1This document gives a brief rationale for the TREE_RCU-related test
2cases, a group that includes PREEMPT_RCU.
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4
5Kconfig Parameters:
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7CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC -- Do three, covering CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING & not.
8CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD -- Do one.
9CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU -- Do half.  (Every second.)
10CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC -- Do one.
11CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE -- Do those not otherwise specified. (Groups of two.)
12CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL -- Do two, one with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE.
13CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE -- Do one.
14CONFIG_PREEMPT -- Do half.  (First three and #8.)
15CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING -- Do several, covering CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y and not.
16CONFIG_PROVE_RCU -- Hardwired to CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING.
17CONFIG_RCU_BOOST -- one of PREEMPT_RCU.
18CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO -- set to 2 for _BOOST testing.
19CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT -- Cover hierarchy, but overlap with others.
20CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF -- Do one non-default.
21CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ -- Do one, but not with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL.
22CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU -- Do three, see below.
23CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL -- Do one.
24CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE -- Do one.
25CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO -- Do one.
26CONFIG_RCU_TRACE -- Do half.
27CONFIG_SMP -- Need one !SMP for PREEMPT_RCU.
28!RCU_EXPERT -- Do a few, but these have to be vanilla configurations.
29RCU-bh: Do one with PREEMPT and one with !PREEMPT.
30RCU-sched: Do one with PREEMPT but not BOOST.
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33Boot parameters:
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35nohz_full - do at least one.
36maxcpu -- do at least one.
37rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh -- Do at least one each, offloaded and not.
38rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched -- Do at least one each, offloaded and not.
39rcupdate.rcu_self_test -- Do at least one each, offloaded and not.
40rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact -- Do at least one.
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43Kconfig Parameters Ignored:
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45CONFIG_64BIT
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47	Used only to check CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT value, inspection suffices.
48
49CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE_SMALL
50
51	Defer until Frederic uses this.
52
53CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT
54CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
55
56	Redundant with CONFIG_PREEMPT, ignore.
57
58CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_DELAY
59
60	Inspection suffices, ignore.
61
62CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
63
64	Inspection suffices, ignore.
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66CONFIG_RCU_STALL_COMMON
67
68	Implied by TREE_RCU and PREEMPT_RCU.
69
70CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST
71CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
72
73	Always used in KVM testing.
74
75CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
76
77	Redundant with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL.
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79CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
80CONFIG_TREE_RCU
81
82	These are controlled by CONFIG_PREEMPT.
83