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authorJohn Stultz <jstultz@google.com>2023-09-22 04:35:59 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2023-09-22 09:43:40 +0200
commit4812c54dc0498c4b757cbc7f41c1999b5a1c9f67 (patch)
tree224042a8312d473a7d31ba30dc36b2b04036ed27 /kernel/locking
parent0f4b5f972216782a4acb1ae00dcb55173847c2ff (diff)
locking/ww_mutex/test: Use prng instead of rng to avoid hangs at bootup
Booting w/ qemu without kvm, and with 64 cpus, I noticed we'd sometimes hung task watchdog splats in get_random_u32_below() when using the test-ww_mutex stress test. While entropy exhaustion is no longer an issue, the RNG may be slower early in boot. The test-ww_mutex code will spawn off 128 threads (2x cpus) and each thread will call get_random_u32_below() a number of times to generate a random order of the 16 locks. This intense use takes time and without kvm, qemu can be slow enough that we trip the hung task watchdogs. For this test, we don't need true randomness, just mixed up orders for testing ww_mutex lock acquisitions, so it changes the logic to use the prng instead, which takes less time and avoids the watchdgos. Feedback would be appreciated! Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230922043616.19282-2-jstultz@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/test-ww_mutex.c19
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/test-ww_mutex.c b/kernel/locking/test-ww_mutex.c
index 93cca6e69860..9bceba65858a 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/test-ww_mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/test-ww_mutex.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/prandom.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/ww_mutex.h>
@@ -386,6 +386,19 @@ struct stress {
int nlocks;
};
+struct rnd_state rng;
+DEFINE_SPINLOCK(rng_lock);
+
+static inline u32 prandom_u32_below(u32 ceil)
+{
+ u32 ret;
+
+ spin_lock(&rng_lock);
+ ret = prandom_u32_state(&rng) % ceil;
+ spin_unlock(&rng_lock);
+ return ret;
+}
+
static int *get_random_order(int count)
{
int *order;
@@ -399,7 +412,7 @@ static int *get_random_order(int count)
order[n] = n;
for (n = count - 1; n > 1; n--) {
- r = get_random_u32_below(n + 1);
+ r = prandom_u32_below(n + 1);
if (r != n) {
tmp = order[n];
order[n] = order[r];
@@ -625,6 +638,8 @@ static int __init test_ww_mutex_init(void)
printk(KERN_INFO "Beginning ww mutex selftests\n");
+ prandom_seed_state(&rng, get_random_u64());
+
wq = alloc_workqueue("test-ww_mutex", WQ_UNBOUND, 0);
if (!wq)
return -ENOMEM;