context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystem

Create a new subsystem that probes on kernel boundaries
to keep track of the transitions between level contexts
with two basic initial contexts: user or kernel.

This is an abstraction of some RCU code that use such tracking
to implement its userspace extended quiescent state.

We need to pull this up from RCU into this new level of indirection
because this tracking is also going to be used to implement an "on
demand" generic virtual cputime accounting. A necessary step to
shutdown the tick while still accounting the cputime.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ paulmck: fix whitespace error and email address. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 5ac6ee0..2054e04 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -486,9 +486,13 @@ config PREEMPT_RCU
 	  This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
 	  the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
 
+config CONTEXT_TRACKING
+       bool
+
 config RCU_USER_QS
 	bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
-	depends on HAVE_RCU_USER_QS && SMP
+	depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING && SMP
+	select CONTEXT_TRACKING
 	help
 	  This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
 	  puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
@@ -497,24 +501,20 @@ config RCU_USER_QS
 	  try to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
 
 	  Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
-	  tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option.  It also
+	  dynticks mode, you shouldn't enable this option.  It also
 	  adds unnecessary overhead.
 
 	  If unsure say N
 
-config RCU_USER_QS_FORCE
-	bool "Force userspace extended QS by default"
-	depends on RCU_USER_QS
+config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
+	bool "Force context tracking"
+	depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
 	help
-	  Set the hooks in user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
-	  test this feature that treats userspace as an extended quiescent
-	  state until we have a real user like a full adaptive nohz option.
-
-	  Unless you want to hack and help the development of the full
-	  tickless feature, you shouldn't enable this option. It adds
-	  unnecessary overhead.
-
-	  If unsure say N
+	  Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
+	  test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended
+	  quiescent states.
+	  This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the
+	  full dynticks mode.
 
 config RCU_FANOUT
 	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"