Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - Debloat RCU headers

   - Parallelize SRCU callback handling (plus overlapping patches)

   - Improve the performance of Tree SRCU on a CPU-hotplug stress test

   - Documentation updates

   - Miscellaneous fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (74 commits)
  rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_lazy_cbs() function
  rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_cbs() function
  rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_empty() function
  rcu: Separately compile large rcu_segcblist functions
  srcu: Debloat the <linux/rcu_segcblist.h> header
  srcu: Adjust default auto-expediting holdoff
  srcu: Specify auto-expedite holdoff time
  srcu: Expedite first synchronize_srcu() when idle
  srcu: Expedited grace periods with reduced memory contention
  srcu: Make rcutorture writer stalls print SRCU GP state
  srcu: Exact tracking of srcu_data structures containing callbacks
  srcu: Make SRCU be built by default
  srcu: Fix Kconfig botch when SRCU not selected
  rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent state
  srcu: Expedite srcu_schedule_cbs_snp() callback invocation
  srcu: Parallelize callback handling
  kvm: Move srcu_struct fields to end of struct kvm
  rcu: Fix typo in PER_RCU_NODE_PERIOD header comment
  rcu: Use true/false in assignment to bool
  rcu: Use bool value directly
  ...

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index a92f27da4a27..1d3475fc9496 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -521,11 +521,41 @@ config RCU_EXPERT
 
 config SRCU
 	bool
+	default y
 	help
 	  This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
 	  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 SRCU && TINY_RCU && !CLASSIC_SRCU
+	help
+	  This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU.
+
+config TREE_SRCU
+	bool
+	default y if SRCU && !TINY_RCU && !CLASSIC_SRCU
+	help
+	  This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU.
+
 config TASKS_RCU
 	bool
 	default n
@@ -543,6 +573,9 @@ config RCU_STALL_COMMON
 	  the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
 	  making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
 
+config RCU_NEED_SEGCBLIST
+	def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || TINY_SRCU || TREE_SRCU )
+
 config CONTEXT_TRACKING
        bool
 
@@ -612,11 +645,17 @@ 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.