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, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 74df86bd9204..f9c17c399538 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -2224,7 +2224,10 @@ void synchronize_sched(void)
                            "Illegal synchronize_sched() in RCU-sched read-side critical section");
         if (rcu_blocking_is_gp())
                 return;
-        wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu_sched);
+        if (rcu_expedited)
+                synchronize_sched_expedited();
+        else
+                wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu_sched);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_sched);
 
@@ -2245,7 +2248,10 @@ void synchronize_rcu_bh(void)
                            "Illegal synchronize_rcu_bh() in RCU-bh read-side critical section");
         if (rcu_blocking_is_gp())
                 return;
-        wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu_bh);
+        if (rcu_expedited)
+                synchronize_rcu_bh_expedited();
+        else
+                wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu_bh);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_rcu_bh);
 
@@ -2328,7 +2334,7 @@ void synchronize_sched_expedited(void)
                 if (trycount++ < 10) {
                         udelay(trycount * num_online_cpus());
                 } else {
-                        synchronize_sched();
+                        wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu_sched);
                         return;
                 }