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Paul E. McKenney 2397d072f7 rcutorture: Handle extended read-side critical sections
This commit enables rcutorture to test whether RCU properly aggregates
different types of read-side critical sections into a larger section
covering the set.  It does this by extending an initial read-side
critical section randomly for a random number of extensions.  There is
a new rcu_torture_ops field ->extendable that specifies what extensions
are permitted for a given flavor of RCU (for example, SRCU does not
permit any extensions, while RCU-sched permits all types).  Note that
if a given operation (for example, local_bh_disable()) extends an RCU
read-side critical section, then rcutorture feels free to also start
and end the critical section with that operation's type of disabling.

Disabling operations include local_bh_disable(), local_irq_disable(),
and preempt_disable().  This commit also adds a new "busted_srcud"
torture type, which verifies rcutorture's ability to detect extensions
of RCU read-side critical sections that are not handled.  Gotta test
the test, after all!

Note that it is not legal to invoke local_bh_disable() with interrupts
disabled, and this transition is avoided by overriding the random-number
generator when it wants to call local_bh_disable() while interrupts
are disabled.  The code instead leaves both interrupts and bh/softirq
disabled in this case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
History 2018-07-12 15:42:05 -07:00
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