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authorAntti P Miettinen <ananaza@iki.fi>2012-10-05 09:59:15 +0300
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-10-23 14:54:08 -0700
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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>
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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 */