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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/rcu/Kconfig, branch v6.14</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Add rcuog kthreads to RCU_NOCB_CPU help text</title>
<updated>2024-11-12T20:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-09T18:00:39+00:00</published>
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The RCU_NOCB_CPU help text currently fails to mention rcuog kthreads,
so this commit adds this information.

Reported-by: Olivier Langlois &lt;olivier@trillion01.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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The RCU_NOCB_CPU help text currently fails to mention rcuog kthreads,
so this commit adds this information.

Reported-by: Olivier Langlois &lt;olivier@trillion01.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Create NEED_TASKS_RCU to factor out enablement logic</title>
<updated>2024-04-15T09:29:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-22T18:09:19+00:00</published>
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Currently, if a Kconfig option depends on TASKS_RCU, it conditionally does
"select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION".  This works, but requires any change in
this enablement logic to be replicated across all such "select" clauses.
This commit therefore creates a new NEED_TASKS_RCU Kconfig option so
that the default value of TASKS_RCU can depend on a combination of this
new option and any needed enablement logic, so that this logic is in
one place.

While in the area, also anticipate a likely future change by adding
PREEMPT_AUTO to that logic.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
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Currently, if a Kconfig option depends on TASKS_RCU, it conditionally does
"select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION".  This works, but requires any change in
this enablement logic to be replicated across all such "select" clauses.
This commit therefore creates a new NEED_TASKS_RCU Kconfig option so
that the default value of TASKS_RCU can depend on a combination of this
new option and any needed enablement logic, so that this logic is in
one place.

While in the area, also anticipate a likely future change by adding
PREEMPT_AUTO to that logic.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Make TINY_RCU depend on !PREEMPT_RCU rather than !PREEMPTION</title>
<updated>2024-04-15T09:29:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-14T23:33:55+00:00</published>
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Right now, TINY_RCU depends on (!PREEMPTION &amp;&amp; !SMP), which has served the
kernel well for many years due to the fact that PREEMPT_RCU is normally
a synonym for PREEMPTION.  But with the advent of lazy preemption,
it will be possible to have non-preemptible RCU in a preemptible kernel,
so that kernels could be built with PREEMPT_RCU=n and PREEMPTION=y.

This commit therefore makes TINY_RCU depend on (!PREEMPT_RCU &amp;&amp; !SMP),
thus allowing for a non-preemptible RCU in preemptible kernels.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
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Right now, TINY_RCU depends on (!PREEMPTION &amp;&amp; !SMP), which has served the
kernel well for many years due to the fact that PREEMPT_RCU is normally
a synonym for PREEMPTION.  But with the advent of lazy preemption,
it will be possible to have non-preemptible RCU in a preemptible kernel,
so that kernels could be built with PREEMPT_RCU=n and PREEMPTION=y.

This commit therefore makes TINY_RCU depend on (!PREEMPT_RCU &amp;&amp; !SMP),
thus allowing for a non-preemptible RCU in preemptible kernels.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Provide a boot time parameter to control lazy RCU</title>
<updated>2024-02-14T16:00:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qais Yousef</name>
<email>qyousef@layalina.io</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-03T01:12:52+00:00</published>
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To allow more flexible arrangements while still provide a single kernel
for distros, provide a boot time parameter to enable/disable lazy RCU.

Specify:

	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy=[y|1|n|0]

Which also requires

	rcu_nocbs=all

at boot time to enable/disable lazy RCU.

To disable it by default at build time when CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, the new
CONFIG_RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF can be used.

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef (Google) &lt;qyousef@layalina.io&gt;
Tested-by: Andrea Righi &lt;andrea.righi@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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To allow more flexible arrangements while still provide a single kernel
for distros, provide a boot time parameter to enable/disable lazy RCU.

Specify:

	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy=[y|1|n|0]

Which also requires

	rcu_nocbs=all

at boot time to enable/disable lazy RCU.

To disable it by default at build time when CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, the new
CONFIG_RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF can be used.

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef (Google) &lt;qyousef@layalina.io&gt;
Tested-by: Andrea Righi &lt;andrea.righi@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Employ jiffies-based backstop to callback time limit</title>
<updated>2023-05-11T20:42:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-31T16:05:56+00:00</published>
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Currently, if there are more than 100 ready-to-invoke RCU callbacks queued
on a given CPU, the rcu_do_batch() function sets a timeout for invocation
of the series.  This timeout defaulting to three milliseconds, and may
be adjusted using the rcutree.rcu_resched_ns kernel boot parameter.
This timeout is checked using local_clock(), but the overhead of this
function combined with the common-case very small callback-invocation
overhead means that local_clock() is checked every 32nd invocation.

This works well except for longer-than average callbacks.  For example,
a series of 500-microsecond-duration callbacks means that local_clock()
is checked only once every 16 milliseconds, which makes it difficult to
enforce a three-millisecond timeout.

This commit therefore adds a Kconfig option RCU_DOUBLE_CHECK_CB_TIME
that enables backup timeout checking using the coarser grained but
lighter weight jiffies.  If the jiffies counter detects a timeout,
then local_clock() is consulted even if this is not the 32nd callback.
This prevents the aforementioned 16-millisecond latency blow.

Reported-by: Domas Mituzas &lt;dmituzas@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently, if there are more than 100 ready-to-invoke RCU callbacks queued
on a given CPU, the rcu_do_batch() function sets a timeout for invocation
of the series.  This timeout defaulting to three milliseconds, and may
be adjusted using the rcutree.rcu_resched_ns kernel boot parameter.
This timeout is checked using local_clock(), but the overhead of this
function combined with the common-case very small callback-invocation
overhead means that local_clock() is checked every 32nd invocation.

This works well except for longer-than average callbacks.  For example,
a series of 500-microsecond-duration callbacks means that local_clock()
is checked only once every 16 milliseconds, which makes it difficult to
enforce a three-millisecond timeout.

This commit therefore adds a Kconfig option RCU_DOUBLE_CHECK_CB_TIME
that enables backup timeout checking using the coarser grained but
lighter weight jiffies.  If the jiffies counter detects a timeout,
then local_clock() is consulted even if this is not the 32nd callback.
This prevents the aforementioned 16-millisecond latency blow.

Reported-by: Domas Mituzas &lt;dmituzas@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Remove CONFIG_SRCU</title>
<updated>2023-04-05T13:47:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-24T20:52:49+00:00</published>
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Now that all references to CONFIG_SRCU have been removed, it is time to
remove CONFIG_SRCU itself.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
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Now that all references to CONFIG_SRCU have been removed, it is time to
remove CONFIG_SRCU itself.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'printk-for-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux</title>
<updated>2022-12-12T17:01:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-12T17:01:36+00:00</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add NMI-safe SRCU reader API. It uses atomic_inc() instead of
   this_cpu_inc() on strong load-store architectures.

 - Introduce new console_list_lock to synchronize a manipulation of the
   list of registered consoles and their flags.

   This is a first step in removing the big-kernel-lock-like behavior of
   console_lock(). This semaphore still serializes console-&gt;write()
   calbacks against:

      - each other. It primary prevents potential races between early
        and proper console drivers using the same device.

      - suspend()/resume() callbacks and init() operations in some
        drivers.

      - various other operations in the tty/vt and framebufer
        susbsystems. It is likely that console_lock() serializes even
        operations that are not directly conflicting with the
        console-&gt;write() callbacks here. This is the most complicated
        big-kernel-lock aspect of the console_lock() that will be hard
        to untangle.

 - Introduce new console_srcu lock that is used to safely iterate and
   access the registered console drivers under SRCU read lock.

   This is a prerequisite for introducing atomic console drivers and
   console kthreads. It will reduce the complexity of serialization
   against normal consoles and console_lock(). Also it should remove the
   risk of deadlock during critical situations, like Oops or panic, when
   only atomic consoles are registered.

 - Check whether the console is registered instead of enabled on many
   locations. It was a historical leftover.

 - Cleanly force a preferred console in xenfb code instead of a dirty
   hack.

 - A lot of code and comment clean ups and improvements.

* tag 'printk-for-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: (47 commits)
  printk: htmldocs: add missing description
  tty: serial: sh-sci: use setup() callback for early console
  printk: relieve console_lock of list synchronization duties
  tty: serial: kgdboc: use console_list_lock to trap exit
  tty: serial: kgdboc: synchronize tty_find_polling_driver() and register_console()
  tty: serial: kgdboc: use console_list_lock for list traversal
  tty: serial: kgdboc: use srcu console list iterator
  proc: consoles: use console_list_lock for list iteration
  tty: tty_io: use console_list_lock for list synchronization
  printk, xen: fbfront: create/use safe function for forcing preferred
  netconsole: avoid CON_ENABLED misuse to track registration
  usb: early: xhci-dbc: use console_is_registered()
  tty: serial: xilinx_uartps: use console_is_registered()
  tty: serial: samsung_tty: use console_is_registered()
  tty: serial: pic32_uart: use console_is_registered()
  tty: serial: earlycon: use console_is_registered()
  tty: hvc: use console_is_registered()
  efi: earlycon: use console_is_registered()
  tty: nfcon: use console_is_registered()
  serial_core: replace uart_console_enabled() with uart_console_registered()
  ...
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add NMI-safe SRCU reader API. It uses atomic_inc() instead of
   this_cpu_inc() on strong load-store architectures.

 - Introduce new console_list_lock to synchronize a manipulation of the
   list of registered consoles and their flags.

   This is a first step in removing the big-kernel-lock-like behavior of
   console_lock(). This semaphore still serializes console-&gt;write()
   calbacks against:

      - each other. It primary prevents potential races between early
        and proper console drivers using the same device.

      - suspend()/resume() callbacks and init() operations in some
        drivers.

      - various other operations in the tty/vt and framebufer
        susbsystems. It is likely that console_lock() serializes even
        operations that are not directly conflicting with the
        console-&gt;write() callbacks here. This is the most complicated
        big-kernel-lock aspect of the console_lock() that will be hard
        to untangle.

 - Introduce new console_srcu lock that is used to safely iterate and
   access the registered console drivers under SRCU read lock.

   This is a prerequisite for introducing atomic console drivers and
   console kthreads. It will reduce the complexity of serialization
   against normal consoles and console_lock(). Also it should remove the
   risk of deadlock during critical situations, like Oops or panic, when
   only atomic consoles are registered.

 - Check whether the console is registered instead of enabled on many
   locations. It was a historical leftover.

 - Cleanly force a preferred console in xenfb code instead of a dirty
   hack.

 - A lot of code and comment clean ups and improvements.

* tag 'printk-for-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: (47 commits)
  printk: htmldocs: add missing description
  tty: serial: sh-sci: use setup() callback for early console
  printk: relieve console_lock of list synchronization duties
  tty: serial: kgdboc: use console_list_lock to trap exit
  tty: serial: kgdboc: synchronize tty_find_polling_driver() and register_console()
  tty: serial: kgdboc: use console_list_lock for list traversal
  tty: serial: kgdboc: use srcu console list iterator
  proc: consoles: use console_list_lock for list iteration
  tty: tty_io: use console_list_lock for list synchronization
  printk, xen: fbfront: create/use safe function for forcing preferred
  netconsole: avoid CON_ENABLED misuse to track registration
  usb: early: xhci-dbc: use console_is_registered()
  tty: serial: xilinx_uartps: use console_is_registered()
  tty: serial: samsung_tty: use console_is_registered()
  tty: serial: pic32_uart: use console_is_registered()
  tty: serial: earlycon: use console_is_registered()
  tty: hvc: use console_is_registered()
  efi: earlycon: use console_is_registered()
  tty: nfcon: use console_is_registered()
  serial_core: replace uart_console_enabled() with uart_console_registered()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'doc.2022.10.20a', 'fixes.2022.10.21a', 'lazy.2022.11.30a', 'srcunmisafe.2022.11.09a', 'torture.2022.10.18c' and 'torturescript.2022.10.20a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2022-11-30T21:20:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-30T21:20:05+00:00</published>
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doc.2022.10.20a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2022.10.21a: Miscellaneous fixes.
lazy.2022.11.30a: Lazy call_rcu() and NOCB updates.
srcunmisafe.2022.11.09a: NMI-safe SRCU readers.
torture.2022.10.18c: Torture-test updates.
torturescript.2022.10.20a: Torture-test scripting updates.
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doc.2022.10.20a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2022.10.21a: Miscellaneous fixes.
lazy.2022.11.30a: Lazy call_rcu() and NOCB updates.
srcunmisafe.2022.11.09a: NMI-safe SRCU readers.
torture.2022.10.18c: Torture-test updates.
torturescript.2022.10.20a: Torture-test scripting updates.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Make SRCU mandatory</title>
<updated>2022-11-29T23:00:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-22T21:53:57+00:00</published>
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Kernels configured with CONFIG_PRINTK=n and CONFIG_SRCU=n get build
failures.  This causes trouble for deep embedded systems.  But given
that there are more than 25 instances of "select SRCU" in the kernel,
it is hard to believe that there are many kernels running in production
without SRCU.  This commit therefore makes SRCU mandatory.  The SRCU
Kconfig option remains for backwards compatibility, and will be removed
when it is no longer used.

[ paulmck: Update per kernel test robot feedback. ]

Reported-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reported-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt; # build-tested
Reviewed-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
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Kernels configured with CONFIG_PRINTK=n and CONFIG_SRCU=n get build
failures.  This causes trouble for deep embedded systems.  But given
that there are more than 25 instances of "select SRCU" in the kernel,
it is hard to believe that there are many kernels running in production
without SRCU.  This commit therefore makes SRCU mandatory.  The SRCU
Kconfig option remains for backwards compatibility, and will be removed
when it is no longer used.

[ paulmck: Update per kernel test robot feedback. ]

Reported-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reported-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt; # build-tested
Reviewed-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
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<title>rcu: Make call_rcu() lazy to save power</title>
<updated>2022-11-29T22:02:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Fernandes (Google)</name>
<email>joel@joelfernandes.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-16T16:22:54+00:00</published>
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Implement timer-based RCU callback batching (also known as lazy
callbacks). With this we save about 5-10% of power consumed due
to RCU requests that happen when system is lightly loaded or idle.

By default, all async callbacks (queued via call_rcu) are marked
lazy. An alternate API call_rcu_hurry() is provided for the few users,
for example synchronize_rcu(), that need the old behavior.

The batch is flushed whenever a certain amount of time has passed, or
the batch on a particular CPU grows too big. Also memory pressure will
flush it in a future patch.

To handle several corner cases automagically (such as rcu_barrier() and
hotplug), we re-use bypass lists which were originally introduced to
address lock contention, to handle lazy CBs as well. The bypass list
length has the lazy CB length included in it. A separate lazy CB length
counter is also introduced to keep track of the number of lazy CBs.

[ paulmck: Fix formatting of inline call_rcu_lazy() definition. ]
[ paulmck: Apply Zqiang feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Apply s/call_rcu_flush/call_rcu_hurry/ feedback from Tejun Heo. ]

Suggested-by: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Implement timer-based RCU callback batching (also known as lazy
callbacks). With this we save about 5-10% of power consumed due
to RCU requests that happen when system is lightly loaded or idle.

By default, all async callbacks (queued via call_rcu) are marked
lazy. An alternate API call_rcu_hurry() is provided for the few users,
for example synchronize_rcu(), that need the old behavior.

The batch is flushed whenever a certain amount of time has passed, or
the batch on a particular CPU grows too big. Also memory pressure will
flush it in a future patch.

To handle several corner cases automagically (such as rcu_barrier() and
hotplug), we re-use bypass lists which were originally introduced to
address lock contention, to handle lazy CBs as well. The bypass list
length has the lazy CB length included in it. A separate lazy CB length
counter is also introduced to keep track of the number of lazy CBs.

[ paulmck: Fix formatting of inline call_rcu_lazy() definition. ]
[ paulmck: Apply Zqiang feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Apply s/call_rcu_flush/call_rcu_hurry/ feedback from Tejun Heo. ]

Suggested-by: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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