Merge branch 'timers/nohz-v3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz

Pull nohz improvements from Frederic Weisbecker:

 " It mostly contains fixes and full dynticks off-case optimizations. I believe that
   distros want to enable this feature so it seems important to optimize the case
   where the "nohz_full=" parameter is empty. ie: I'm trying to remove any performance
   regression that comes with NO_HZ_FULL=y when the feature is not used.

   This patchset improves the current situation a lot (off-case appears to be around 11% faster
   with hackbench, although I guess it may vary depending on the configuration but it should be
   significantly faster in any case) now there is still some work to do: I can still observe a
   remaining loss of 1.6% throughput seen with hackbench compared to CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=n. "

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

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 247084be0590..ffbf5d788bf3 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -527,13 +527,29 @@ config RCU_USER_QS
 config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
 	bool "Force context tracking"
 	depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
-	default CONTEXT_TRACKING
+	default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
 	help
-	  Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
-	  test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended
-	  quiescent states.
-	  This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the
-	  full dynticks mode.
+	  The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
+	  support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
+	  other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
+	  dynticks working.
+
+	  This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
+	  context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
+	  requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
+	  Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
+	  for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
+	  userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
+	  accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
+	  dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
+	  CPUs in the system.
+
+	  Say Y only if you're working on the developpement of an
+	  architecture backend for the context tracking.
+
+	  Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
+	  don't want in production.
+
 
 config RCU_FANOUT
 	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index d03d2ec2eacf..af310afbef28 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/elevator.h>
 #include <linux/sched_clock.h>
+#include <linux/context_tracking.h>
 
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/bugs.h>
@@ -545,6 +546,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
 	idr_init_cache();
 	rcu_init();
 	tick_nohz_init();
+	context_tracking_init();
 	radix_tree_init();
 	/* init some links before init_ISA_irqs() */
 	early_irq_init();