Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 30/41] rcutorture: Permit holding offCPU-hotplug operations during boot

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Feb 02 2012 - 12:58:06 EST


On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 09:43:00PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 11:41:48AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > When rcutorture is started automatically at boot time, it might well
> > also start CPU-hotplug operations at that time, which might not be
> > desirable. This commit therefore adds an rcutorture parameter that
> > allows CPU-hotplug operations to be held off for the specified number
> > of seconds after the start of boot.
> > --- a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
> > @@ -271,11 +278,13 @@ The following script may be used to torture RCU:
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > modprobe rcutorture
> > - sleep 100
> > + sleep 3600
> > rmmod rcutorture
> > dmesg | grep torture:
>
> This looks like an entirely unrelated change.

I suppose it is. I did split it out, though a one-line documentation change
seems a bit lightweight for a commit.

Thanx, Paul

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