linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 13/13] rcutorture: Fix rcu

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Date:   Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:52:27 -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 13/13] rcutorture: Fix rcu_barrier successes counter

From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>

The rcutorture test module currently increments both successes and error
for the barrier test upon error, which results in misleading statistics
being printed.  This commit therefore changes the code to increment the
success counter only when the test actually passes.

This change was tested by by returning from the barrier callback without
incrementing the callback counter, thus introducing what appeared to
rcutorture to be rcu_barrier() failures.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index e3d2d4f1d928..bdc86cdf3b8b 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static long n_rcu_torture_boost_failure;
 static long n_rcu_torture_boosts;
 static atomic_long_t n_rcu_torture_timers;
 static long n_barrier_attempts;
-static long n_barrier_successes;
+static long n_barrier_successes; /* did rcu_barrier test succeed? */
 static atomic_long_t n_cbfloods;
 static struct list_head rcu_torture_removed;
 
@@ -1723,8 +1723,9 @@ static int rcu_torture_barrier(void *arg)
 			       atomic_read(&barrier_cbs_invoked),
 			       n_barrier_cbs);
 			WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+		} else {
+			n_barrier_successes++;
 		}
-		n_barrier_successes++;
 		schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ / 10);
 	} while (!torture_must_stop());
 	torture_kthread_stopping("rcu_torture_barrier");
@@ -1803,9 +1804,7 @@ static bool rcu_torture_can_boost(void)
 		if (boost_warn_once  == 1)
 			return false;
 
-		pr_alert("%s: WARN: RCU kthread priority too low to test boosting. "
-			 "Skipping RCU boost test. Try passing rcutree.kthread_prio > 1 "
-			 "on the kernel command line.\n", KBUILD_MODNAME);
+		pr_alert("%s: WARN: RCU kthread priority too low to test boosting.  Skipping RCU boost test. Try passing rcutree.kthread_prio > 1 on the kernel command line.\n", KBUILD_MODNAME);
 		boost_warn_once = 1;
 		return false;
 	}
-- 
2.17.1