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, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index def5dd6097a0..68755cd9a7e4 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ obj-y     = sched.o fork.o exec_domain.o panic.o printk.o profile.o \
             exit.o itimer.o time.o softirq.o resource.o \
             sysctl.o capability.o ptrace.o timer.o user.o user_namespace.o \
             signal.o sys.o kmod.o workqueue.o pid.o \
-            rcupdate.o rcuclassic.o extable.o params.o posix-timers.o \
+            rcupdate.o extable.o params.o posix-timers.o \
             kthread.o wait.o kfifo.o sys_ni.o posix-cpu-timers.o mutex.o \
             hrtimer.o rwsem.o latency.o nsproxy.o srcu.o \
             utsname.o notifier.o
@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP) += softlockup.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS) += irq/
 obj-$(CONFIG_SECCOMP) += seccomp.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST) += rcutorture.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU) += rcuclassic.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU) += rcupreempt.o
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU),y)
+obj-$(CONFIG_RCU_TRACE) += rcupreempt_trace.o
+endif
 obj-$(CONFIG_RELAY) += relay.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SYSCTL) += utsname_sysctl.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT) += delayacct.o