On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:05:23PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
> 
> By default we don't want to enter into RCU extended quiescent
> state while in userspace because doing this produces some overhead
> (eg: use of syscall slowpath). Set it off by default and ready to
> run when some feature like adaptive tickless need it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
> Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
> Cc: Geoff Levand <[email protected]>
> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hakan Akkan <[email protected]>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kevin Hilman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>

>  kernel/rcutree.c |    5 ++++-
>  kernel/rcutree.h |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
> index 8bbc7fb..e2fd370 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcutree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
> @@ -210,6 +210,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_note_context_switch);
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_dynticks, rcu_dynticks) = {
>       .dynticks_nesting = DYNTICK_TASK_EXIT_IDLE,
>       .dynticks = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
> +#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
> +     .ignore_user_qs = true,
> +#endif
>  };
>  
>  static int blimit = 10;              /* Maximum callbacks per rcu_do_batch. 
> */
> @@ -443,7 +446,7 @@ void rcu_user_enter(void)
>  
>       local_irq_save(flags);
>       rdtp = &__get_cpu_var(rcu_dynticks);
> -     if (!rdtp->in_user) {
> +     if (!rdtp->ignore_user_qs && !rdtp->in_user) {
>               rdtp->in_user = true;
>               rcu_eqs_enter(1);
>       }
> diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h
> index 0dd5fd6..c190582 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcutree.h
> +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h
> @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ struct rcu_dynticks {
>       int tick_nohz_enabled_snap; /* Previously seen value from sysfs. */
>  #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ */
>  #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
> +     bool ignore_user_qs;        /* Treat userspace as extended QS or not */
>       bool in_user;               /* Is the CPU in userland from RCU POV? */
>  #endif
>  };
> -- 
> 1.7.8
> 
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