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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-04-20 12:19:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-05-27 12:59:04 -0700 |
| commit | 78cae10b3a90438689f8cedb66241ce9cff9c214 (patch) | |
| tree | 193a925f99d4a95cf0bc87d1700c830b1b29d999 /init | |
| parent | a3dc2948cec80f20a89e9b646d0c01b121e48e02 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-78cae10b3a90438689f8cedb66241ce9cff9c214.tar.gz lwn-78cae10b3a90438689f8cedb66241ce9cff9c214.zip | |
rcu: Create RCU_EXPERT Kconfig and hide booleans behind it
This commit creates an RCU_EXPERT Kconfig and hides the independent
boolean RCU-related user-visible Kconfig parameters behind it, namely
RCU_FAST_NO_HZ and RCU_BOOST. This prevents Kconfig from asking about
these parameters unless the user really wants to be asked.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 0ec82362cfc0..7eb4c7b3543c 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -501,6 +501,21 @@ config TINY_RCU endchoice +config RCU_EXPERT + bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration" + default n + help + This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make + expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default, + no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial + side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all + sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous + obscure RCU options to be set up. + + Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU. + + Say N if you are unsure. + config SRCU bool help @@ -613,7 +628,7 @@ config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" - depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP + depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT default n help This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if @@ -639,7 +654,7 @@ config TREE_RCU_TRACE config RCU_BOOST bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" - depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU + depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT default n help This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that |