linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 08/11] context_tracking,rcu: Replace RCU dynticks counter with context

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Message-ID: <20210929192431.GG5106@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:24:31 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     gor@...ux.ibm.com, jpoimboe@...hat.com, jikos@...nel.org,
        mbenes@...e.cz, pmladek@...e.com, mingo@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 08/11] context_tracking,rcu: Replace RCU dynticks
 counter with context_tracking

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 09:13:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 11:37:01AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > And what happens to all of this in !CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING kernels?
> > Of course, RCU needs it unconditionally.  (There appear to be at least
> > parts of it that are unconditionally available, but I figured that I
> > should ask.  Especially given the !CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING definition
> > of the __context_tracking_cpu_seq() function.)
> 
> For !CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING it goes *poof*.
> 
> Since the thing was called dynticks, I presumed it was actually dynticks
> only, silly me (also, I didn't see any obvious !context_tracking usage
> of it, i'll go audit it more carefully.

Oh argh, it does idle too... damn. And I don't suppose having 2 counters
is going to be nice :/

I'll go back to thinking about this.