rcu: Add call_rcu_tasks()

This commit adds a new RCU-tasks flavor of RCU, which provides
call_rcu_tasks().  This RCU flavor's quiescent states are voluntary
context switch (not preemption!) and userspace execution (not the idle
loop -- use some sort of schedule_on_each_cpu() if you need to handle the
idle tasks.  Note that unlike other RCU flavors, these quiescent states
occur in tasks, not necessarily CPUs.  Includes fixes from Steven Rostedt.

This RCU flavor is assumed to have very infrequent latency-tolerant
updaters.  This assumption permits significant simplifications, including
a single global callback list protected by a single global lock, along
with a single task-private linked list containing all tasks that have not
yet passed through a quiescent state.  If experience shows this assumption
to be incorrect, the required additional complexity will be added.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index e84c642..c4539c4 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -507,6 +507,16 @@ config PREEMPT_RCU
 	  This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
 	  TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and, in the old days, TINY_PREEMPT_RCU.
 
+config TASKS_RCU
+	bool "Task_based RCU implementation using voluntary context switch"
+	default n
+	help
+	  This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
+	  only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
+	  user-mode execution as quiescent states.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config RCU_STALL_COMMON
 	def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE )
 	help