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Paul E. McKenney b2c0710c46 rcu: move TINY_RCU from softirq to kthread 
If RCU priority boosting is to be meaningful, callback invocation must
be boosted in addition to preempted RCU readers.  Otherwise, in presence
of CPU real-time threads, the grace period ends, but the callbacks don't
get invoked.  If the callbacks don't get invoked, the associated memory
doesn't get freed, so the system is still subject to OOM.

But it is not reasonable to priority-boost RCU_SOFTIRQ, so this commit
moves the callback invocations to a kthread, which can be boosted easily.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-11-17 15:45:09 -08:00
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debug Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-09-08 11:13:42 -07:00
gcov gcov: fix null-pointer dereference for certain module types 2010-09-09 18:57:23 -07:00
irq
power Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 2010-09-11 15:50:53 -07:00
time
trace Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-09-10 07:31:24 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c
audit.c
audit.h
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup_freezer.c
cgroup.c Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/rcu 2010-10-07 09:43:11 +02:00
compat.c compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
configs.c
cpu.c
cpuset.c
cred.c
delayacct.c
dma.c
early_res.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c
extable.c
fork.c rmap: fix walk during fork 2010-09-22 17:22:39 -07:00
freezer.c
futex_compat.c
futex.c
groups.c kernel/groups.c: fix integer overflow in groups_search 2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
hrtimer.c gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings 2010-09-05 14:36:58 +02:00
hung_task.c
hw_breakpoint.c hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug 2010-09-17 04:42:59 +02:00
itimer.c
kallsyms.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c
kfifo.c kfifo: fix scatterlist usage 2010-10-01 10:50:58 -07:00
kmod.c
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep_states.h
lockdep.c
Makefile rcu: Add a TINY_PREEMPT_RCU 2010-08-20 08:55:00 -07:00
module.c modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race 2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook 2010-09-03 08:19:51 +02:00
mutex.h
notifier.c
ns_cgroup.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c
params.c
perf_event.c perf: Fix CPU hotplug 2010-09-09 20:38:52 +02:00
pid_namespace.c
pid.c
pm_qos_params.c PM QoS: Correct pr_debug() misuse and improve parameter checks 2010-09-11 00:53:05 +02:00
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
printk.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
range.c
rcupdate.c Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/rcu 2010-10-07 09:43:11 +02:00
rcutiny_plugin.h rcu: move TINY_RCU from softirq to kthread 2010-11-17 15:45:09 -08:00
rcutiny.c rcu: move TINY_RCU from softirq to kthread 2010-11-17 15:45:09 -08:00
rcutorture.c rcu: add priority-inversion testing to rcutorture 2010-10-07 10:41:08 -07:00
rcutree_plugin.h rcu: fix _oddness handling of verbose stall warnings 2010-09-02 16:15:30 -07:00
rcutree_trace.c rcu: Add tracing data to support queueing models 2010-09-23 09:16:53 -07:00
rcutree.c rcu: using ACCESS_ONCE() to observe the jiffies_stall/rnp->qsmask value 2010-10-07 10:41:06 -07:00
rcutree.h rcu: Add tracing data to support queueing models 2010-09-23 09:16:53 -07:00
relay.c
res_counter.c
resource.c
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c
sched_clock.c
sched_cpupri.c
sched_cpupri.h
sched_debug.c
sched_fair.c sched: suppress RCU lockdep splat in task_fork_fair 2010-10-07 10:40:50 -07:00
sched_features.h
sched_idletask.c
sched_rt.c
sched_stats.h
sched.c sched: fix RCU lockdep splat from task_group() 2010-10-07 10:41:07 -07:00
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c
smp.c generic-ipi: Fix deadlock in __smp_call_function_single 2010-09-10 16:48:40 +02:00
softirq.c
spinlock.c
srcu.c kernel: Remove undead ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 2010-09-23 09:14:51 -07:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c
sys.c pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section 2010-08-31 17:00:18 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c
sysctl_check.c
sysctl.c gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings 2010-09-05 14:36:58 +02:00
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.pl
timer.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user_namespace.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
wait.c
watchdog.c lockup_detector: Sync touch_*_watchdog back to old semantics 2010-09-01 10:02:28 +02:00
workqueue_sched.h
workqueue.c workqueue: add documentation 2010-09-13 10:26:52 +02:00