From 36221e109eb20ac111bc3bf3e8d5639aa457c7e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julia Cartwright Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:16:47 +0100 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Julia Cartwright Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [ paulmck: Update kernel-parameters.txt accordingly. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcu/update.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/rcu/update.c') diff --git a/kernel/rcu/update.c b/kernel/rcu/update.c index 39334d2d2b37..b95ae86c40a7 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/update.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/update.c @@ -56,8 +56,10 @@ #ifndef CONFIG_TINY_RCU module_param(rcu_expedited, int, 0); module_param(rcu_normal, int, 0); -static int rcu_normal_after_boot; +static int rcu_normal_after_boot = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT); +#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT module_param(rcu_normal_after_boot, int, 0); +#endif #endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */ #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC -- cgit v1.2.3