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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2008-03-10 11:43:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-03-10 18:01:20 -0700 |
| commit | 21bbb39c376ce6beeeb549d155f0d53dc76ed000 (patch) | |
| tree | 762d0ae6d1cd88aaa231739c3e88437e52ffa387 /kernel/Kconfig.preempt | |
| parent | f47831fabaf0206abc56ee5a33fd006fe29b6dc6 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-21bbb39c376ce6beeeb549d155f0d53dc76ed000.tar.gz lwn-21bbb39c376ce6beeeb549d155f0d53dc76ed000.zip | |
rcu: move PREEMPT_RCU config option back under PREEMPT
The original preemptible-RCU patch put the choice between classic and
preemptible RCU into kernel/Kconfig.preempt, which resulted in build failures
on machines not supporting CONFIG_PREEMPT. This choice was therefore moved to
init/Kconfig, which worked, but placed the choice between classic and
preemptible RCU at the top level, a very obtuse choice indeed.
This patch changes from the Kconfig "choice" mechanism to a pair of booleans,
only one of which (CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU) is user-visible, and is located in
kernel/Kconfig.preempt, where one would expect it to be. The other
(CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU) is in init/Kconfig so that it is available to all
architectures, hopefully avoiding build breakage. Thanks to Roman Zippel for
suggesting this approach.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/Kconfig.preempt')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/Kconfig.preempt | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt index 0669b70fa6a3..9fdba03dc1fc 100644 --- a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt +++ b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt @@ -52,8 +52,23 @@ config PREEMPT endchoice +config PREEMPT_RCU + bool "Preemptible RCU" + depends on PREEMPT + default n + help + This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making certain + RCU sections preemptible. Normally RCU code is non-preemptible, if + this option is selected then read-only RCU sections become + preemptible. This helps latency, but may expose bugs due to + now-naive assumptions about each RCU read-side critical section + remaining on a given CPU through its execution. + + Say N if you are unsure. + config RCU_TRACE bool "Enable tracing for RCU - currently stats in debugfs" + depends on PREEMPT_RCU select DEBUG_FS default y help |