documentation: Catch up list of torture_type options
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:46:00 +0000 (11:46 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 6 Oct 2015 18:22:48 +0000 (11:22 -0700)
This commit rids the documentation of long-obsolete torture_type options
such as rcu_sync and adds new ones such as tasks.  Also add verbiage
noting the fact that rcutorture now concurrently tests the asynchrounous,
synchronous, expedited synchronous, and polling grace-period primitives.

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Documentation/RCU/torture.txt

index dac02a6219b1cae3c657512b293b957627cec830..118e7c176ce76aaca534c50fe7fe01da1cb3b710 100644 (file)
@@ -166,40 +166,27 @@ test_no_idle_hz   Whether or not to test the ability of RCU to operate in
 
 torture_type   The type of RCU to test, with string values as follows:
 
-               "rcu":  rcu_read_lock(), rcu_read_unlock() and call_rcu().
-
-               "rcu_sync":  rcu_read_lock(), rcu_read_unlock(), and
-                       synchronize_rcu().
-
-               "rcu_expedited": rcu_read_lock(), rcu_read_unlock(), and
-                       synchronize_rcu_expedited().
+               "rcu":  rcu_read_lock(), rcu_read_unlock() and call_rcu(),
+                       along with expedited, synchronous, and polling
+                       variants.
 
                "rcu_bh": rcu_read_lock_bh(), rcu_read_unlock_bh(), and
-                       call_rcu_bh().
-
-               "rcu_bh_sync": rcu_read_lock_bh(), rcu_read_unlock_bh(),
-                       and synchronize_rcu_bh().
+                       call_rcu_bh(), along with expedited and synchronous
+                       variants.
 
-               "rcu_bh_expedited": rcu_read_lock_bh(), rcu_read_unlock_bh(),
-                       and synchronize_rcu_bh_expedited().
+               "rcu_busted": This tests an intentionally incorrect version
+                       of RCU in order to help test rcutorture itself.
 
                "srcu": srcu_read_lock(), srcu_read_unlock() and
-                       call_srcu().
-
-               "srcu_sync": srcu_read_lock(), srcu_read_unlock() and
-                       synchronize_srcu().
-
-               "srcu_expedited": srcu_read_lock(), srcu_read_unlock() and
-                       synchronize_srcu_expedited().
+                       call_srcu(), along with expedited and
+                       synchronous variants.
 
                "sched": preempt_disable(), preempt_enable(), and
-                       call_rcu_sched().
-
-               "sched_sync": preempt_disable(), preempt_enable(), and
-                       synchronize_sched().
+                       call_rcu_sched(), along with expedited,
+                       synchronous, and polling variants.
 
-               "sched_expedited": preempt_disable(), preempt_enable(), and
-                       synchronize_sched_expedited().
+               "tasks": voluntary context switch and call_rcu_tasks(),
+                       along with expedited and synchronous variants.
 
                Defaults to "rcu".