rcu: Remove waitqueue usage for cpu, node, and boost kthreads

It is not necessary to use waitqueues for the RCU kthreads because
we always know exactly which thread is to be awakened.  In addition,
wake_up() only issues an actual wakeup when there is a thread waiting on
the queue, which was why there was an extra explicit wake_up_process()
to get the RCU kthreads started.

Eliminating the waitqueues (and wake_up()) in favor of wake_up_process()
eliminates the need for the initial wake_up_process() and also shrinks
the data structure size a bit.  The wakeup logic is placed in a new
rcu_wait() macro.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 5d96d68..05e254e 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, rcu_cpu_kthread_task);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, rcu_cpu_kthread_status);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, rcu_cpu_kthread_cpu);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, rcu_cpu_kthread_loops);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(wait_queue_head_t, rcu_cpu_wq);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(char, rcu_cpu_has_work);
 static char rcu_kthreads_spawnable;
 
@@ -1476,7 +1475,7 @@ static void invoke_rcu_cpu_kthread(void)
 		local_irq_restore(flags);
 		return;
 	}
-	wake_up(&__get_cpu_var(rcu_cpu_wq));
+	wake_up_process(__this_cpu_read(rcu_cpu_kthread_task));
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
@@ -1596,14 +1595,12 @@ static int rcu_cpu_kthread(void *arg)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int spincnt = 0;
 	unsigned int *statusp = &per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_status, cpu);
-	wait_queue_head_t *wqp = &per_cpu(rcu_cpu_wq, cpu);
 	char work;
 	char *workp = &per_cpu(rcu_cpu_has_work, cpu);
 
 	for (;;) {
 		*statusp = RCU_KTHREAD_WAITING;
-		wait_event_interruptible(*wqp,
-					 *workp != 0 || kthread_should_stop());
+		rcu_wait(*workp != 0 || kthread_should_stop());
 		local_bh_disable();
 		if (rcu_cpu_kthread_should_stop(cpu)) {
 			local_bh_enable();
@@ -1654,7 +1651,6 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_cpu_kthread(int cpu)
 	per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_cpu, cpu) = cpu;
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_task, cpu) != NULL);
 	per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_task, cpu) = t;
-	wake_up_process(t);
 	sp.sched_priority = RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO;
 	sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
 	return 0;
@@ -1677,8 +1673,7 @@ static int rcu_node_kthread(void *arg)
 
 	for (;;) {
 		rnp->node_kthread_status = RCU_KTHREAD_WAITING;
-		wait_event_interruptible(rnp->node_wq,
-					 atomic_read(&rnp->wakemask) != 0);
+		rcu_wait(atomic_read(&rnp->wakemask) != 0);
 		rnp->node_kthread_status = RCU_KTHREAD_RUNNING;
 		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags);
 		mask = atomic_xchg(&rnp->wakemask, 0);
@@ -1762,7 +1757,6 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_node_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp,
 		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags);
 		rnp->node_kthread_task = t;
 		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
-		wake_up_process(t);
 		sp.sched_priority = 99;
 		sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
 	}
@@ -1779,21 +1773,16 @@ static int __init rcu_spawn_kthreads(void)
 
 	rcu_kthreads_spawnable = 1;
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
-		init_waitqueue_head(&per_cpu(rcu_cpu_wq, cpu));
 		per_cpu(rcu_cpu_has_work, cpu) = 0;
 		if (cpu_online(cpu))
 			(void)rcu_spawn_one_cpu_kthread(cpu);
 	}
 	rnp = rcu_get_root(rcu_state);
-	init_waitqueue_head(&rnp->node_wq);
-	rcu_init_boost_waitqueue(rnp);
 	(void)rcu_spawn_one_node_kthread(rcu_state, rnp);
-	if (NUM_RCU_NODES > 1)
-		rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rcu_state, rnp) {
-			init_waitqueue_head(&rnp->node_wq);
-			rcu_init_boost_waitqueue(rnp);
+	if (NUM_RCU_NODES > 1) {
+		rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rcu_state, rnp)
 			(void)rcu_spawn_one_node_kthread(rcu_state, rnp);
-		}
+	}
 	return 0;
 }
 early_initcall(rcu_spawn_kthreads);