torture: Periodically pause in stutter_wait()
Running locktorture scenario LOCK05 results in hangs: tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --allcpus --torture lock --duration 3 --configs LOCK05 The lock_torture_writer() kthreads set themselves to MAX_NICE while running SCHED_OTHER. Other locktorture kthreads run at default niceness, also SCHED_OTHER. This results in these other locktorture kthreads indefinitely preempting the lock_torture_writer() kthreads. Note that the cond_resched() in the stutter_wait() function's loop is ineffective because this scenario is built with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y. It is not clear that such indefinite preemption is supposed to happen, but in the meantime this commit prevents kthreads running in stutter_wait() from being completely CPU-bound, thus allowing the other threads to get some CPU in a timely fashion. This commit also uses hrtimers to provide very short sleeps to avoid degrading the sudden-on testing that stutter is supposed to provide. Reviewed-by:Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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