linux/tools
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi 15cf39221e selftests/bpf: Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI
Introduce a kernel module that will exercise lock acquisition in the NMI
path, and bias toward creating contention such that NMI waiters end up
being non-head waiters. Prior to the rqspinlock fix made in the commit
0d80e7f951 ("rqspinlock: Choose trylock fallback for NMI waiters"), it
was possible for the queueing path of non-head waiters to get stuck in
NMI, which this stress test reproduces fairly easily with just 3 CPUs.

Both AA and ABBA flavors are supported, and it will serve as a test case
for future fixes that address this corner case. More information about
the problem in question is available in the commit cited above. When the
fix is reverted, this stress test will lock up the system.

To enable this test automatically through the test_progs infrastructure,
add a load_module_params API to exercise both AA and ABBA cases when
running the test.

Note that the test runs for at most 5 seconds, and becomes a noop after
that, in order to allow the system to make forward progress. In
addition, CPU 0 is always kept untouched by the created threads and
NMIs. The test will automatically scale to the number of available
online CPUs.

Note that at least 3 CPUs are necessary to run this test, hence skip the
selftest in case the environment has less than 3 CPUs available.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250927205304.199760-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-09-28 03:18:40 -07:00
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accounting tools/getdelays: add backward compatibility for taskstats version 2025-08-02 12:01:41 -07:00
arch ARM: 2025-08-29 13:54:26 -07:00
bootconfig bootconfig: Fix negative seeks on 32-bit with LFS enabled 2025-08-21 08:16:31 +09:00
bpf bpftool: Remove duplicate string.h header 2025-09-27 04:23:15 -07:00
build
certs
cgroup memcg_slabinfo: Fix use of PG_slab 2025-07-23 11:55:22 +02:00
counter
crypto
debugging
firewire
firmware
gpio tools: gpio: remove the include directory on make clean 2025-09-04 16:29:28 +02:00
hv
iio
include bpf: bpf task work plumbing 2025-09-23 07:34:38 -07:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib libbpf: Fix error when st-prefix_ops and ops from differ btf 2025-09-26 13:03:19 -07:00
memory-model
mm
net tools: ynl-gen: fix nested array counting 2025-09-03 15:18:34 -07:00
objtool objtool/LoongArch: Get table size correctly if LTO is enabled 2025-08-20 22:23:15 +08:00
pcmcia
perf perf symbol-elf: Add support for the block argument for libbfd 2025-09-04 16:37:35 -07:00
power cpupower: Allow control of boost feature on non-x86 based systems with boost support. 2025-08-15 10:49:14 -06:00
rcu
sched
sched_ext
scripts tools headers: Sync syscall tables with the kernel source 2025-08-18 13:49:25 -07:00
sound
spi
testing selftests/bpf: Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI 2025-09-28 03:18:40 -07:00
thermal
time
tracing rtla: Check pkg-config install 2025-08-19 20:32:54 -04:00
usb
verification rv: Add opid per-cpu monitor 2025-07-28 16:47:35 -04:00
virtio
wmi
workqueue
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