rcu: Add random PROVE_RCU_DELAY to grace-period initialization Preemption greatly raised the probability of certain types of race conditions, so this commit adds an anti-heisenbug to greatly increase the collision cross section, also known as the probability of occurrence. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 145f27f..f0f3a18 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ #include <linux/prefetch.h> #include <linux/delay.h> #include <linux/stop_machine.h> +#include <linux/random.h> #include "rcutree.h" #include <trace/events/rcu.h> @@ -1087,6 +1088,10 @@ rnp->level, rnp->grplo, rnp->grphi, rnp->qsmask); raw_spin_unlock_irq(&rnp->lock); +#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY + if ((random32() % (rcu_num_nodes * 8)) == 0) + schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(2); +#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY */ cond_resched(); }