linux-kernel - [PATCH rcu 5/5] rcutorture: Avoid printing cpu=-1 for no-fault RCU boost failure

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Message-Id: <20241009180253.777965-5-paulmck@kernel.org>
Date: Wed,  9 Oct 2024 11:02:53 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To: frederic@...nel.org,
	rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...a.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH rcu 5/5] rcutorture: Avoid printing cpu=-1 for no-fault RCU boost failure

If a CPU runs throughout the stalled grace period without passing
through a quiescent state, RCU priority boosting cannot help.
The rcu_torture_boost_failed() function therefore prints a message
flagging the first such CPU.  However, if the stall was instead due to
(for example) RCU's grace-period kthread being starved of CPU, there will
be no such CPU, causing rcu_check_boost_fail() to instead pass back -1
through its cpup CPU-pointer parameter.

Therefore, the current message complains about a mythical CPU -1.

This commit therefore checks for this situation, and notes that all CPUs
have passed through a quiescent state.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index b4cb7623a8bfc..3ac8c69dd5bc9 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -1061,8 +1061,13 @@ static bool rcu_torture_boost_failed(unsigned long gp_state, unsigned long *star
 			// At most one persisted message per boost test.
 			j = jiffies;
 			lp = READ_ONCE(last_persist);
-			if (time_after(j, lp + mininterval) && cmpxchg(&last_persist, lp, j) == lp)
-				pr_info("Boost inversion persisted: No QS from CPU %d\n", cpu);
+			if (time_after(j, lp + mininterval) &&
+			    cmpxchg(&last_persist, lp, j) == lp) {
+				if (cpu < 0)
+					pr_info("Boost inversion persisted: QS from all CPUs\n");
+				else
+					pr_info("Boost inversion persisted: No QS from CPU %d\n", cpu);
+			}
 			return false; // passed on a technicality
 		}
 		VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("rcu_torture_boost boosting failed");
-- 
2.40.1