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<title>linux-stable.git/kernel/torture.c, branch v4.16.2</title>
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<title>torture: Save a line in stutter_wait(): while -&gt; for</title>
<updated>2017-12-11T17:18:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2017-11-22T06:07:59+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>torture: Eliminate torture_runnable and perf_runnable</title>
<updated>2017-12-11T17:18:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-22T04:19:17+00:00</published>
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The purpose of torture_runnable is to allow rcutorture and locktorture
to be started and stopped via sysfs when they are built into the kernel
(as in not compiled as loadable modules).  However, the 0444 permissions
for both instances of torture_runnable prevent this use case from ever
being put into practice.  Given that there have been no complaints
about this deficiency, it is reasonable to conclude that no one actually
makes use of this sysfs capability.  The perf_runnable module parameter
for rcuperf is in the same situation.

This commit therefore removes both torture_runnable instances as well
as perf_runnable.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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The purpose of torture_runnable is to allow rcutorture and locktorture
to be started and stopped via sysfs when they are built into the kernel
(as in not compiled as loadable modules).  However, the 0444 permissions
for both instances of torture_runnable prevent this use case from ever
being put into practice.  Given that there have been no complaints
about this deficiency, it is reasonable to conclude that no one actually
makes use of this sysfs capability.  The perf_runnable module parameter
for rcuperf is in the same situation.

This commit therefore removes both torture_runnable instances as well
as perf_runnable.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>torture: Make stutter less vulnerable to compilers and races</title>
<updated>2017-12-11T17:18:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2017-11-21T23:01:02+00:00</published>
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The stutter_wait() function repeatedly fetched stutter_pause_test, and
should really just fetch it once on each pass.  The races should be
harmless, but why have the races?  Also, the whole point of the value
"2" for stutter_pause_test is to get everyone to start at very nearly
the same time, but the value "2" was the first jiffy of the stutter
rather than the last jiffy of the stutter.

This commit rearranges the code to be more sensible.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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The stutter_wait() function repeatedly fetched stutter_pause_test, and
should really just fetch it once on each pass.  The races should be
harmless, but why have the races?  Also, the whole point of the value
"2" for stutter_pause_test is to get everyone to start at very nearly
the same time, but the value "2" was the first jiffy of the stutter
rather than the last jiffy of the stutter.

This commit rearranges the code to be more sensible.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>torture: Suppress CPU stall warnings during shutdown ftrace dump</title>
<updated>2017-11-28T23:54:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-04T18:23:10+00:00</published>
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The torture_shutdown() function directly invokes ftrace_dump(), which
can result in RCU CPU stall warnings when the ftrace buffer is large,
which it usually is.  This commit therefore invoks rcu_ftrace_dump()
in place of ftrace_dump(), suppressing RCU CPU stall warnings during
this time.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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The torture_shutdown() function directly invokes ftrace_dump(), which
can result in RCU CPU stall warnings when the ftrace buffer is large,
which it usually is.  This commit therefore invoks rcu_ftrace_dump()
in place of ftrace_dump(), suppressing RCU CPU stall warnings during
this time.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>torture: Fix typo suppressing CPU-hotplug statistics</title>
<updated>2017-07-25T20:04:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-22T22:38:26+00:00</published>
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The torture status line contains a series of values preceded by "onoff:".
The last value in that line, the one preceding the "HZ=" string, is
always zero.  The reason that it is always zero is that torture_offline()
was incrementing the sum_offl pointer instead of the value that this
pointer referenced.  This commit therefore makes this increment operate
on the statistic rather than the pointer to the statistic.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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The torture status line contains a series of values preceded by "onoff:".
The last value in that line, the one preceding the "HZ=" string, is
always zero.  The reason that it is always zero is that torture_offline()
was incrementing the sum_offl pointer instead of the value that this
pointer referenced.  This commit therefore makes this increment operate
on the statistic rather than the pointer to the statistic.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-01T15:36:40+00:00</published>
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scripts/spelling.txt: add "varible" pattern and fix typo instances</title>
<updated>2017-02-28T02:43:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-27T22:29:06+00:00</published>
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Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt:

  varible||variable

While we are here, tidy up the comment blocks that fit in a single line
for drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c and
net/sctp/transport.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-11-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt:

  varible||variable

While we are here, tidy up the comment blocks that fit in a single line
for drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c and
net/sctp/transport.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-11-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>torture: Convert torture_shutdown() to hrtimer</title>
<updated>2016-08-22T17:01:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-18T14:45:43+00:00</published>
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Upcoming changes to the timer wheel introduce significant inaccuracy
and possibly also an ultimate limit on timeout duration.  This is a
problem for the current implementation of torture_shutdown() because
(1) shutdown times are user-specified, and can therefore be quite long,
and (2) the torture scripting will kill a test instance that runs for
more than a few minutes longer than scheduled.  This commit therefore
converts the torture_shutdown() timed waits to an hrtimer, thus avoiding
too-short torture test runs as well as death by scripting.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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Upcoming changes to the timer wheel introduce significant inaccuracy
and possibly also an ultimate limit on timeout duration.  This is a
problem for the current implementation of torture_shutdown() because
(1) shutdown times are user-specified, and can therefore be quite long,
and (2) the torture scripting will kill a test instance that runs for
more than a few minutes longer than scheduled.  This commit therefore
converts the torture_shutdown() timed waits to an hrtimer, thus avoiding
too-short torture test runs as well as death by scripting.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>torture: Stop onoff task if there is only one cpu</title>
<updated>2016-06-14T23:03:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boqun Feng</name>
<email>boqun.feng@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-02T02:30:00+00:00</published>
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If the whole system has only one cpu, that cpu won't be able to be
offlined, so there is no need onoff task is stil running.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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If the whole system has only one cpu, that cpu won't be able to be
offlined, so there is no need onoff task is stil running.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>torture:  Break online and offline functions out of torture_onoff()</title>
<updated>2016-06-14T23:02:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-21T00:18:41+00:00</published>
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This commit breaks torture_online() and torture_offline() out of
torture_onoff() in preparation for allowing waketorture finer-grained
control of its CPU-hotplug workload.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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This commit breaks torture_online() and torture_offline() out of
torture_onoff() in preparation for allowing waketorture finer-grained
control of its CPU-hotplug workload.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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