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,
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"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
next prev parent 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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