From adf5091e6ccaa02905e7a28f9ff44f46c7f4c230 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:20:21 -0700 Subject: rcu: New rcu_user_enter() and rcu_user_exit() APIs RCU currently insists that only idle tasks can enter RCU idle mode, which prohibits an adaptive tickless kernel (AKA nohz cpusets), which in turn would mean that usermode execution would always take scheduling-clock interrupts, even when there is only one task runnable on the CPU in question. This commit therefore adds rcu_user_enter() and rcu_user_exit(), which allow non-idle tasks to enter RCU idle mode. These are quite similar to rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(), respectively, except that they omit the idle-task checks. [ Updated to use "user" flag rather than separate check functions. ] [ paulmck: Updated to drop exports of new functions based on Josh's patch getting rid of the need for them. ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef Cc: Hakan Akkan Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Max Krasnyansky Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich Cc: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h index 0fbbd52e01f9..d8b20bfd4795 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h @@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ extern void rcu_idle_enter(void); extern void rcu_idle_exit(void); extern void rcu_irq_enter(void); extern void rcu_irq_exit(void); +extern void rcu_user_enter(void); +extern void rcu_user_exit(void); extern void exit_rcu(void); /** -- cgit v1.2.3