, but in
+	  almost no other circumstance.
+
+	  Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
+	  Say N if you want a sane system.
+
+config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY
+	int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period pre-initialization"
+	range 0 5
+	default 3
+	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT
+	help
+	  This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
+	  each rcu_node structure pre-initialization step.
+
 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
 	bool "Slow down RCU grace-period initialization to expose races"
 	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
 	help
-	  This option makes grace-period initialization block for a
-	  few jiffies between initializing each pair of consecutive
+	  This option delays grace-period initialization for a few
+	  jiffies between initializing each pair of consecutive
 	  rcu_node structures.	This helps to expose races involving
 	  grace-period initialization, in other words, it makes your
 	  kernel less stable.  It can also greatly increase grace-period
@@ -1286,6 +1312,30 @@ config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY
 	  This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
 	  each rcu_node structure initialization.
 
+config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
+	bool "Slow down RCU grace-period cleanup to expose races"
+	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST
+	help
+	  This option delays grace-period cleanup for a few jiffies
+	  between cleaning up each pair of consecutive rcu_node
+	  structures.  This helps to expose races involving grace-period
+	  cleanup, in other words, it makes your kernel less stable.
+	  It can also greatly increase grace-period latency, especially
+	  on systems with large numbers of CPUs.  This is useful when
+	  torture-testing RCU, but in almost no other circumstance.
+
+	  Say Y here if you want your system to crash and hang more often.
+	  Say N if you want a sane system.
+
+config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY
+	int "How much to slow down RCU grace-period cleanup"
+	range 0 5
+	default 3
+	depends on RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
+	help
+	  This option specifies the number of jiffies to wait between
+	  each rcu_node structure cleanup operation.
+
 config RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
 	int "RCU CPU stall timeout in seconds"
 	depends on RCU_STALL_COMMON