rcu: Enable elimination of Tree-RCU softirq processing

Some workloads need to change kthread priority for RCU core processing
without affecting other softirq work.  This commit therefore introduces
the rcutree.use_softirq kernel boot parameter, which moves the RCU core
work from softirq to a per-CPU SCHED_OTHER kthread named rcuc.  Use of
SCHED_OTHER approach avoids the scalability problems that appeared
with the earlier attempt to move RCU core processing to from softirq
to kthreads.  That said, kernels built with RCU_BOOST=y will run the
rcuc kthreads at the RCU-boosting priority.

Note that rcutree.use_softirq=0 must be specified to move RCU core
processing to the rcuc kthreads: rcutree.use_softirq=1 is the default.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ paulmck: Adjust for invoke_rcu_callbacks() only ever being invoked
  from RCU core processing, in contrast to softirq->rcuc transition
  in old mainline RCU priority boosting. ]
[ paulmck: Avoid wakeups when scheduler might have invoked rcu_read_unlock()
  while holding rq or pi locks, also possibly fixing a pre-existing latent
  bug involving raise_softirq()-induced wakeups. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.h b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
index e253d11af3c4..a1a72a1ecb02 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
@@ -407,8 +407,8 @@ void call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, rcu_callback_t func);
 static void dump_blkd_tasks(struct rcu_node *rnp, int ncheck);
 static void rcu_initiate_boost(struct rcu_node *rnp, unsigned long flags);
 static void rcu_preempt_boost_start_gp(struct rcu_node *rnp);
-static void invoke_rcu_callbacks_kthread(void);
 static bool rcu_is_callbacks_kthread(void);
+static void rcu_cpu_kthread_setup(unsigned int cpu);
 static void __init rcu_spawn_boost_kthreads(void);
 static void rcu_prepare_kthreads(int cpu);
 static void rcu_cleanup_after_idle(void);