linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/4] locktorture: Use private random-number generators

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Date:   Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:03:36 -0800
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, 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@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/4] locktorture: Use private random-number generators

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>

Both lock_torture_writer() and lock_torture_reader() use the "static"
keyword on their DEFINE_TORTURE_RANDOM(rand) declarations, which means
that a single instance of a random-number generator are shared among all
the writers and another is shared among all the readers.  Unfortunately,
this random-number generator was not designed for concurrent access.
This commit therefore removes both "static" keywords so that each reader
and each writer gets its own random-number generator.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/locking/locktorture.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/locktorture.c b/kernel/locking/locktorture.c
index 687c1d8..5baf904 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/locktorture.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/locktorture.c
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ static struct lock_torture_ops percpu_rwsem_lock_ops = {
 static int lock_torture_writer(void *arg)
 {
 	struct lock_stress_stats *lwsp = arg;
-	static DEFINE_TORTURE_RANDOM(rand);
+	DEFINE_TORTURE_RANDOM(rand);
 
 	VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("lock_torture_writer task started");
 	set_user_nice(current, MAX_NICE);
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ static int lock_torture_writer(void *arg)
 static int lock_torture_reader(void *arg)
 {
 	struct lock_stress_stats *lrsp = arg;
-	static DEFINE_TORTURE_RANDOM(rand);
+	DEFINE_TORTURE_RANDOM(rand);
 
 	VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("lock_torture_reader task started");
 	set_user_nice(current, MAX_NICE);
-- 
2.9.5