linux-kernel - [PATCH rcu 2/7] rcutorture: Preempt rather than block when testing task stalls

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Date:   Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:04:36 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.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 rcu 2/7] rcutorture: Preempt rather than block when testing task stalls

Currently, rcu_torture_stall() does a one-jiffy timed wait when
stall_cpu_block is set.  This works, but emits a pointless splat in
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels.  This commit avoids this splat by instead
invoking preempt_schedule() in CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels.

This uses an admittedly ugly #ifdef, but abstracted approaches just
looked worse.  A prettier approach would provide a preempt_schedule()
definition with a WARN_ON() for CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels, but this seems
quite silly.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index 40ef5417d9545..ab4215266ebee 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -2022,8 +2022,13 @@ static int rcu_torture_stall(void *args)
 			  __func__, raw_smp_processor_id());
 		while (ULONG_CMP_LT((unsigned long)ktime_get_seconds(),
 				    stop_at))
-			if (stall_cpu_block)
+			if (stall_cpu_block) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPTION
+				preempt_schedule();
+#else
 				schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ);
+#endif
+			}
 		if (stall_cpu_irqsoff)
 			local_irq_enable();
 		else if (!stall_cpu_block)
-- 
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23