rcu: Add a module parameter to force use of expedited RCU primitives

There have been some embedded applications that would benefit from
use of expedited grace-period primitives.  In some ways, this is
similar to synchronize_net() doing either a normal or an expedited
grace period depending on lock state, but with control outside of
the kernel.

This commit therefore adds rcu_expedited boot and sysfs parameters
that cause the kernel to substitute expedited primitives for the
normal grace-period primitives.

[ paulmck: Add trace/event/rcu.h to kernel/srcu.c to avoid build error.
	   Get rid of infinite loop through contention path.]

Signed-off-by: Antti P Miettinen <amiettinen@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Antti P Miettinen
2012-10-05 09:59:15 +03:00
committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent ba49df4767
commit 3705b88db0
7 changed files with 48 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -706,7 +706,10 @@ void synchronize_rcu(void)
return;
/* Once we get past the fastpath checks, same code as rcu_barrier(). */
rcu_barrier();
if (rcu_expedited)
synchronize_rcu_expedited();
else
rcu_barrier();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_rcu);