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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-07-04 12:58:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-07-04 12:58:33 -0700
commit28e92f990337b8b4c5fdec47667f8b96089c503e (patch)
tree0dc55280883e7262d831ad24deb3a4fd2a56031a /Documentation
parentda803f82faa5ceeff34aa56c08ceba5384e44e47 (diff)
parent641faf1b9064c270a476a424e60063bb05df3ee9 (diff)
Merge branch 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney: - Bitmap parsing support for "all" as an alias for all bits - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes, including some that overlap into mm and lockdep - kvfree_rcu() updates - mem_dump_obj() updates, with acks from one of the slab-allocator maintainers - RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading - SRCU updates - Tasks-RCU updates - Torture-test updates * 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (78 commits) tasks-rcu: Make show_rcu_tasks_gp_kthreads() be static inline rcu-tasks: Make ksoftirqd provide RCU Tasks quiescent states rcu: Add missing __releases() annotation rcu: Remove obsolete rcu_read_unlock() deadlock commentary rcu: Improve comments describing RCU read-side critical sections rcu: Create an unrcu_pointer() to remove __rcu from a pointer srcu: Early test SRCU polling start rcu: Fix various typos in comments rcu/nocb: Unify timers rcu/nocb: Prepare for fine-grained deferred wakeup rcu/nocb: Only cancel nocb timer if not polling rcu/nocb: Delete bypass_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup rcu/nocb: Cancel nocb_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup rcu/nocb: Allow de-offloading rdp leader rcu/nocb: Directly call __wake_nocb_gp() from bypass timer rcu: Don't penalize priority boosting when there is nothing to boost rcu: Point to documentation of ordering guarantees rcu: Make rcu_gp_cleanup() be noinline for tracing rcu: Restrict RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to at most four CPUs rcu: Make show_rcu_gp_kthreads() dump rcu_node structures blocking GP ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt5
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst
index a648b423ba0e..11cdab037bff 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Any code that happens after the end of a given RCU grace period is guaranteed
to see the effects of all accesses prior to the beginning of that grace
period that are within RCU read-side critical sections.
Similarly, any code that happens before the beginning of a given RCU grace
-period is guaranteed to see the effects of all accesses following the end
+period is guaranteed to not see the effects of all accesses following the end
of that grace period that are within RCU read-side critical sections.
Note well that RCU-sched read-side critical sections include any region
@@ -339,14 +339,14 @@ The diagram below shows the path of ordering if the leftmost
leftmost ``rcu_node`` structure offlines its last CPU and if the next
``rcu_node`` structure has no online CPUs).
-.. kernel-figure:: TreeRCU-gp-init-1.svg
+.. kernel-figure:: TreeRCU-gp-init-2.svg
The final ``rcu_gp_init()`` pass through the ``rcu_node`` tree traverses
breadth-first, setting each ``rcu_node`` structure's ``->gp_seq`` field
to the newly advanced value from the ``rcu_state`` structure, as shown
in the following diagram.
-.. kernel-figure:: TreeRCU-gp-init-1.svg
+.. kernel-figure:: TreeRCU-gp-init-3.svg
This change will also cause each CPU's next call to
``__note_gp_changes()`` to notice that a new grace period has started,
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
index 3996b54158bf..01ba293a2d70 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ to change, such as less cores in the CPU list, then N and any ranges using N
will also change. Use the same on a small 4 core system, and "16-N" becomes
"16-3" and now the same boot input will be flagged as invalid (start > end).
+The special case-tolerant group name "all" has a meaning of selecting all CPUs,
+so that "nohz_full=all" is the equivalent of "nohz_full=0-N".
+
+The semantics of "N" and "all" is supported on a level of bitmaps and holds for
+all users of bitmap_parse().
This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index d6717b747694..b4ee11198762 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4354,6 +4354,11 @@
whole algorithm to behave better in low memory
condition.
+ rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL]
+ Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds)
+ in response to low-memory conditions. The range
+ of permitted values is in the range 0:100000.
+
rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Set delay from grace-period initialization to
first attempt to force quiescent states.