Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu

Pull v4.20 RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney:

- Documentation updates, including some good-eye catches from
  Joel Fernandes.

- SRCU updates, most notably changes enabling call_srcu() to be
  invoked very early in the boot sequence.

- Torture-test updates, including some preliminary work towards
  making rcutorture better able to find problems that result in
  insufficient grace-period forward progress.

- Consolidate the RCU-bh, RCU-preempt, and RCU-sched flavors into
  a single flavor similar to RCU-sched in !PREEMPT kernels and
  into a single flavor similar to RCU-preempt (but also waiting
  on preempt-disabled sequences of code) in PREEMPT kernels.  This
  branch also includes a refactoring of rcu_{nmi,irq}_{enter,exit}()
  from Byungchul Park.

- Now that there is only one RCU flavor in any given running kernel,
  the many "rsp" pointers are no longer required, and this cleanup
  series removes them.

- This branch carries out additional cleanups made possible by
  the RCU flavor consolidation, including inlining how-trivial
  functions, updating comments and definitions, and removing
  now-unneeded rcutorture scenarios.

- Initial changes to RCU to better promote forward progress of
  grace periods, including fixing a bug found by Marius Hillenbrand
  and David Woodhouse, with the fix suggested by Peter Zijlstra.

- Now that there is only one flavor of RCU in any running kernel,
  there is also only on rcu_data structure per CPU.  This means
  that the rcu_dynticks structure can be merged into the rcu_data
  structure, a task taken on by this branch.  This branch also
  contains a -rt-related fix from Mike Galbraith.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Ingo Molnar
2018-10-02 10:21:32 +02:00
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@@ -3540,14 +3540,14 @@
In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
"s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
which can be useful for HPC and real-time
workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
for asymmetric multiprocessors.
rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
@@ -3601,7 +3601,14 @@
Set required age in jiffies for a
given grace period before RCU starts
soliciting quiescent-state help from
rcu_note_context_switch().
rcu_note_context_switch(). If not specified, the
kernel will calculate a value based on the most
recent settings of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
This calculated value may be viewed in
rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to
set rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be
cheerfully overwritten.
rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Set delay from grace-period initialization to
@@ -3869,12 +3876,6 @@
rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
Run the RCU early boot self tests
rcupdate.rcu_self_test_bh= [KNL]
Run the RCU bh early boot self tests
rcupdate.rcu_self_test_sched= [KNL]
Run the RCU sched early boot self tests
rdinit= [KNL]
Format: <full_path>
Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,