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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com,
	dvhart@linux.intel.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com,
	bobby.prani@gmail.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/5] documentation: Bring rcutorture parameters up to date
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:32:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1437175963-24681-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150717233224.GA24318@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

This commit changes the documentation of the rcutorture parameters to
better match reality.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 1d6f0459cd7b..01b5b68a237a 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3135,22 +3135,35 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			in a given burst of a callback-flood test.
 
 	rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
-			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts.
+			Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
+			in microseconds.
 
 	rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
-			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts.
+			Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
+			in microseconds.
 
 	rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
-			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts.
+			Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
+			in seconds.
+
+	rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
+			Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
+			primitives, if available.
 
 	rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
-			Use expedited update-side primitives.
+			Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
 
 	rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
-			Use normal (non-expedited) update-side primitives.
-			If both gp_exp and gp_normal are set, do both.
-			If neither gp_exp nor gp_normal are set, still
-			do both.
+			Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
+			update-side primitives, if available.
+
+	rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
+			Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
+			update-side primitives, if available.  If all
+			of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
+			rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
+			are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
+			they are all non-zero.
 
 	rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
 			Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
@@ -3177,9 +3190,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
 			zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
 
-	rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
-			Start rcutorture running at boot time.
-
 	rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
 			Set task-shuffle interval (s).  Shuffling tasks
 			allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
@@ -3220,6 +3230,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling.  See also the
 			rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
 
+	rcutorture.torture_runnable= [BOOT]
+			Start rcutorture running at boot time.
+
 	rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
 			Specify the RCU implementation to test.
 
-- 
1.8.1.5


  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-17 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-17 23:32 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation updates for 4.3 Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-17 23:32 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2015-07-17 23:32   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/5] documentation: Fix spelling of "operators" Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-17 23:32   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/5] documentation: Fix variable-name typo in memory-barriers.txt Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-17 23:32   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 4/5] documentation: Replace ACCESS_ONCE() by READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-17 23:32   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 5/5] doc: Call out smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() transitivity Paul E. McKenney

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