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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-22 06:26:51 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-22 06:26:51 +0400
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Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar: "This is the v3.5 RCU tree from Paul E. McKenney: 1) A set of improvements and fixes to the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ feature (with more on the way for 3.6). Posted to LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/324 (commits 1-3 and 5), https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/16/611 (commit 4), https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/390 (commit 6), and https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/4/410 (commit 7, combined with the other commits for the convenience of the tester). 2) Changes to make rcu_barrier() avoid disrupting execution of CPUs that have no RCU callbacks. Posted to LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/322. 3) A couple of commits that improve the efficiency of the interaction between preemptible RCU and the scheduler, these two being all that survived an abortive attempt to allow preemptible RCU's __rcu_read_lock() to be inlined. The full set was posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/14/143, and the first and third patches of that set remain. 4) Lai Jiangshan's algorithmic implementation of SRCU, which includes call_srcu() and srcu_barrier(). A major feature of this new implementation is that synchronize_srcu() no longer disturbs the execution of other CPUs. This work is based on earlier implementations by Peter Zijlstra and Paul E. McKenney. Posted to LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/22/82. 5) A number of miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements which were posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/353 with subsequent updates posted to LKML." * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits) rcu: Make rcu_barrier() less disruptive rcu: Explicitly initialize RCU_FAST_NO_HZ per-CPU variables rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle timer migration rcu: Update RCU maintainership rcu: Make exit_rcu() more precise and consolidate rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation rcu: Ensure that RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timers expire on correct CPU rcu: Add rcutorture test for call_srcu() rcu: Implement per-domain single-threaded call_srcu() state machine rcu: Use single value to handle expedited SRCU grace periods rcu: Improve srcu_readers_active_idx()'s cache locality rcu: Remove unused srcu_barrier() rcu: Implement a variant of Peter's SRCU algorithm rcu: Improve SRCU's wait_idx() comments rcu: Flip ->completed only once per SRCU grace period rcu: Increment upper bit only for srcu_read_lock() rcu: Remove fast check path from __synchronize_srcu() rcu: Direct algorithmic SRCU implementation rcu: Introduce rcutorture testing for rcu_barrier() timer: Fix mod_timer_pinned() header comment ...
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ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
- rcupdate.blimit= [KNL,BOOT]
+ rcutree.blimit= [KNL,BOOT]
Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process
in one batch.
- rcupdate.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT]
+ rcutree.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT]
Set threshold of queued
RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.
- rcupdate.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT]
+ rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT]
Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
batch limiting is re-enabled.
+ rcutree.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
+
+ rcutree.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
+
+ rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts.
+
+ rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts.
+
+ rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts.
+
+ rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Test RCU readers from irq handlers.
+
+ rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
+
+ rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
+ stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
+ test, hence the "fake".
+
+ rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set number of RCU readers.
+
+ rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
+
+ rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
+ zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
+
+ rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
+ allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
+ during the rcutorture test.
+
+ rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
+ is useful for hands-off automated testing.
+
+ rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
+ warnings, zero to disable.
+
+ rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
+
+ rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
+
+ rcutorture.stutter= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
+ five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
+ wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
+ ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
+
+ rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
+ "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
+ under test support RCU priority boosting.
+
+ rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
+
+ rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Interval (s) between each boost test.
+
+ rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
+ rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
+
+ rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Specify the RCU implementation to test.
+
+ rcutorture.verbose= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Enable additional printk() statements.
+
rdinit= [KNL]
Format: <full_path>
Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,