By default we don't want to enter into RCU extended quiescent state while in userspace because doing this produces some overhead (eg: use of syscall slowpath). Set it off by default and ready to run when some feature like adaptive tickless need it.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]> Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Geoff Levand <[email protected]> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <[email protected]> Cc: Hakan Akkan <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Cc: Kevin Hilman <[email protected]> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> --- kernel/rcutree.c | 5 ++++- kernel/rcutree.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index d5df618..78b0c30 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_note_context_switch); DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_dynticks, rcu_dynticks) = { .dynticks_nesting = DYNTICK_TASK_EXIT_IDLE, .dynticks = ATOMIC_INIT(1), +#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS + .ignore_user_qs = true, +#endif }; static int blimit = 10; /* Maximum callbacks per rcu_do_batch. */ @@ -442,7 +445,7 @@ void rcu_user_enter(void) local_irq_save(flags); rdtp = &__get_cpu_var(rcu_dynticks); - if (!rdtp->in_user) { + if (!rdtp->ignore_user_qs && !rdtp->in_user) { rdtp->in_user = true; rcu_eqs_enter(1); } diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h index 4d82cb5..55bcef1 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ struct rcu_dynticks { int tick_nohz_enabled_snap; /* Previously seen value from sysfs. */ #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ */ #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS + bool ignore_user_qs; /* Treat userspace as extended QS or not */ bool in_user; /* Is the CPU in userland from RCU POV? */ #endif }; -- 1.7.5.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
