kernel-fxtec-pro1x/include/linux/rcutree.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 (tree-based version)
*
* 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
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*
* 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.
*
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* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*
* Copyright IBM Corporation, 2008
*
* Author: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Hierarchical algorithm
*
* Based on the original work by Paul McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
* and inputs from Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli and Andi Kleen.
*
* For detailed explanation of Read-Copy Update mechanism see -
* Documentation/RCU
*/
#ifndef __LINUX_RCUTREE_H
#define __LINUX_RCUTREE_H
extern void rcu_init(void);
extern void rcu_note_context_switch(int cpu);
extern int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu);
extern void rcu_cpu_stall_reset(void);
#ifdef CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
extern void exit_rcu(void);
#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU */
static inline void exit_rcu(void)
{
}
#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU */
extern void synchronize_rcu_bh(void);
extern void synchronize_rcu_expedited(void);
static inline void synchronize_rcu_bh_expedited(void)
{
synchronize_sched_expedited();
}
extern void rcu_barrier(void);
extern long rcu_batches_completed(void);
extern long rcu_batches_completed_bh(void);
extern long rcu_batches_completed_sched(void);
extern void rcu_force_quiescent_state(void);
extern void rcu_bh_force_quiescent_state(void);
extern void rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state(void);
/* A context switch is a grace period for RCU-sched and RCU-bh. */
static inline int rcu_blocking_is_gp(void)
{
return num_online_cpus() == 1;
}
extern void rcu_scheduler_starting(void);
extern int rcu_scheduler_active __read_mostly;
#endif /* __LINUX_RCUTREE_H */