linux/init
Paul E. McKenney 3fbfbf7a3b rcu: Add callback-free CPUs
RCU callback execution can add significant OS jitter and also can
degrade both scheduling latency and, in asymmetric multiprocessors,
energy efficiency.  This commit therefore adds the ability for selected
CPUs ("rcu_nocbs=" boot parameter) to have their callbacks offloaded
to kthreads.  If the "rcu_nocb_poll" boot parameter is also specified,
these kthreads will do polling, removing the need for the offloaded
CPUs to do wakeups.  At least one CPU must be doing normal callback
processing: currently CPU 0 cannot be selected as a no-CBs CPU.
In addition, attempts to offline the last normal-CBs CPU will fail.

This feature was inspired by Jim Houston's and Joe Korty's JRCU, and
this commit includes fixes to problems located by Fengguang Wu's
kbuild test robot.

[ paulmck: Added gfp.h include file as suggested by Fengguang Wu. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-11-16 10:05:56 -08:00
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calibrate.c init: check printed flag to skip printing message 2012-03-23 16:58:38 -07:00
do_mounts_initrd.c don't bother with kernel_thread/kernel_execve for launching linuxrc 2012-10-11 21:40:30 -04:00
do_mounts_md.c init: disable sparse checking of the mount.o source files 2012-05-31 17:49:27 -07:00
do_mounts_rd.c init: disable sparse checking of the mount.o source files 2012-05-31 17:49:27 -07:00
do_mounts.c vfs: allocate page instead of names_cache buffer in mount_block_root 2012-10-12 00:32:03 -04:00
do_mounts.h md: move lots of #include lines out of .h files and into .c 2009-03-31 14:33:13 +11:00
init_task.c init_task: Create generic init_task instance 2012-05-05 13:00:21 +02:00
initramfs.c init: disable sparse checking of the mount.o source files 2012-05-31 17:49:27 -07:00
Kconfig rcu: Add callback-free CPUs 2012-11-16 10:05:56 -08:00
main.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-10-13 10:05:52 +09:00
Makefile init_task: Replace CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_INIT_TASK 2012-05-05 13:00:46 +02:00
noinitramfs.c init: mark __user address space on string literals 2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
version.c userns: add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace 2011-03-23 19:46:59 -07:00