rcu: Add a module parameter to force use of expedited RCU primitives

There have been some embedded applications that would benefit from
use of expedited grace-period primitives.  In some ways, this is
similar to synchronize_net() doing either a normal or an expedited
grace period depending on lock state, but with control outside of
the kernel.

This commit therefore adds rcu_expedited boot and sysfs parameters
that cause the kernel to substitute expedited primitives for the
normal grace-period primitives.

[ paulmck: Add trace/event/rcu.h to kernel/srcu.c to avoid build error.
	   Get rid of infinite loop through contention path.]

Signed-off-by: Antti P Miettinen <amiettinen@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/ksysfs.c b/kernel/ksysfs.c
index 4e316e1acf58..8715a798aa7c 100644
--- a/kernel/ksysfs.c
+++ b/kernel/ksysfs.c
@@ -141,6 +141,23 @@ static ssize_t fscaps_show(struct kobject *kobj,
 }
 KERNEL_ATTR_RO(fscaps);
 
+int rcu_expedited;
+static ssize_t rcu_expedited_show(struct kobject *kobj,
+                                  struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+        return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", rcu_expedited);
+}
+static ssize_t rcu_expedited_store(struct kobject *kobj,
+                                   struct kobj_attribute *attr,
+                                   const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+        if (kstrtoint(buf, 0, &rcu_expedited))
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        return count;
+}
+KERNEL_ATTR_RW(rcu_expedited);
+
 /*
  * Make /sys/kernel/notes give the raw contents of our kernel .notes section.
  */
@@ -182,6 +199,7 @@ static struct attribute * kernel_attrs[] = {
         &kexec_crash_size_attr.attr,
         &vmcoreinfo_attr.attr,
 #endif
+        &rcu_expedited_attr.attr,
         NULL
 };