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| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 239 | ||||
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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index dc431c6..bc4c180 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -472,244 +472,7 @@ config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" -menu "RCU Subsystem" - -config TREE_RCU - bool - default y if !PREEMPT && SMP - help - This option selects the RCU implementation that is - designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or - thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to - smaller systems. - -config PREEMPT_RCU - bool - default y if PREEMPT - help - This option selects the RCU implementation that is - designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or - thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response - is also required. It also scales down nicely to - smaller systems. - - Select this option if you are unsure. - -config TINY_RCU - bool - default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP - help - This option selects the RCU implementation that is - designed for UP systems from which real-time response - is not required. This option greatly reduces the - memory footprint of RCU. - -config RCU_EXPERT - bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration" - default n - help - This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make - expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default, - no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial - side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all - sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous - obscure RCU options to be set up. - - Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU. - - Say N if you are unsure. - -config SRCU - bool - help - This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version - permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical - sections. - -config TINY_SRCU - bool - default y if SRCU && TINY_RCU - help - This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU. - -config TREE_SRCU - bool - default y if SRCU && !TINY_RCU - help - This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU. - -config TASKS_RCU - bool - default n - select SRCU - 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. - -config RCU_STALL_COMMON - def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) - help - This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between - the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow - the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while - making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. - -config RCU_NEED_SEGCBLIST - def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || TREE_SRCU ) - -config CONTEXT_TRACKING - bool - -config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE - bool "Force context tracking" - depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING - default y if !NO_HZ_FULL - help - The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to - support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also - other dependencies to provide in order to make the full - dynticks working. - - This option stands for testing when an arch implements the - context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the - requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. - Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support - for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU - userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime - accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full - dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all - CPUs in the system. - - Say Y only if you're working on the development of an - architecture backend for the context tracking. - - Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you - don't want in production. - - -config RCU_FANOUT - int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" - range 2 64 if 64BIT - range 2 32 if !64BIT - depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT - default 64 if 64BIT - default 32 if !64BIT - help - This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations - of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with - large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth - root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. - The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production - systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation - itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system - code paths on small(er) systems. - - Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. - Take the default if unsure. - -config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF - int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" - range 2 64 if 64BIT - range 2 32 if !64BIT - depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT - default 16 - help - This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical - implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses - against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their - scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will - want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps - lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems - (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this - value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the - number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period - initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus - are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to - skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large - leaf-level fanouts work well. That said, setting leaf-level - fanout to a large number will likely cause problematic - lock contention on the leaf-level rcu_node structures unless - you boot with the skew_tick kernel parameter. - - Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. - - Select the maximum permissible value for large systems, but - please understand that you may also need to set the skew_tick - kernel boot parameter to avoid contention on the rcu_node - structure's locks. - - Take the default if unsure. - -config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ - bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" - depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT - default n - help - This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if - they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking - these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by - default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay - parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other - hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, - for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). - - Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you - don't care about increased grace-period durations. - - Say N if you are unsure. - -config RCU_BOOST - bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" - depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT - default n - help - This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that - block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. - This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU - callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. - - Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads - Say N here if you are unsure. - -config RCU_BOOST_DELAY - int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" - range 0 3000 - depends on RCU_BOOST - default 500 - help - This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of - a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU - readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader - blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. - - Accept the default if unsure. - -config RCU_NOCB_CPU - bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" - depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU - depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL - default n - help - Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or - real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU - callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered - asymmetric multiprocessors. - - This option offloads callback invocation from the set of - CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. - For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to - invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, - and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and - "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running - on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted - between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used - to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. - - Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. - Say N here if you are unsure. - -endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" +source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig" config BUILD_BIN2C bool diff --git a/kernel/rcu/Kconfig b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8edff43 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,242 @@ +# +# RCU-related configuration options +# + +menu "RCU Subsystem" + +config TREE_RCU + bool + default y if !PREEMPT && SMP + help + This option selects the RCU implementation that is + designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or + thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to + smaller systems. + +config PREEMPT_RCU + bool + default y if PREEMPT + help + This option selects the RCU implementation that is + designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or + thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response + is also required. It also scales down nicely to + smaller systems. + + Select this option if you are unsure. + +config TINY_RCU + bool + default y if !PREEMPT && !SMP + help + This option selects the RCU implementation that is + designed for UP systems from which real-time response + is not required. This option greatly reduces the + memory footprint of RCU. + +config RCU_EXPERT + bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration" + default n + help + This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make + expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration. By default, + no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial + side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all + sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous + obscure RCU options to be set up. + + Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU. + + Say N if you are unsure. + +config SRCU + bool + help + This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version + permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical + sections. + +config TINY_SRCU + bool + default y if SRCU && TINY_RCU + help + This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU. + +config TREE_SRCU + bool + default y if SRCU && !TINY_RCU + help + This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU. + +config TASKS_RCU + bool + default n + select SRCU + 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. + +config RCU_STALL_COMMON + def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || RCU_TRACE ) + help + This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between + the TINY and TREE variants of RCU. The purpose is to allow + the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while + making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants. + +config RCU_NEED_SEGCBLIST + def_bool ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU || TREE_SRCU ) + +config CONTEXT_TRACKING + bool + +config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE + bool "Force context tracking" + depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING + default y if !NO_HZ_FULL + help + The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to + support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also + other dependencies to provide in order to make the full + dynticks working. + + This option stands for testing when an arch implements the + context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the + requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. + Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support + for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU + userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime + accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full + dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all + CPUs in the system. + + Say Y only if you're working on the development of an + architecture backend for the context tracking. + + Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you + don't want in production. + + +config RCU_FANOUT + int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" + range 2 64 if 64BIT + range 2 32 if !64BIT + depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT + default 64 if 64BIT + default 32 if !64BIT + help + This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations + of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with + large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the fourth + root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large. + The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production + systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation + itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system + code paths on small(er) systems. + + Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. + Take the default if unsure. + +config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF + int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value" + range 2 64 if 64BIT + range 2 32 if !64BIT + depends on (TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU) && RCU_EXPERT + default 16 + help + This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical + implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses + against lock contention. Systems that synchronize their + scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will + want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps + lock contention levels acceptably low. Very large systems + (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this + value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the + number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period + initialization. These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus + are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to + skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large + leaf-level fanouts work well. That said, setting leaf-level + fanout to a large number will likely cause problematic + lock contention on the leaf-level rcu_node structures unless + you boot with the skew_tick kernel parameter. + + Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. + + Select the maximum permissible value for large systems, but + please understand that you may also need to set the skew_tick + kernel boot parameter to avoid contention on the rcu_node + structure's locks. + + Take the default if unsure. + +config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ + bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" + depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT + default n + help + This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if + they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking + these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by + default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay + parameter), thus improving energy efficiency. On the other + hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods, + for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu(). + + Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you + don't care about increased grace-period durations. + + Say N if you are unsure. + +config RCU_BOOST + bool "Enable RCU priority boosting" + depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT + default n + help + This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that + block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long. + This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU + callback invocation for all flavors of RCU. + + Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads + Say N here if you are unsure. + +config RCU_BOOST_DELAY + int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start" + range 0 3000 + depends on RCU_BOOST + default 500 + help + This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of + a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU + readers blocking that grace period. Note that any RCU reader + blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately. + + Accept the default if unsure. + +config RCU_NOCB_CPU + bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs" + depends on TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU + depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL + default n + help + Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or + real-time workloads. It can also be used to offload RCU + callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered + asymmetric multiprocessors. + + This option offloads callback invocation from the set of + CPUs specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter. + For each such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to + invoke callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, + and where the "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p" for RCU-preempt, and + "s" for RCU-sched. Nothing prevents this kthread from running + on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted + between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used + to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired. + + Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter. + Say N here if you are unsure. + +endmenu # "RCU Subsystem" |
