From: Julia Cartwright <julia@xxxxxx> Expedited RCU grace periods send IPIs to all non-idle CPUs, and thus can disrupt time-critical code in real-time applications. However, there is a portion of boot-time processing (presumably before any real-time applications have started) where expedited RCU grace periods are the only option. And so it is that experience with the -rt patchset indicates that PREEMPT_RT systems should always set the rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot kernel boot parameter. This commit therefore makes the post-boot application environment safe for real-time applications by making PREEMPT_RT systems disable the rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot kernel boot parameter and acting as if this parameter had been set. This means that post-boot calls to synchronize_rcu_expedited() will be treated as if they were instead calls to synchronize_rcu(), thus preventing the IPIs, and thus avoiding disrupting real-time applications. Suggested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Julia Cartwright <julia@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ paulmck: Update kernel-parameters.txt accordingly. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++++ kernel/rcu/update.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 521255f..e0008d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4474,6 +4474,13 @@ only normal grace-period primitives. No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. + But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables + this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting + it to the value one, that is, converting any + post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace + period to instead use normal non-expedited + grace-period processing. + rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning diff --git a/kernel/rcu/update.c b/kernel/rcu/update.c index 39334d2..b95ae86 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/update.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/update.c @@ -56,8 +56,10 @@ #ifndef CONFIG_TINY_RCU module_param(rcu_expedited, int, 0); module_param(rcu_normal, int, 0); -static int rcu_normal_after_boot; +static int rcu_normal_after_boot = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT); +#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT module_param(rcu_normal_after_boot, int, 0); +#endif #endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */ #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC -- 2.9.5
