rcu: Remove waitqueue usage for cpu, node, and boost kthreads

It is not necessary to use waitqueues for the RCU kthreads because
we always know exactly which thread is to be awakened.  In addition,
wake_up() only issues an actual wakeup when there is a thread waiting on
the queue, which was why there was an extra explicit wake_up_process()
to get the RCU kthreads started.

Eliminating the waitqueues (and wake_up()) in favor of wake_up_process()
eliminates the need for the initial wake_up_process() and also shrinks
the data structure size a bit.  The wakeup logic is placed in a new
rcu_wait() macro.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index ed339702481d..049f2787a984 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -1196,8 +1196,7 @@ static int rcu_boost_kthread(void *arg)
 
         for (;;) {
                 rnp->boost_kthread_status = RCU_KTHREAD_WAITING;
-                wait_event_interruptible(rnp->boost_wq, rnp->boost_tasks ||
-                                                        rnp->exp_tasks);
+                rcu_wait(rnp->boost_tasks || rnp->exp_tasks);
                 rnp->boost_kthread_status = RCU_KTHREAD_RUNNING;
                 more2boost = rcu_boost(rnp);
                 if (more2boost)
@@ -1275,14 +1274,6 @@ static void rcu_preempt_boost_start_gp(struct rcu_node *rnp)
 }
 
 /*
- * Initialize the RCU-boost waitqueue.
- */
-static void __init rcu_init_boost_waitqueue(struct rcu_node *rnp)
-{
-        init_waitqueue_head(&rnp->boost_wq);
-}
-
-/*
  * Create an RCU-boost kthread for the specified node if one does not
  * already exist.  We only create this kthread for preemptible RCU.
  * Returns zero if all is well, a negated errno otherwise.
@@ -1306,7 +1297,6 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp,
         raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags);
         rnp->boost_kthread_task = t;
         raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
-        wake_up_process(t);
         sp.sched_priority = RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO;
         sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
         return 0;
@@ -1328,10 +1318,6 @@ static void rcu_preempt_boost_start_gp(struct rcu_node *rnp)
 {
 }
 
-static void __init rcu_init_boost_waitqueue(struct rcu_node *rnp)
-{
-}
-
 static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp,
                                                  struct rcu_node *rnp,
                                                  int rnp_index)