In one of my rcutorture tests the TSC clocksource got marked unstable
due to a large difference in the TSC value. I'm not sure if the guest
run for a long time with disabled interrupts or if the host was very
busy and didn't schedule the guest for some time.
I took a look on the qemu/KVM options and decided to update the options:
- Use kvm{32|64} as CPU. We could probably use `host' (like ARM does)
for maximum available features but since we don't run any userland I'm
not sure if it makes any difference.
- Drop the "noapic" option. There is no history why the APIC was disabled,
I see no reason for it. Once old qemu versions fade away, we can add
"x2apic=on,tsc-deadline=on,hypervisor=on,tsc_adjust=on".
- Additional config options. It ensures that the kernel knowns that it
runs as a kvm guest and can use virt devices like the kvm-clock as
clocksource. The kvm-clock was the main motivation here.
- I didn't add a random HW device. It would make the random device ready
earlier (not it doesn't complete the initialisation at all) but I
doubt that there is any need for this.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ paulmck: The world is not quite ready for CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS=y
and x2apic, so they are omitted for the time being. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Replace the license boiler plate with a SPDX license identifier.
While in the area, update an email address and add copyright notices.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit adds support of the qemu command qemu-system-aarch64
to rcutorture.
Signed-off-by: Lihao Liang <lianglihao@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The maxcpus= kernel boot parameter limits the number of CPUs brought
online at boot time, but it does nothing to prevent additional CPUs
from being brought up later. Placing a hard cap on the total number
of CPUs is instead the job of the nr_cpus= boot parameter. This commit
therefore switches the configfrag_boot_cpus() shell function from maxcpus=
to nr_cpus=. This commit also adds a nr_cpus=43 kernel parameter to RCU's
TREE01 test scenario, but retains the maxcpus=8 kernel parameter in order
to test the ability of RCU expedited grace periods to handle new CPUs
coming online for the first time during grace-period initialization.
Finally, this commit makes the torture scheduling allow maxcpus= to
override other means of specifying the number of CPUs to allow for.
This last works because the torture kernel modules size their workloads
based on the number of CPUs present at the start of the test, not the
ultimate number of CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Because recent testing shows that "-soundhw pcspkr" is no longer required
in the kernel boot arguments, this commit drops this qemu argument.
Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Do not restrict the cpu type to POWER7 for QEMU as we have POWER8 now.
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The option "-soundhw pcspk" gives me a error on PPC as follow:
qemu-system-ppc64: ISA bus not available for pcspk
This means this option doesn't work on ppc by default. So simply make
this an x86-specific option via identify_qemu_args().
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The vmlinux image is available for all the architectures, and suitable
for running a KVM guest by QEMU, besides, we used to copy the vmlinux
to $resdir anyway. Therefore it makes sense to use it as the fallback
kernel image for rcutorture KVM tests.
This patch makes identify_boot_image() return vmlinux if
${TORTURE_BOOT_IMAGE} is not set on non-x86 architectures, also fixes
several places that hard-code "bzImage" as $KERNEL.
This also fixes a problem that PPC doesn't have a bzImage file as build
results.
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Setting CONFIG_MAXSMP=y causes cpumasks to be moved offstack, which
introduces the possibility of NULL cpumask_var_t pointers. This commit
therefore enables CONFIG_MAXSMP=y in TREE01 to increase test coverage.
However, because CONFIG_MAXSMP=y implies 8192 CPUs, we need to use
the maxcpus= boot parameter to limit the number of CPUs to something
reasonable, which in turn requires updating the scripts to handle this.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Currently, the scripts hard-code arch/x86/boot/bzImage, which does not
work well for other architectures. This commit therefore provides a
identify_boot_image function that selects the correct bzImage location
relative to the top of the Linux source tree. This commit also adds a
--bootimage argument that allows selecting some other file, for example,
"vmlinux".
This change requires that the definition of the QEMU variable be
computed earlier in order to identify where to look for the boot image
when it comes time to copy it to the results directory.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit makes the torture scripts a bit more RCU-independent.
It also removes a redundant export of this same shell variable.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit makes the torture scripts a bit more RCU-independent.
It also drops an redundant "export" statement.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit makes the torture scripts a bit more RCU-independent.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The rcutorture tests run by default range from using one CPU to using
sixteen of them. Therefore, rcutorture testing could be sped up
significantly simply by running the kernels in parallel. Building
them in parallel is not all that helpful: "make -j" is usually a
better bet. So this commit takes a new "--cpus" argument that
specifies how many CPUs rcutorture is permitted to use for its
parallel runs. The default of zero does sequential runs as before.
The bin-packing is minimal, and will be grossly suboptimal for
some configurations. However, powers of two work reasonably well.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
All of the rcutorture scripts has the usual GPL header, which contains
a long-obsolete postal address for FSF. To avoid the need to track the
FSF office's movements, this commit substitutes the URL where GPL may
be found.
Reported-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The output of the rcutorture scripts often requires interpretation, so
this commit simplifies this interpretation by tagging messages as
BUGs (colored red) or WARNINGs (colored yellow).
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit expands the checks for what architecture is running to generate
additional qemu-system- commands, then uses the resulting qemu-system-
command name to choose different qemu arguments as needed for different
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The task of working out which flavor of qemu to use gets more complex
as more types of CPUs are supported. Adding Power makes three in addition
to 32-bit and 64-bit x86, so it is time to pull this out into a function.
This commit therefore creates an identify_qemu function and also adds
a --qemu-cmd command-line argument for the inevitable case where the
identify_qemu cannot figure it out.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Some Kconfig fragments require rcutorture module parameters to
do optimal testing, for example, a configuration for SRCU would
need rcutorture.torture_type=srcu. This commit therefore adds a
per-Kconfig-fragment boot-parameter capability.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Different Kconfig parameters apply to different kernel versions, as
do different rcutorture module parameters. This commit allows the
rcutorture test scripts to adjust for different kernel versions.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit adds the test framework that I used to test RCU under KVM.
This consists of a group of scripts and Kconfig fragments.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior