linux-kernel - [PATCH 06/21] context_tracking: Remove full dynticks' hacky dependency on wide context tracking

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Date:	Sat, 27 Jul 2013 01:42:29 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 06/21] context_tracking: Remove full dynticks' hacky dependency on wide context tracking

Now that the full dynticks subsystem only enables the context tracking
on full dynticks CPUs, lets remove the dependency on CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE

This dependency was a hack to enable the context tracking widely for the
full dynticks susbsystem until the latter becomes able to enable it in a
more CPU-finegrained fashion.

Now CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE only stands for testing on archs that
work on support for the context tracking while full dynticks can't be
used yet due to unmet dependencies. It simulates a system where all CPUs
are full dynticks so that RCU user extended quiescent states and dynticks
cputime accounting can be tested on the given arch.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>
---
 init/Kconfig        |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 kernel/time/Kconfig |    1 -
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 247084b..ffbf5d7 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -527,13 +527,29 @@ config RCU_USER_QS
 config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
 	bool "Force context tracking"
 	depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
-	default CONTEXT_TRACKING
+	default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
 	help
-	  Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
-	  test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended
-	  quiescent states.
-	  This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the
-	  full dynticks mode.
+	  The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
+	  support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
+	  other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
+	  dynticks working.
+
+	  This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
+	  context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
+	  requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
+	  Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
+	  for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
+	  userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
+	  accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
+	  dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
+	  CPUs in the system.
+
+	  Say Y only if you're working on the developpement of an
+	  architecture backend for the context tracking.
+
+	  Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
+	  don't want in production.
+
 
 config RCU_FANOUT
 	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig
index 70f27e8..747bbc7 100644
--- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ config NO_HZ_FULL
 	select RCU_USER_QS
 	select RCU_NOCB_CPU
 	select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
-	select CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
 	select IRQ_WORK
 	help
 	 Adaptively try to shutdown the tick whenever possible, even when
-- 
1.7.5.4

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