Commit 36221e10 authored by Julia Cartwright's avatar Julia Cartwright Committed by Paul E. McKenney
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rcu: Enable rcu_normal_after_boot unconditionally for RT 



Expedited RCU grace periods send IPIs to all non-idle CPUs, and thus can
disrupt time-critical code in real-time applications.  However, there
is a portion of boot-time processing (presumably before any real-time
applications have started) where expedited RCU grace periods are the only
option.  And so it is that experience with the -rt patchset indicates that
PREEMPT_RT systems should always set the rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot
kernel boot parameter.

This commit therefore makes the post-boot application environment safe
for real-time applications by making PREEMPT_RT systems disable the
rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot kernel boot parameter and acting as
if this parameter had been set.  This means that post-boot calls to
synchronize_rcu_expedited() will be treated as if they were instead
calls to synchronize_rcu(), thus preventing the IPIs, and thus avoiding
disrupting real-time applications.

Suggested-by: default avatarLuiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJulia Cartwright <julia@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ paulmck: Update kernel-parameters.txt accordingly. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent 8b9a0ecc

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

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			only normal grace-period primitives.  No effect

			on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.



			But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables

			this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting

			it to the value one, that is, converting any

			post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace

			period to instead use normal non-expedited

			grace-period processing.



	rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL]

			Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will

			avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning

kernel/rcu/update.c

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#ifndef CONFIG_TINY_RCU

module_param(rcu_expedited, int, 0);

module_param(rcu_normal, int, 0);

static int rcu_normal_after_boot;

static int rcu_normal_after_boot = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT);

#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT

module_param(rcu_normal_after_boot, int, 0);

#endif

#endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */



#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC