rcu: Avoid waking up CPUs having only kfree_rcu() callbacks

When CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is enabled, RCU will allow a given CPU to
enter dyntick-idle mode even if it still has RCU callbacks queued.
RCU avoids system hangs in this case by scheduling a timer for several
jiffies in the future.  However, if all of the callbacks on that CPU
are from kfree_rcu(), there is no reason to wake the CPU up, as it is
not a problem to defer freeing of memory.

This commit therefore tracks the number of callbacks on a given CPU
that are from kfree_rcu(), and avoids scheduling the timer if all of
a given CPU's callbacks are from kfree_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu.h
index aa88baa..a074b0b 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu.h
@@ -76,16 +76,18 @@ static inline void debug_rcu_head_unqueue(struct rcu_head *head)
 
 extern void kfree(const void *);
 
-static inline void __rcu_reclaim(char *rn, struct rcu_head *head)
+static inline bool __rcu_reclaim(char *rn, struct rcu_head *head)
 {
 	unsigned long offset = (unsigned long)head->func;
 
 	if (__is_kfree_rcu_offset(offset)) {
 		RCU_TRACE(trace_rcu_invoke_kfree_callback(rn, head, offset));
 		kfree((void *)head - offset);
+		return 1;
 	} else {
 		RCU_TRACE(trace_rcu_invoke_callback(rn, head));
 		head->func(head);
+		return 0;
 	}
 }