Re: [PATCH] rcutorture: Select from only online CPUs

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Mar 26 2019 - 12:02:16 EST


On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 06:40:17PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 12:42 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 12:33:37PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:02 AM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:46:19PM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> > > > > The rcutorture jitter.sh script selects a random CPU but does not check
> > > > > if it is offline or online. This leads to taskset errors many times. On
> > > > > my machine, hyper threading is disabled so half the cores are offline
> > > > > causing taskset errors a lot of times. Let us fix this by checking from
> > > > > only the online CPUs on the system.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Good catch!
> > > >
> > > > Please see below for one suggestion for simplification.
> > > >
> > > > Thanx, Paul
> > > >
> > > > > ---
> > > > > tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/jitter.sh | 11 ++++++++++-
> > > > > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/jitter.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/jitter.sh
> > > > > index 3633828375e3..53bf9d99b5cd 100755
> > > > > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/jitter.sh
> > > > > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/jitter.sh
> > > > > @@ -47,10 +47,19 @@ do
> > > > > exit 0;
> > > > > fi
> > > > >
> > > > > - # Set affinity to randomly selected CPU
> > > > > + # Set affinity to randomly selected online CPU
> > > > > cpus=`ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/*/online |
> > > >
> > > > cpus=`grep 1 /sys/devices/system/cpu/*/online |
> > >
> > > Yes, this is better. Lets do it this way :)
> > >
> > > > > sed -e 's,/[^/]*$,,' -e 's/^[^0-9]*//' |
> > > > > grep -v '^0*$'`
> > > >
> > > > Of course, now I have no idea why I excluded CPU 0... :-/
> > >
> > > Yes, I was wondering as well about that :-)
> >
> > Please feel free to try including CPU 0 and running the set of single-CPU
> > rcutorture scenarios. ;-)
>
> Will do and then will update the patch by adding the CPU back, if all
> is well. Thanks.

And rcutorture doesn't like the rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() patch on
scenarios SRCU-P, TASKS01, and TREE05, which are the Tree RCU scenarios
that enable CONFIG_PROVE_RCU. The compiler error is:

kernel/rcu/tree.c:391:2: error: implicit declaration of function â_this_cpu_readâ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

My guess is that the initial underscore needs to go. I will drop
these two patches in favor of an update from you. ;-)

Thanx, Paul