linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/17] rcutorture: Adjust number of reader kthreads per CPU-hotplug operations

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Date:   Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:47:47 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/17] rcutorture: Adjust number of reader kthreads per CPU-hotplug operations

Currently, rcutorture provisions rcu_torture_reader() kthreads based
on the initial number of CPUs.  This can be problematic when CPU hotplug
is enabled, as a system with a very large number of CPUs will provision
a very large number of rcu_torture_reader() kthreads.  All of these
kthreads will continue running even if the CPU-hotplug operations result
in only one remaining online CPU.  This can result in all sorts of strange
artifacts due simply to massive overload.

This commit therefore causes the rcu_torture_reader() kthreads to start
blocking as the number of online CPUs decreases.  This is accomplished
by numbering these kthreads, and having each check to make sure that the
number of online CPUs is at least as large as its assigned number.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index ac487ea8d245..50015b78a43f 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -1400,6 +1400,8 @@ static int
 rcu_torture_reader(void *arg)
 {
 	unsigned long lastsleep = jiffies;
+	long myid = (long)arg;
+	int mynumonline = myid;
 	DEFINE_TORTURE_RANDOM(rand);
 	struct timer_list t;
 
@@ -1419,6 +1421,8 @@ rcu_torture_reader(void *arg)
 			schedule_timeout_interruptible(1);
 			lastsleep = jiffies + 10;
 		}
+		while (num_online_cpus() < mynumonline && !torture_must_stop())
+			schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ / 5);
 		stutter_wait("rcu_torture_reader");
 	} while (!torture_must_stop());
 	if (irqreader && cur_ops->irq_capable) {
@@ -2063,7 +2067,7 @@ static void rcu_test_debug_objects(void)
 static int __init
 rcu_torture_init(void)
 {
-	int i;
+	long i;
 	int cpu;
 	int firsterr = 0;
 	static struct rcu_torture_ops *torture_ops[] = {
@@ -2169,7 +2173,7 @@ rcu_torture_init(void)
 		goto unwind;
 	}
 	for (i = 0; i < nrealreaders; i++) {
-		firsterr = torture_create_kthread(rcu_torture_reader, NULL,
+		firsterr = torture_create_kthread(rcu_torture_reader, (void *)i,
 						  reader_tasks[i]);
 		if (firsterr)
 			goto unwind;
-- 
2.17.1