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Commit 8b9a0ecc authored by Scott Wood's avatar Scott Wood Committed by Paul E. McKenney
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rcu: Unconditionally use rcuc threads on PREEMPT_RT



PREEMPT_RT systems have long used the rcutree.use_softirq kernel
boot parameter to avoid use of RCU_SOFTIRQ handlers, which can disrupt
real-time applications by invoking callbacks during return from interrupts
that arrived while executing time-critical code.  This kernel boot
parameter instead runs RCU core processing in an 'rcuc' kthread, thus
allowing the scheduler to do its job of avoiding disrupting time-critical
code.

This commit therefore disables the rcutree.use_softirq kernel boot
parameter on PREEMPT_RT systems, thus forcing such systems to do RCU
core processing in 'rcuc' kthreads.  This approach has long been in
use by users of the -rt patchset, and there have been no complaints.
There is therefore no way for the system administrator to override this
choice, at least without modifying and rebuilding the kernel.

Signed-off-by: default avatarScott Wood <swood@redhat.com>
[bigeasy: Reword commit message]
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 2341bc4a
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