alistair23-linux/include/linux/rcutiny.h
Paul E. McKenney b2c0710c46 rcu: move TINY_RCU from softirq to kthread
If RCU priority boosting is to be meaningful, callback invocation must
be boosted in addition to preempted RCU readers.  Otherwise, in presence
of CPU real-time threads, the grace period ends, but the callbacks don't
get invoked.  If the callbacks don't get invoked, the associated memory
doesn't get freed, so the system is still subject to OOM.

But it is not reasonable to priority-boost RCU_SOFTIRQ, so this commit
moves the callback invocations to a kthread, which can be boosted easily.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-11-17 15:45:09 -08:00

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/*
* Read-Copy Update mechanism for mutual exclusion, the Bloatwatch edition.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*
* Copyright IBM Corporation, 2008
*
* Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
*
* For detailed explanation of Read-Copy Update mechanism see -
* Documentation/RCU
*/
#ifndef __LINUX_TINY_H
#define __LINUX_TINY_H
#include <linux/cache.h>
static inline void rcu_init(void)
{
}
#ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU
static inline void synchronize_rcu_expedited(void)
{
synchronize_sched(); /* Only one CPU, so pretty fast anyway!!! */
}
static inline void rcu_barrier(void)
{
rcu_barrier_sched(); /* Only one CPU, so only one list of callbacks! */
}
#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */
void rcu_barrier(void);
void synchronize_rcu_expedited(void);
#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */
static inline void synchronize_rcu_bh(void)
{
synchronize_sched();
}
static inline void synchronize_rcu_bh_expedited(void)
{
synchronize_sched();
}
#ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU
static inline void rcu_preempt_note_context_switch(void)
{
}
static inline void exit_rcu(void)
{
}
static inline int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu)
{
return 0;
}
#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */
void rcu_preempt_note_context_switch(void);
extern void exit_rcu(void);
int rcu_preempt_needs_cpu(void);
static inline int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu)
{
return rcu_preempt_needs_cpu();
}
#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */
static inline void rcu_note_context_switch(int cpu)
{
rcu_sched_qs(cpu);
rcu_preempt_note_context_switch();
}
/*
* Return the number of grace periods.
*/
static inline long rcu_batches_completed(void)
{
return 0;
}
/*
* Return the number of bottom-half grace periods.
*/
static inline long rcu_batches_completed_bh(void)
{
return 0;
}
static inline void rcu_force_quiescent_state(void)
{
}
static inline void rcu_bh_force_quiescent_state(void)
{
}
static inline void rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state(void)
{
}
static inline void rcu_cpu_stall_reset(void)
{
}
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
extern int rcu_scheduler_active __read_mostly;
extern void rcu_scheduler_starting(void);
#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC */
static inline void rcu_scheduler_starting(void)
{
}
#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC */
#endif /* __LINUX_RCUTINY_H */