linux-kernel - [PATCH 11/11] rcu: Userspace RCU extended QS selftest

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:26:40 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>,
	Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>,
	Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>,
	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 11/11] rcu: Userspace RCU extended QS selftest

Provide a config option that enables the userspace
RCU extended quiescent state on every CPUs by default.

This is for testing purpose.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@...il.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@...il.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 init/Kconfig     |    8 ++++++++
 kernel/rcutree.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 3a4af8f..7d1db2e 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -451,6 +451,14 @@ config RCU_USER_QS
 	  excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
 	  to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
 
+config RCU_USER_QS_FORCE
+	bool "Force userspace extended QS by default"
+	depends on RCU_USER_QS
+	help
+	  Set the hooks in user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
+	  test this feature that treats userspace as an extended quiescent
+	  state until we have a real user like a full adaptive nohz option.
+
 config RCU_FANOUT
 	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
 	range 2 64 if 64BIT
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 2d79308..9427aba 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ 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
+#if defined(CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS) && !defined(CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS_FORCE)
 	.ignore_user_qs = true,
 #endif
 };
-- 
1.7.5.4

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