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authorPaul E. McKenney2017-05-17 08:43:40 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney2017-06-08 18:52:44 -0700
commit0af92d46098a092aa5817dfeb6d24a8d85b66205 (patch)
tree6e0baa0ac009965a0c7c441d6f2670de35a10433 /kernel
parent44c65ff2e3b0b48250a970183ab53b0602c25764 (diff)
rcu: Move RCU non-debug Kconfig options to kernel/rcu
RCU's Kconfig options are scattered, and there are enough of them that it would be good for them to be more centralized. This commit therefore extracts RCU's Kconfig options from init/Kconfig into a new kernel/rcu/Kconfig file. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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+#
+# RCU-related configuration options
+#
+
+menu "RCU Subsystem"
+
+config TREE_RCU
+ bool
+ default y if !PREEMPT && SMP
+ help
+ This option selects the RCU implementation that is
+ designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
+ thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to
+ smaller systems.
+
+config PREEMPT_RCU
+ bool
+ default y if PREEMPT
+ help
+ This option selects the RCU implementation that is
+ designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
+ thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
+ is also required. It also scales down nicely to
+ smaller systems.
+
+ Select this option if you are unsure.
+
+config TINY_RCU
+ bool
+ default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP
+ help
+ This option selects the RCU implementation that is
+ designed for UP systems from which real-time response
+ is not required. This option greatly reduces the
+ memory footprint of RCU.
+
+config RCU_EXPERT
+ bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
+ default n
+ help
+ This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
+ expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default,
+ no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
+ side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
+ sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
+ obscure RCU options to be set up.
+
+ Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
+
+ Say N if you are unsure.
+
+config SRCU
+ bool
+ help
+ This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
+ permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
+ sections.
+
+config TINY_SRCU
+ bool
+ default y if SRCU && TINY_RCU
+ help
+ This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU.
+
+config TREE_SRCU
+ bool
+ default y if SRCU && !TINY_RCU
+ help
+ This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU.
+
+config TASKS_RCU
+ bool
+ default n
+ select SRCU
+ help
+ This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
+ only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
+ user-mode execution as quiescent states.
+
+config RCU_STALL_COMMON
+ def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
+ help
+ This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
+ the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow
+ the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
+ making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
+
+config RCU_NEED_SEGCBLIST
+ def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || TREE_SRCU )
+
+config CONTEXT_TRACKING
+ bool
+
+config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
+ bool "Force context tracking"
+ depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
+ default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
+ help
+ The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
+ support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
+ other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
+ dynticks working.
+
+ This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
+ context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
+ requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
+ Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
+ for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
+ userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
+ accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
+ dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
+ CPUs in the system.
+
+ Say Y only if you're working on the development of an
+ architecture backend for the context tracking.
+
+ Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
+ don't want in production.
+
+
+config RCU_FANOUT
+ int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
+ range 2 64 if 64BIT
+ range 2 32 if !64BIT
+ depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
+ default 64 if 64BIT
+ default 32 if !64BIT
+ help
+ This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
+ of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
+ large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth
+ root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
+ The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
+ systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
+ itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
+ code paths on small(er) systems.
+
+ Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
+ Take the default if unsure.
+
+config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
+ int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
+ range 2 64 if 64BIT
+ range 2 32 if !64BIT
+ depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT
+ default 16
+ help
+ This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
+ implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
+ against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their
+ scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
+ want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
+ lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems
+ (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
+ value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
+ number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
+ initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
+ are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
+ skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
+ leaf-level fanouts work well. That said, setting leaf-level
+ fanout to a large number will likely cause problematic
+ lock contention on the leaf-level rcu_node structures unless
+ you boot with the skew_tick kernel parameter.
+
+ Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
+
+ Select the maximum permissible value for large systems, but
+ please understand that you may also need to set the skew_tick
+ kernel boot parameter to avoid contention on the rcu_node
+ structure's locks.
+
+ Take the default if unsure.
+
+config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
+ bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
+ depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
+ default n
+ help
+ This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
+ they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
+ these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
+ default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
+ parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other
+ hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
+ for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
+
+ Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
+ don't care about increased grace-period durations.
+
+ Say N if you are unsure.
+
+config RCU_BOOST
+ bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
+ depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
+ default n
+ help
+ This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
+ block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
+ This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
+ callback invocation for all flavors of RCU.
+
+ Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
+ Say N here if you are unsure.
+
+config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
+ int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
+ range 0 3000
+ depends on RCU_BOOST
+ default 500
+ help
+ This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
+ a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
+ readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader
+ blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
+
+ Accept the default if unsure.
+
+config RCU_NOCB_CPU
+ bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
+ depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU
+ depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
+ default n
+ help
+ Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
+ real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU
+ callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
+ asymmetric multiprocessors.
+
+ This option offloads callback invocation from the set of
+ CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.
+ For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to
+ invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded,
+ and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and
+ "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running
+ on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
+ between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
+ to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
+
+ Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
+ Say N here if you are unsure.
+
+endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"