rcutorture: Forgive RCU boost failures when CPUs don't pass through QS

Currently, rcu_torture_boost() runs CPU-bound at real-time priority
to force RCU priority inversions.  It then checks that grace periods
progress during this CPU-bound time.  If grace periods fail to progress,
it reports and RCU priority boosting failure.

However, it is possible (and sometimes does happen) that the grace period
fails to progress due to a CPU failing to pass through a quiescent state
for an extended time period (3.5 seconds by default).  This can happen
due to vCPU preemption, long-running interrupts, and much else besides.
There is nothing that RCU priority boosting can do about these situations,
and so they should not be counted as RCU priority boosting failures.

This commit therefore checks for CPUs (as opposed to preempted tasks)
holding up a grace period, and flags the resulting RCU priority boosting
failures, but does not splat nor count them as errors.  It does rate-limit
them to avoid flooding the console log.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
index bf0827d4b659..daf0cd3f2926 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
@@ -519,6 +519,7 @@ static inline unsigned long rcu_exp_batches_completed(void) { return 0; }
 static inline unsigned long
 srcu_batches_completed(struct srcu_struct *sp) { return 0; }
 static inline void rcu_force_quiescent_state(void) { }
+static inline bool rcu_check_boost_fail(unsigned long gp_state, int *cpup) { return true; }
 static inline void show_rcu_gp_kthreads(void) { }
 static inline int rcu_get_gp_kthreads_prio(void) { return 0; }
 static inline void rcu_fwd_progress_check(unsigned long j) { }
@@ -527,6 +528,7 @@ bool rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs(int cpu, int *vp);
 unsigned long rcu_get_gp_seq(void);
 unsigned long rcu_exp_batches_completed(void);
 unsigned long srcu_batches_completed(struct srcu_struct *sp);
+bool rcu_check_boost_fail(unsigned long gp_state, int *cpup);
 void show_rcu_gp_kthreads(void);
 int rcu_get_gp_kthreads_prio(void);
 void rcu_fwd_progress_check(unsigned long j);