rcu: Allow RCU CPU stall warnings to be off at boot, but manually enablable

Currently, if RCU CPU stall warnings are enabled, they are enabled
immediately upon boot.  They can be manually disabled via /sys (and
also re-enabled via /sys), and are automatically disabled upon panic.
However, some users need RCU CPU stalls to be disabled at boot time,
but to be enabled without rebuilding/rebooting.  For example, someone
running a real-time application in production might not want the
additional latency of RCU CPU stall detection in normal operation, but
might need to enable it at any point for fault isolation purposes.

This commit therefore provides a new CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE
kernel configuration parameter that maintains the current behavior
(enable at boot) by default, but allows a kernel to be configured
with RCU CPU stall detection built into the kernel, but disabled at
boot time.

Requested-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Requested-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 5d910beefff2..5aab7dabd0d5 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ module_param(qhimark, int, 0);
 module_param(qlowmark, int, 0);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
-int rcu_cpu_stall_suppress __read_mostly;
+int rcu_cpu_stall_suppress __read_mostly = RCU_CPU_STALL_SUPPRESS_INIT;
 module_param(rcu_cpu_stall_suppress, int, 0644);
 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR */