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| author | Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com> | 2020-12-15 15:16:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2021-01-04 13:43:51 -0800 |
| commit | 36221e109eb20ac111bc3bf3e8d5639aa457c7e0 (patch) | |
| tree | b636272ab3062d4f1db2e2ab8b11d4ddcef7a8b2 /Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | 8b9a0ecc7ef5e1ed3afbc926de17399a37128c82 (diff) | |
rcu: Enable rcu_normal_after_boot unconditionally for RT
Expedited RCU grace periods send IPIs to all non-idle CPUs, and thus can
disrupt time-critical code in real-time applications. However, there
is a portion of boot-time processing (presumably before any real-time
applications have started) where expedited RCU grace periods are the only
option. And so it is that experience with the -rt patchset indicates that
PREEMPT_RT systems should always set the rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot
kernel boot parameter.
This commit therefore makes the post-boot application environment safe
for real-time applications by making PREEMPT_RT systems disable the
rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot kernel boot parameter and acting as
if this parameter had been set. This means that post-boot calls to
synchronize_rcu_expedited() will be treated as if they were instead
calls to synchronize_rcu(), thus preventing the IPIs, and thus avoiding
disrupting real-time applications.
Suggested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ paulmck: Update kernel-parameters.txt accordingly. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 521255f4ef13..e0008d9caccb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4474,6 +4474,13 @@ only normal grace-period primitives. No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. + But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables + this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting + it to the value one, that is, converting any + post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace + period to instead use normal non-expedited + grace-period processing. + rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning |