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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2010-01-14 16:10:57 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-01-16 10:25:22 +0100 |
| commit | 4c54005ca438a8b46dd542b497d4f0dc2ca375e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 4274fb9dcbd94480b93fecefcf83969db53461ba /Documentation/RCU/torture.txt | |
| parent | b6407e863934965cdc66cbc244d811ceeb6f4d77 (diff) | |
rcu: 1Q2010 update for RCU documentation
Add expedited functions. Review documentation and update
obsolete verbiage. Also fix the advice for the RCU CPU-stall
kernel configuration parameter, and document RCU CPU-stall
warnings.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt index 9dba3bb90e60..0e50bc2aa1e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt @@ -30,6 +30,18 @@ MODULE PARAMETERS This module has the following parameters: +fqs_duration Duration (in microseconds) of artificially induced bursts + of force_quiescent_state() invocations. In RCU + implementations having force_quiescent_state(), these + bursts help force races between forcing a given grace + period and that grace period ending on its own. + +fqs_holdoff Holdoff time (in microseconds) between consecutive calls + to force_quiescent_state() within a burst. + +fqs_stutter Wait time (in seconds) between consecutive bursts + of calls to force_quiescent_state(). + irqreaders Says to invoke RCU readers from irq level. This is currently done via timers. Defaults to "1" for variants of RCU that permit this. (Or, more accurately, variants of RCU that do |