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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/Kconfig | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 98 |
2 files changed, 108 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/Kconfig b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig index 38475d0bc634..6ee6372a4459 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ config TREE_SRCU This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU. config TASKS_RCU_GENERIC - def_bool TASKS_RCU + def_bool TASKS_RCU || TASKS_RUDE_RCU select SRCU help This option enables generic infrastructure code supporting @@ -84,6 +84,15 @@ config TASKS_RCU only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and user-mode execution as quiescent states. Not for manual selection. +config TASKS_RUDE_RCU + def_bool 0 + help + This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses + only context switch (including preemption) and user-mode + execution as quiescent states. It forces IPIs and context + switches on all online CPUs, including idle ones, so use + with caution. + config RCU_STALL_COMMON def_bool TREE_RCU help diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h index d77921ee5a6e..7f9ed20c26c7 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h @@ -180,6 +180,9 @@ static void __init rcu_tasks_bootup_oddness(void) else pr_info("\tTasks RCU enabled.\n"); #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU */ +#ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RUDE_RCU + pr_info("\tRude variant of Tasks RCU enabled.\n"); +#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RUDE_RCU */ } #endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */ @@ -410,3 +413,98 @@ static int __init rcu_spawn_tasks_kthread(void) core_initcall(rcu_spawn_tasks_kthread); #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU */ + +#ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RUDE_RCU + +//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// +// +// "Rude" variant of Tasks RCU, inspired by Steve Rostedt's trick of +// passing an empty function to schedule_on_each_cpu(). This approach +// provides an asynchronous call_rcu_tasks_rude() API and batching +// of concurrent calls to the synchronous synchronize_rcu_rude() API. +// This sends IPIs far and wide and induces otherwise unnecessary context +// switches on all online CPUs, whether idle or not. + +// Empty function to allow workqueues to force a context switch. +static void rcu_tasks_be_rude(struct work_struct *work) +{ +} + +// Wait for one rude RCU-tasks grace period. +static void rcu_tasks_rude_wait_gp(struct rcu_tasks *rtp) +{ + schedule_on_each_cpu(rcu_tasks_be_rude); +} + +void call_rcu_tasks_rude(struct rcu_head *rhp, rcu_callback_t func); +DEFINE_RCU_TASKS(rcu_tasks_rude, rcu_tasks_rude_wait_gp, call_rcu_tasks_rude); + +/** + * call_rcu_tasks_rude() - Queue a callback rude task-based grace period + * @rhp: structure to be used for queueing the RCU updates. + * @func: actual callback function to be invoked after the grace period + * + * The callback function will be invoked some time after a full grace + * period elapses, in other words after all currently executing RCU + * read-side critical sections have completed. call_rcu_tasks_rude() + * assumes that the read-side critical sections end at context switch, + * cond_resched_rcu_qs(), or transition to usermode execution. As such, + * there are no read-side primitives analogous to rcu_read_lock() and + * rcu_read_unlock() because this primitive is intended to determine + * that all tasks have passed through a safe state, not so much for + * data-strcuture synchronization. + * + * See the description of call_rcu() for more detailed information on + * memory ordering guarantees. + */ +void call_rcu_tasks_rude(struct rcu_head *rhp, rcu_callback_t func) +{ + call_rcu_tasks_generic(rhp, func, &rcu_tasks_rude); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu_tasks_rude); + +/** + * synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude - wait for a rude rcu-tasks grace period + * + * Control will return to the caller some time after a rude rcu-tasks + * grace period has elapsed, in other words after all currently + * executing rcu-tasks read-side critical sections have elapsed. These + * read-side critical sections are delimited by calls to schedule(), + * cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), userspace execution, and (in theory, + * anyway) cond_resched(). + * + * This is a very specialized primitive, intended only for a few uses in + * tracing and other situations requiring manipulation of function preambles + * and profiling hooks. The synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude() function is not + * (yet) intended for heavy use from multiple CPUs. + * + * See the description of synchronize_rcu() for more detailed information + * on memory ordering guarantees. + */ +void synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude(void) +{ + synchronize_rcu_tasks_generic(&rcu_tasks_rude); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude); + +/** + * rcu_barrier_tasks_rude - Wait for in-flight call_rcu_tasks_rude() callbacks. + * + * Although the current implementation is guaranteed to wait, it is not + * obligated to, for example, if there are no pending callbacks. + */ +void rcu_barrier_tasks_rude(void) +{ + /* There is only one callback queue, so this is easy. ;-) */ + synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude(); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_barrier_tasks_rude); + +static int __init rcu_spawn_tasks_rude_kthread(void) +{ + rcu_spawn_tasks_kthread_generic(&rcu_tasks_rude); + return 0; +} +core_initcall(rcu_spawn_tasks_rude_kthread); + +#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RUDE_RCU */ |