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

Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:

 - Documentation updates.

 - Miscellaneous fixes.

 - Parallelize SRCU callback handling (plus overlapping patches).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index a92f27da4a27..4119a44e4157 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -526,6 +526,35 @@ config SRCU
 	  permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
 	  sections.
 
+config CLASSIC_SRCU
+	bool "Use v4.11 classic SRCU implementation"
+	default n
+	depends on RCU_EXPERT && SRCU
+	help
+	  This option selects the traditional well-tested classic SRCU
+	  implementation from v4.11, as might be desired for enterprise
+	  Linux distributions.  Without this option, the shiny new
+	  Tiny SRCU and Tree SRCU implementations are used instead.
+	  At some point, it is hoped that Tiny SRCU and Tree SRCU
+	  will accumulate enough test time and confidence to allow
+	  Classic SRCU to be dropped entirely.
+
+	  Say Y if you need a rock-solid SRCU.
+
+	  Say N if you would like help test Tree SRCU.
+
+config TINY_SRCU
+	bool
+	default y if TINY_RCU && !CLASSIC_SRCU
+	help
+	  This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU.
+
+config TREE_SRCU
+	bool
+	default y if !TINY_RCU && !CLASSIC_SRCU
+	help
+	  This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU.
+
 config TASKS_RCU
 	bool
 	default n
@@ -612,11 +641,17 @@ config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
 	  initialization.  These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
 	  are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
 	  skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
-	  leaf-level fanouts work well.
+	  leaf-level fanouts work well.  That said, setting leaf-level
+	  fanout to a large number will likely cause problematic
+	  lock contention on the leaf-level rcu_node structures unless
+	  you boot with the skew_tick kernel parameter.
 
 	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
 
-	  Select the maximum permissible value for large systems.
+	  Select the maximum permissible value for large systems, but
+	  please understand that you may also need to set the skew_tick
+	  kernel boot parameter to avoid contention on the rcu_node
+	  structure's locks.
 
 	  Take the default if unsure.