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Chen Gang d100895086 rcu/torture: Dynamically allocate SRCU output buffer to avoid overflow

If the rcutorture SRCU output exceeds 4096 bytes, for example, if you
have more than about 75 CPUs, it will overflow the current statically
allocated buffer.  This commit therefore replaces this static buffer
with a dynamically buffer whose size is based on the number of CPUs.

Benefits:

 - Avoids both buffer overflow and output truncation.
 - Handles an arbitrarily large number of CPUs.
 - Straightforward implementation.

Shortcomings:

 - Some memory is wasted:

   1 cpu now comsumes 50 - 60 bytes, and this patch provides 200 bytes.
   Therefore, for 1K CPUs, roughly 100KB of memory will be wasted.
   However, the memory is freed immediately after printing, so this
   wastage should not be a problem in practice.

Testing (Fedora16 2 CPUs, 2GB RAM x86_64):

 - as module, with/without "torture_type=srcu".
 - build-in not boot runnable, with/without "torture_type=srcu".
 - build-in let boot runnable, with/without "torture_type=srcu".

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

2013-12-12 12:34:16 -08:00

Makefile

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rcu.h

rcu: Provide better diagnostics for blocking in RCU callback functions

2013-12-09 15:12:39 -08:00

srcu.c

rcu: Improve SRCU's grace-period comments

2013-12-09 15:12:38 -08:00

tiny_plugin.h

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tiny.c