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.]

CRs-fixed: 634363
Change-Id: I45addcb532fdaa47df3019ada3283e293ed40249
Signed-off-by: Antti P Miettinen <amiettinen@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Git-commit: 3705b88db0d7cc4a097c32d9e554054103d3f807
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
[ joonwoop@codeaurora.org: resolved merge conflicts.]
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>

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
 };
 

kernel/rcu.h

@@ -109,4 +109,6 @@ static inline bool __rcu_reclaim(char *rn, struct rcu_head *head)
 	}
 }
 
+extern int rcu_expedited;
+
 #endif /* __LINUX_RCU_H */

kernel/rcupdate.c

@@ -45,12 +45,15 @@
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/hardirq.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
 
 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/events/rcu.h>
 
 #include "rcu.h"
 
+module_param(rcu_expedited, int, 0);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
 static struct lock_class_key rcu_lock_key;
 struct lockdep_map rcu_lock_map =

kernel/rcutiny_plugin.h

@@ -750,7 +750,10 @@ void synchronize_rcu(void)
 		return;
 
 	/* Once we get past the fastpath checks, same code as rcu_barrier(). */
-	rcu_barrier();
+	if (rcu_expedited)
+		synchronize_rcu_expedited();
+	else
+		rcu_barrier();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_rcu);
 

kernel/rcutree.c

@@ -1926,7 +1926,10 @@ 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);
 
@@ -1947,7 +1950,10 @@ 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);
 

kernel/rcutree_plugin.h

@@ -737,7 +737,10 @@ void synchronize_rcu(void)
 			   "Illegal synchronize_rcu() in RCU read-side critical section");
 	if (!rcu_scheduler_active)
 		return;
-	wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu);
+	if (rcu_expedited)
+		synchronize_rcu_expedited();
+	else
+		wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_rcu);