linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/7] rcu: Make rcutorture give diagnostics if CPU offline fails

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Date:	Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:54:31 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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	"Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@...aro.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/7] rcu: Make rcutorture give diagnostics if CPU offline fails

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@...aro.org>

This commit causes rcutorture to print the errno if cpu_down() fails
when the rcutorture "verbose" module parameter is specified.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcutorture.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcutorture.c
index aaa7b9f..9900f56 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutorture.c
@@ -1502,6 +1502,7 @@ rcu_torture_onoff(void *arg)
 	unsigned long delta;
 	int maxcpu = -1;
 	DEFINE_RCU_RANDOM(rand);
+	int ret;
 	unsigned long starttime;
 
 	VERBOSE_PRINTK_STRING("rcu_torture_onoff task started");
@@ -1522,7 +1523,13 @@ rcu_torture_onoff(void *arg)
 					 torture_type, cpu);
 			starttime = jiffies;
 			n_offline_attempts++;
-			if (cpu_down(cpu) == 0) {
+			ret = cpu_down(cpu);
+			if (ret) {
+				if (verbose)
+					pr_alert("%s" TORTURE_FLAG
+						 "rcu_torture_onoff task: offline %d failed: errno %d\n",
+						 torture_type, cpu, ret);
+			} else {
 				if (verbose)
 					pr_alert("%s" TORTURE_FLAG
 						 "rcu_torture_onoff task: offlined %d\n",
-- 
1.7.8

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