rcu: Add Kconfig option to expedite grace periods during boot

This commit adds a CONFIG_RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT Kconfig parameter
that emulates a very early boot rcu_expedite_gp().  A late-boot
call to rcu_end_inkernel_boot() will provide the corresponding
rcu_unexpedite_gp().  The late-boot call to rcu_end_inkernel_boot()
should be made just before init is spawned.

According to Arjan:

> To show the boot time, I'm using the timestamp of the "Write protecting"
> line, that's pretty much the last thing we print prior to ring 3 execution.
>
> A kernel with default RCU behavior (inside KVM, only virtual devices)
> looks like this:
>
> [    0.038724] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k
>
> a kernel with expedited RCU (using the command line option, so that I
> don't have to recompile between measurements and thus am completely
> oranges-to-oranges)
>
> [    0.031768] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k
>
> which, in percentage, is an 18% improvement.

Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index f5dbc6d4261b..9a0592516f48 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -791,6 +791,19 @@ config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
 
 endchoice
 
+config RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT
+	bool
+	default n
+	help
+	  This option enables expedited grace periods at boot time,
+	  as if rcu_expedite_gp() had been invoked early in boot.
+	  The corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp() is invoked from
+	  rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), which is intended to be invoked
+	  at the end of the kernel-only boot sequence, just before
+	  init is exec'ed.
+
+	  Accept the default if unsure.
+
 endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
 
 config BUILD_BIN2C