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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst index 45278e2974c0..04ed8bf27a0e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst @@ -370,8 +370,8 @@ pointer fetched by rcu_dereference() may not be used outside of the outermost RCU read-side critical section containing that rcu_dereference(), unless protection of the corresponding data element has been passed from RCU to some other synchronization -mechanism, most commonly locking or `reference -counting <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt>`__. +mechanism, most commonly locking or reference counting +(see ../../rcuref.rst). .. |high-quality implementation of C11 memory_order_consume [PDF]| replace:: high-quality implementation of C11 ``memory_order_consume`` [PDF] .. _high-quality implementation of C11 memory_order_consume [PDF]: http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/consume.2015.07.13a.pdf @@ -2654,6 +2654,38 @@ synchronize_rcu(), and rcu_barrier(), respectively. In three APIs are therefore implemented by separate functions that check for voluntary context switches. +Tasks Rude RCU +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Some forms of tracing need to wait for all preemption-disabled regions +of code running on any online CPU, including those executed when RCU is +not watching. This means that synchronize_rcu() is insufficient, and +Tasks Rude RCU must be used instead. This flavor of RCU does its work by +forcing a workqueue to be scheduled on each online CPU, hence the "Rude" +moniker. And this operation is considered to be quite rude by real-time +workloads that don't want their ``nohz_full`` CPUs receiving IPIs and +by battery-powered systems that don't want their idle CPUs to be awakened. + +The tasks-rude-RCU API is also reader-marking-free and thus quite compact, +consisting of call_rcu_tasks_rude(), synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude(), +and rcu_barrier_tasks_rude(). + +Tasks Trace RCU +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Some forms of tracing need to sleep in readers, but cannot tolerate +SRCU's read-side overhead, which includes a full memory barrier in both +srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock(). This need is handled by a +Tasks Trace RCU that uses scheduler locking and IPIs to synchronize with +readers. Real-time systems that cannot tolerate IPIs may build their +kernels with ``CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y``, which avoids the IPIs at +the expense of adding full memory barriers to the read-side primitives. + +The tasks-trace-RCU API is also reasonably compact, +consisting of rcu_read_lock_trace(), rcu_read_unlock_trace(), +rcu_read_lock_trace_held(), call_rcu_tasks_trace(), +synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(), and rcu_barrier_tasks_trace(). + Possible Future Changes ----------------------- |