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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>2006-06-27 02:54:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-27 17:32:40 -0700
commit29766f1eb3d8d6cfaf1d6623fb4c3f7e5a822fe4 (patch)
treee356c483e332f2a688d5d9e8edfb7e7a6729af44
parent1dbe83c3445a1604546620a60888cf26b63f8782 (diff)
downloadlinux-29766f1eb3d8d6cfaf1d6623fb4c3f7e5a822fe4.tar.gz
[PATCH] rcutorture: catchup doc fixes for idle-hz tests
This just catches the RCU torture documentation up with the recent fixes
that test RCU for architectures that turn of the scheduling-clock interrupt
for idle CPUs and the addition of a SUCCESS/FAILURE indication, fixing up
an obsolete comment as well.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/torture.txt12
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutorture.c2
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
index e4c38152f7f7..d896685a9100 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
@@ -35,6 +35,15 @@ stat_interval	The number of seconds between output of torture
 		be printed -only- when the module is unloaded, and this
 		is the default.
 
+shuffle_interval
+		The number of seconds to keep the test threads affinitied
+		to a particular subset of the CPUs.  Used in conjunction
+		with test_no_idle_hz.
+
+test_no_idle_hz	Whether or not to test the ability of RCU to operate in
+		a kernel that disables the scheduling-clock interrupt to
+		idle CPUs.  Boolean parameter, "1" to test, "0" otherwise.
+
 verbose		Enable debug printk()s.  Default is disabled.
 
 
@@ -119,4 +128,5 @@ The following script may be used to torture RCU:
 
 The output can be manually inspected for the error flag of "!!!".
 One could of course create a more elaborate script that automatically
-checked for such errors.
+checked for such errors.  The "rmmod" command forces a "SUCCESS" or
+"FAILURE" indication to be printk()ed.
diff --git a/kernel/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcutorture.c
index 8154e7589d12..2a65bd8a3d10 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutorture.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Read-Copy Update /proc-based torture test facility
+ * Read-Copy Update module-based torture test facility
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by