From e260be673a15b6125068270e0216a3bfbfc12f87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:08:24 +0100 Subject: Preempt-RCU: implementation This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details of this implementation can be found in this paper - http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf and the article- http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/ This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of RCU don't disable preemption. As a consequence of keeping track of RCU readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper). This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations and can be switched to at compiler. Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ] Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/Kconfig.preempt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/Kconfig.preempt') diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt index c64ce9c..61fa116 100644 --- a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt +++ b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt @@ -63,3 +63,13 @@ config PREEMPT_BKL Say Y here if you are building a kernel for a desktop system. Say N if you are unsure. +config RCU_TRACE + bool "Enable tracing for RCU - currently stats in debugfs" + select DEBUG_FS + default y + help + This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats + in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. + + Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing + Say N if you are unsure. -- cgit v1.1