linux/Documentation/RCU
Paul E. McKenney 5cd37193ce rcu: Make cond_resched_rcu_qs() apply to normal RCU flavors
Although cond_resched_rcu_qs() only applies to TASKS_RCU, it is used
in places where it would be useful for it to apply to the normal RCU
flavors, rcu_preempt, rcu_sched, and rcu_bh.  This is especially the
case for workloads that aggressively overload the system, particularly
those that generate large numbers of RCU updates on systems running
NO_HZ_FULL CPUs.  This commit therefore communicates quiescent states
from cond_resched_rcu_qs() to the normal RCU flavors.

Note that it is unfortunately necessary to leave the old ->passed_quiesce
mechanism in place to allow quiescent states that apply to only one
flavor to be recorded.  (Yes, we could decrement ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap in
that case, but that is not so good for debugging of RCU internals.)
In addition, if one of the RCU flavor's grace period has stalled, this
will invoke rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle(), resulting in a heavy-weight
quiescent state visible from other CPUs.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Merge commit from Sasha Levin fixing a bug where __this_cpu()
  was used in preemptible code. ]
2015-01-15 23:33:14 -08:00
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00-INDEX documentation: Record rcu_dereference() value mishandling 2014-04-29 08:38:33 -07:00
arrayRCU.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
checklist.txt documentation: Record rcu_dereference() value mishandling 2014-04-29 08:38:33 -07:00
listRCU.txt rcu: Update docs to include kfree_rcu() 2012-11-08 11:44:25 -08:00
lockdep-splat.txt rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats 2011-09-28 21:38:28 -07:00
lockdep.txt rcu: Documentation update 2013-03-12 14:09:02 -07:00
NMI-RCU.txt rcu: Fix RCU's NMI documentation 2011-09-28 21:36:44 -07:00
rcu_dereference.txt documentation: Record rcu_dereference() value mishandling 2014-04-29 08:38:33 -07:00
rcu.txt rcu: Remove redundant TREE_PREEMPT_RCU config option 2014-10-29 10:20:05 -07:00
rcubarrier.txt rcu: Fix rcu_barrier() documentation 2013-08-18 17:05:32 -07:00
rculist_nulls.txt netfilter: nf_conntrack: nf_conntrack_alloc() fixes 2009-07-16 14:03:40 +02:00
rcuref.txt documentation: Add pointer to percpu-ref for RCU and refcount 2014-07-08 08:32:56 -07:00
RTFP.txt documentation: Update reference, kerneltrap.org no longer works 2014-07-08 08:14:09 -07:00
stallwarn.txt rcu: Improve diagnostics for spurious RCU CPU stall warnings 2015-01-06 11:05:27 -08:00
torture.txt rcu: Increase rcutorture test coverage 2013-08-20 11:38:41 -07:00
trace.txt rcu: Make cond_resched_rcu_qs() apply to normal RCU flavors 2015-01-15 23:33:14 -08:00
UP.txt rcu: Add synchronize_sched_expedited() rcutorture doc + updates 2009-07-03 10:02:29 +02:00
whatisRCU.txt rcu: Remove redundant TREE_PREEMPT_RCU config option 2014-10-29 10:20:05 -07:00