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Paul E. McKenney
33595581f5 torture: Update initrd documentation
The rcu-test-image.txt documentation covers a very uncommon case where
a real userspace environment is required.  However, someone reading this
document might reasonably conclude that this is in fact a prerequisite.
In addition, the initrd.txt file mentions dracut, which is no longer used.
This commit therefore provides the needed updates.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-08-24 18:45:33 -07:00
Alexander A. Klimov
afcdf2319d rcutorture: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
  If not .svg:
    For each line:
      If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
        For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
	  If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
            If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
            return 200 OK and serve the same content:
              Replace HTTP with HTTPS.

Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-08-24 18:45:32 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
9f8ba55d49 rcutorture: Remove CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n from scenarios
A number of mainstream CPU families are no longer capable of building
kernels having CONFIG_SMP=y and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n, so this commit
removes this combination from the rcutorture scenarios having it.
People wishing to try out this combination may still do so using the
"--kconfig CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n CONFIG_SUSPEND=n CONFIG_HIBERNATION=n"
argument to the tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh script
that is used to run rcutorture.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2019-10-05 11:49:13 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
38e630424b rcutorture: Add initrd support for systems lacking dracut
The support for creating initrd directories using dracut is a great
improvement over having to always hand-create them, it is a bit annoying
to have to install some otherwise irrelevant package just to be able to
run rcutorture.  This commit therefore adds support for creating initrd
directories on systems innocent of dracut.  You do need gcc, but then
again you need that to build the kernel (or to build llvm) in any case.

The idea is to create an initrd directory containing nothing but a
statically linked binary having a for-loop over a long-term sleep().
The result is a Linux kernel with almost no userspace: even the
time-honored /dev, /lib, /tmp, and /usr directories are gone.  In fact,
the only directory present is "/", but only because I don't know how to
get rid of it, at least short of not having an initrd in the first place.
Although statically linked binaries are much maligned, and rightly so,
their disadvantages seem to be irrelevant for this particular use case.
From https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/no_static_linking.html:

1.	Fixes are difficult to apply to hordes of widely scattered
	statically linked binaries.  But in this case, there is only one
	binary, but there would otherwise be no fewer than four libraries.

2.	Security measures like local address randomization cannot be used.
	Prudence prevents me from asserting that it is impossible to
	base a remote attack on a networking-free rcutorture instance.
	Nevertheless, bonus points to the first person who comes up with
	such an attack!

3.	More efficient use of physical memory.  Not in this case, given
	that libc is 1.8MB and the statically linked binary "only" 800K.

4.	Features such as locales, name service switch (NSS),
	internationalized domain names (IDN) tool, and so on require
	dynamic linking.  Bonus points to the first person coming up
	with a valid rcutorture use case requiring these features in
	its initrd.

5.	Accidental violations of (L)GPL.  Actually, this change actually
	helps -avoid- such violations by reducing the temptation to
	pass around tarballs of rcutorture-ready initrd directories.
	After all, the rcutorture scripts automatically create an initrd
	directory for you, so why bother with the tarballs?

6.	Tools and hacks like ltrace, LD_PRELOAD, LD_PROFILE, and LD_AUDIT
	don't work.  Again, bonus points to the first person coming up
	with a valid rcutorture use case requiring these features in
	its initrd.

Nevertheless, the script will use dracut if available, and will create the
statically linked binary only when dracut are missing.  Those preferring
the smaller initrd directory resulting from the statically linked binary
(like me) are free to hand-edit mkinitrd.sh to remove the code using
dracut.  ;-)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-11-08 21:52:55 -08:00
Lihao Liang
f4f2cf8bd8 doc: Fix typo in rcutorture documentation
Signed-off-by: Lihao Liang <lianglihao@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-02-20 16:10:19 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
7e42776d5e rcu: Drive TASKS_RCU directly off of PREEMPT
The actual use of TASKS_RCU is only when PREEMPT, otherwise RCU-sched
is used instead.  This commit therefore makes synchronize_rcu_tasks()
and call_rcu_tasks() available always, but mapped to synchronize_sched()
and call_rcu_sched(), respectively, when !PREEMPT.  This approach also
allows some #ifdefs to be removed from rcutorture.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-17 07:26:04 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
44c65ff2e3 rcu: Eliminate NOCBs CPU-state Kconfig options
The CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL, CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE, and
CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO Kconfig options are used only in testing and
are redundant with the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.  This commit therefore
removes these three Kconfig options and adjusts the rcutorture scripts
to use the boot parameter instead.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08 18:52:43 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
ae91aa0adb rcu: Remove debugfs tracing
RCU's debugfs tracing used to be the only reasonable low-level debug
information available, but ftrace and event tracing has since surpassed
the RCU debugfs level of usefulness.  This commit therefore removes
RCU's debugfs tracing.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08 18:52:43 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
41a2901e7d rcu: Remove SPARSE_RCU_POINTER Kconfig option
The sparse-based checking for non-RCU accesses to RCU-protected pointers
has been around for a very long time, and it is now the only type of
sparse-based checking that is optional.  This commit therefore makes
it unconditional.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2017-06-08 18:52:41 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
c4a09ff752 rcu: Remove the now-obsolete PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option
The PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option was initially added due to
the volume of messages from PROVE_RCU: Doing just one per boot would
have required excessive numbers of boots to locate them all.  However,
PROVE_RCU messages are now relatively rare, so there is no longer any
reason to need more than one such message per boot.  This commit therefore
removes the PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-08 18:52:41 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
fe5ac724d8 rcu: Remove nohz_full full-system-idle state machine
The NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE full-system-idle capability was added in 2013
by commit 0edd1b1784 ("nohz_full: Add full-system-idle state machine"),
but has not been used.  This commit therefore removes it.

If it turns out to be needed later, this commit can always be reverted.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-06-08 18:52:39 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
f7a10a9750 rcu: Remove the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig option
Anything that can be done with the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig option can
also be done with the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter.
This commit therefore removes this Kconfig option.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
2017-06-08 18:52:39 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
90040c9e30 rcu: Remove *_SLOW_* Kconfig options
The RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY,
RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT,
RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP,
and RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY Kconfig options are only
useful for torture testing, and there are the rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay,
rcutree.gp_init_delay, and rcutree.gp_preinit_delay kernel boot parameters
that rcutorture can use instead.  The effect of these parameters is to
artificially slow down grace period initialization and cleanup in order
to make some types of race conditions happen more often.

This commit therefore simplifies Tree RCU a bit by removing the Kconfig
options and adding the corresponding kernel parameters to rcutorture's
.boot files instead.  However, this commit also leaves out the kernel
parameters for TREE02, TREE04, and TREE07 in order to have about the
same number of tests slowed as not slowed.  TREE01, TREE03, TREE05,
and TREE06 are slowed, and the rest are not slowed.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08 18:52:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
b1c14a39ad torture: Update RCU test scenario documentation
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2017-01-14 21:35:59 -08:00
Boqun Feng
e5731b584b rcutorture/doc: Create initrd using dracut
Using dracut is another way to get an initramfs for KVM-based RCU
torture tests, which is more flexible than using the host's initramfs
image, because modules and binaries may be added or removed via dracut
command options. So add an example in the document, in case that there
are some situations where host's initramfs couldn't be used.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-06-14 16:03:28 -07:00
Yang Shi
91bf6a83e5 rcutorture: Remove CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS from rcutorture selftest doc
Commit d1ec4c34c7 ("rcu: Drop RCU_USER_QS in favor of NO_HZ_FULL") has
removed RCU_USER_QS from Kconfig file, so remove it from some documents
to avoid any confusion.

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-12-05 17:58:16 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
75c27f119b rcu: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
The CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO has been default-y for a couple of
releases with no complaints, so it is time to eliminate this Kconfig
option entirely, so that the long-form RCU CPU stall warnings cannot
be disabled.  This commit does just that.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-17 14:58:44 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
ccd60ad3f8 rcutorture: Update TREE_RCU-kconfig.txt
This commit updates TREE_RCU-kconfig.txt to reflect changes in RCU's
Kconfig setup.  This commit also updates rcutorture's Kconfig fragments
to account for Kconfig parameters that are now driven directly off of
other Kconfig parameters.

The #CHECK# prefix tells the rcutorture scripts to take no action to try
to set the Kconfig parameter, but to check that it does in fact get set.
This is useful for verifying that Kconfig parameters that are supposed
to be automatically set do in fact get set to the required values.

Reported-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-05-27 13:00:00 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
9ea6c58856 Merge branches 'torture.2014.11.03a', 'cpu.2014.11.03a', 'doc.2014.11.13a', 'fixes.2014.11.13a', 'signal.2014.10.29a' and 'rt.2014.10.29a' into HEAD
cpu.2014.11.03a: Changes for per-CPU variables.
doc.2014.11.13a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2014.11.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.
signal.2014.10.29a: Signal changes.
rt.2014.10.29a: Real-time changes.
torture.2014.11.03a: torture-test changes.
2014-11-13 10:39:04 -08:00
Pranith Kumar
28f6569ab7 rcu: Remove redundant TREE_PREEMPT_RCU config option
PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU serve the same function after
TINY_PREEMPT_RCU has been removed. This patch removes TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
and uses PREEMPT_RCU config option in its place.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-29 10:20:05 -07:00
Clark Williams
21871d7eff rcu: Unify boost and kthread priorities
Rename CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_PRIO to CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO and use this
value for both the per-CPU kthreads (rcuc/N) and the rcu boosting
threads (rcub/n).

Also, create the module_parameter rcutree.kthread_prio to be used on
the kernel command line at boot to set a new value (rcutree.kthread_prio=N).

Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Ported to rcu/dev, applied Paul Bolle and Peter Zijlstra feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-29 10:19:41 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
0eafa46823 rcu: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
The CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE Kconfig parameter causes preemptible
RCU's CPU stall warnings to dump out any preempted tasks that are blocking
the current RCU grace period.  This information is useful, and the default
has been CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y for some years.  It is therefore
time for this commit to remove this Kconfig parameter, so that future
kernel builds will always act as if CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-28 13:48:13 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
616fd166f6 rcu: Add step to initrd documentation
This commit tries to get people into the correct directory before
creating the initrd directory.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-09-07 16:24:43 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
11992c703a rcu: Remove CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY
The CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY Kconfig parameter doesn't appear to be very
effective at finding race conditions, so this commit removes it.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
[ paulmck: Remove definition and uses as noted by Paul Bolle. ]
2014-07-09 09:15:31 -07:00
Paul Bolle
48a21d5cf0 rcutorture: Rename TREE_RCU-Kconfig.txt
It used to be that:

    git ls-files "*Kconfig*"

would find all Kconfig files and would only find Kconfig files. This
commit renames TREE_RCU-Kconfig.txt to TREE_RCU-kconfig.txt so that this
is once again true.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:04:41 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
0f66f92d11 rcutorture: Refactor TINY_RCU test cases
The TINY_RCU test cases were first put in place many years ago, and have
been incrementally modified rather than being reworked.  This commit
therefore completes a long-overdue reworking of the TINY_RCU test cases.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-03 10:11:13 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
27ac1ddf21 rcutorture: Refactor TREE_RCU test cases
The TREE_RCU test cases were first put in place many years ago, and have
been incrementally modified rather than being reworked.  This commit
therefore completes a long-overdue reworking of the TREE_RCU test cases.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-03 10:11:13 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
c87b9c601a rcutorture: Add KVM-based test framework
This commit adds the test framework that I used to test RCU under KVM.
This consists of a group of scripts and Kconfig fragments.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-03 10:11:10 -08:00