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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-01 13:16:42 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-01 13:16:42 -0400
commit620e77533f29796df7aff861e79bd72e08554ebb (patch)
tree844afce2333549bc5b8d7dc87a4875b9216a0023 /include/linux/kthread.h
parent6977b4c7736e8809b7959c66875a16c0bbcf2152 (diff)
parentfa34da708cbe1e2d9a2ee7fc68ea8fccbf095d12 (diff)
Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar: 0. 'idle RCU': Adds RCU APIs that allow non-idle tasks to enter RCU idle mode and provides x86 code to make use of them, allowing RCU to treat user-mode execution as an extended quiescent state when the new RCU_USER_QS kernel configuration parameter is specified. (Work is in progress to port this to a few other architectures, but is not part of this series.) 1. A fix for a latent bug that has been in RCU ever since the addition of CPU stall warnings. This bug results in false-positive stall warnings, but thus far only on embedded systems with severely cut-down userspace configurations. 2. Further reductions in latency spikes for huge systems, along with additional boot-time adaptation to the actual hardware. This is a large change, as it moves RCU grace-period initialization and cleanup, along with quiescent-state forcing, from softirq to a kthread. However, it appears to be in quite good shape (famous last words). 3. Updates to documentation and rcutorture, the latter category including keeping statistics on CPU-hotplug latencies and fixing some initialization-time races. 4. CPU-hotplug fixes and improvements. 5. Idle-loop fixes that were omitted on an earlier submission. 6. Miscellaneous fixes and improvements In certain RCU configurations new kernel threads will show up (rcu_bh, rcu_sched), showing RCU processing overhead. * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits) rcu: Apply micro-optimization and int/bool fixes to RCU's idle handling rcu: Userspace RCU extended QS selftest x86: Exit RCU extended QS on notify resume x86: Use the new schedule_user API on userspace preemption rcu: Exit RCU extended QS on user preemption rcu: Exit RCU extended QS on kernel preemption after irq/exception x86: Exception hooks for userspace RCU extended QS x86: Unspaghettize do_general_protection() x86: Syscall hooks for userspace RCU extended QS rcu: Switch task's syscall hooks on context switch rcu: Ignore userspace extended quiescent state by default rcu: Allow rcu_user_enter()/exit() to nest rcu: Settle config for userspace extended quiescent state rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle adaptive ticks rcu: New rcu_user_enter_after_irq() and rcu_user_exit_after_irq() APIs rcu: New rcu_user_enter() and rcu_user_exit() APIs ia64: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop xtensa: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop score: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop parisc: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop ...
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kthread.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kthread.h11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h
index 22ccf9dee177..8d816646f766 100644
--- a/include/linux/kthread.h
+++ b/include/linux/kthread.h
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
14 kthread_create_on_node(threadfn, data, -1, namefmt, ##arg) 14 kthread_create_on_node(threadfn, data, -1, namefmt, ##arg)
15 15
16 16
17struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_cpu(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
18 void *data,
19 unsigned int cpu,
20 const char *namefmt);
21
17/** 22/**
18 * kthread_run - create and wake a thread. 23 * kthread_run - create and wake a thread.
19 * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current). 24 * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current).
@@ -34,9 +39,13 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
34 39
35void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu); 40void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu);
36int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k); 41int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k);
37int kthread_should_stop(void); 42bool kthread_should_stop(void);
43bool kthread_should_park(void);
38bool kthread_freezable_should_stop(bool *was_frozen); 44bool kthread_freezable_should_stop(bool *was_frozen);
39void *kthread_data(struct task_struct *k); 45void *kthread_data(struct task_struct *k);
46int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k);
47void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k);
48void kthread_parkme(void);
40 49
41int kthreadd(void *unused); 50int kthreadd(void *unused);
42extern struct task_struct *kthreadd_task; 51extern struct task_struct *kthreadd_task;