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When rcutorture is built in to the kernel, an earlier patch detects that and raises the priority of RCU's kthreads to allow rcutorture's RCU priority boosting tests to succeed. However, if rcutorture is built as a module, those priorities must be raised manually via the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter. If this manual step is not taken, rcutorture's RCU priority boosting tests will fail due to kthread starvation. One approach would be to raise the default priority, but that risks breaking existing users. Another approach would be to allow runtime adjustment of RCU's kthread priorities, but that introduces numerous "interesting" race conditions. This patch therefore instead detects too-low priorities, and prints a message and disables the RCU priority boosting tests in that case. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.