Preempt-RCU: implementation

This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side
critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs
to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them
when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details
of this implementation can be found in this paper -

	http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf

and the article-

	http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/

This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and
meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of
RCU don't disable preemption.  As a consequence of keeping track of RCU
readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper).
This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations
and can be switched to at compiler.

Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs.

[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ]

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index f5becd2a12f6..0eda68f0ad54 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -763,3 +763,31 @@ source "block/Kconfig"
 
 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
         bool
+
+choice
+        prompt "RCU implementation type:"
+        default CLASSIC_RCU
+
+config CLASSIC_RCU
+        bool "Classic RCU"
+        help
+          This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
+          designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
+          systems.
+
+          Say Y if you are unsure.
+
+config PREEMPT_RCU
+        bool "Preemptible RCU"
+        depends on PREEMPT
+        help
+          This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain
+          RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if
+          this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become
+          preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to
+          now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section
+          remaining on a given CPU through its execution.
+
+          Say N if you are unsure.
+
+endchoice