rcu: Ignore userspace extended quiescent state by default

By default we don't want to enter into RCU extended quiescent
state while in userspace because doing this produces some overhead
(eg: use of syscall slowpath). Set it off by default and ready to
run when some feature like adaptive tickless need it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h
index 10cc2f9f8433..5faf05d68326 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.h
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ struct rcu_dynticks {
         int tick_nohz_enabled_snap; /* Previously seen value from sysfs. */
 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ */
 #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
+        bool ignore_user_qs;        /* Treat userspace as extended QS or not */
         bool in_user;               /* Is the CPU in userland from RCU POV? */
 #endif
 };