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.]

Signed-off-by: Antti P Miettinen <amiettinen@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu.h
index 8ba99cdc6515..20dfba576c2b 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu.h
+++ b/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 */