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    rcu: make rcutorture more vicious: add stutter feature · d120f65f
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    
    
    This patch takes a step towards making rcutorture more brutal by allowing
    the test to be automatically periodically paused, with the default being
    to run the test for five seconds then pause for five seconds and repeat.
    This behavior can be controlled using a new "stutter" module parameter, so
    that "stutter=0" gives the old default behavior of running continuously.
    
    Starting and stopping rcutorture more heavily stresses RCU's interaction
    with the scheduler, as well as exercising more paths through the
    grace-period detection code.
    
    Note that the default to "shuffle_interval" has also been adjusted from
    5 seconds to 3 seconds to provide varying overlap with the "stutter"
    interval.
    
    I am still unable to provoke the failures that Alexey has been seeing,
    even with this patch, but will be doing a few additional things to beef
    up rcutorture.
    
    Suggested-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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