rcutorture: Add RCU grace-period performance tests

This commit adds a new rcuperf module that carries out simple performance
tests of RCU grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 1e9a607534ca..f4b797a690ba 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1289,6 +1289,39 @@ config TORTURE_TEST
 	tristate
 	default n
 
+config RCU_PERF_TEST
+	tristate "performance tests for RCU"
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+	select TORTURE_TEST
+	select SRCU
+	select TASKS_RCU
+	default n
+	help
+	  This option provides a kernel module that runs performance
+	  tests on the RCU infrastructure.  The kernel module may be built
+	  after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired.
+
+	  Say Y here if you want RCU performance tests to be built into
+	  the kernel.
+	  Say M if you want the RCU performance tests to build as a module.
+	  Say N if you are unsure.
+
+config RCU_PERF_TEST_RUNNABLE
+	bool "performance tests for RCU runnable by default"
+	depends on RCU_PERF_TEST = y
+	default n
+	help
+	  This option provides a way to build the RCU performance tests
+	  directly into the kernel without them starting up at boot time.
+	  You can use /sys/module to manually override this setting.
+	  This /proc file is available only when the RCU performance
+	  tests have been built into the kernel.
+
+	  Say Y here if you want the RCU performance tests to start during
+	  boot (you probably don't).
+	  Say N here if you want the RCU performance tests to start only
+	  after being manually enabled via /sys/module.
+
 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
 	tristate "torture tests for RCU"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL