rcutorture: Add irqs-disabled test for call_rcu()
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:40:44 +0000 (11:40 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:47:04 +0000 (13:47 -0700)
Mutation testing carried out by Iftekhar Ahmed of Oregon State
University showed that rcutorture is failing to test invocations
of call_rcu() having interrupts disabled.  This commit therefore
adds interrupt disabling around one of the existing invocations
of call_rcu() (and friends).

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c

index 633a68a..084a28a 100644 (file)
@@ -1478,7 +1478,9 @@ static int rcu_torture_barrier_cbs(void *arg)
                 * The above smp_load_acquire() ensures barrier_phase load
                 * is ordered before the folloiwng ->call().
                 */
+               local_irq_disable(); /* Just to test no-irq call_rcu(). */
                cur_ops->call(&rcu, rcu_torture_barrier_cbf);
+               local_irq_enable();
                if (atomic_dec_and_test(&barrier_cbs_count))
                        wake_up(&barrier_wq);
        } while (!torture_must_stop());