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linux/Documentation/filesystems
Paul E. McKenney a26ac2455f rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread
If RCU priority boosting is to be meaningful, callback invocation must
be boosted in addition to preempted RCU readers.  Otherwise, in presence
of CPU real-time threads, the grace period ends, but the callbacks don't
get invoked.  If the callbacks don't get invoked, the associated memory
doesn't get freed, so the system is still subject to OOM.

But it is not reasonable to priority-boost RCU_SOFTIRQ, so this commit
moves the callback invocations to a kthread, which can be boosted easily.

Also add comments and properly synchronized all accesses to
rcu_cpu_kthread_task, as suggested by Lai Jiangshan.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-05-05 23:16:54 -07:00
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caching Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
configfs Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
nfs NFSv4.1: lseg documentation 2011-03-11 15:38:43 -05:00
pohmelfs Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
9p.txt fs/9p: Add access = client option to opt in acl evaluation. 2010-10-28 09:08:46 -05:00
00-INDEX smbfs: move to drivers/staging 2010-10-05 09:08:21 -07:00
adfs.txt adfs: add hexadecimal filetype suffix option 2011-03-22 17:44:17 -07:00
affs.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
afs.txt
autofs4-mount-control.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
automount-support.txt
befs.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
bfs.txt
btrfs.txt
ceph.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
cifs.txt
coda.txt
cramfs.txt
debugfs.txt
devpts.txt
directory-locking
dlmfs.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
dnotify_test.c Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files 2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
dnotify.txt Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files 2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
ecryptfs.txt
exofs.txt exofs: Add option to mount by osdname 2011-03-15 15:02:51 +02:00
ext2.txt
ext3.txt ext3: make barrier options consistent with ext4 2010-05-21 19:30:41 +02:00
ext4.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
fiemap.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
files.txt
fuse.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
gfs2-glocks.txt
gfs2-uevents.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
gfs2.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
hfs.txt
hfsplus.txt
hpfs.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
inotify.txt
isofs.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
jfs.txt
Locking fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache 2011-03-24 21:16:32 -04:00
locks.txt
logfs.txt fix "seperate" typos in comments 2010-05-10 11:56:30 +02:00
Makefile Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files 2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
mandatory-locking.txt
ncpfs.txt
nilfs2.txt nilfs2: add nodiscard mount option 2010-07-23 10:02:12 +09:00
ntfs.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
ocfs2.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
omfs.txt
path-lookup.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
porting fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache 2011-03-24 21:16:32 -04:00
proc.txt rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread 2011-05-05 23:16:54 -07:00
quota.txt
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
relay.txt
romfs.txt Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt: fixing link to genromfs 2011-02-17 22:04:46 +01:00
seq_file.txt
sharedsubtree.txt Documentation: Fix trivial typo in filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt 2010-10-25 21:18:21 -04:00
spufs.txt
squashfs.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
sysfs-pci.txt PCI: Allow read/write access to sysfs I/O port resources 2010-07-30 09:32:08 -07:00
sysfs-tagging.txt sysfs-namespaces: add a high-level Documentation file 2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
sysfs.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
sysv-fs.txt
tmpfs.txt mempolicy: document cpuset interaction with tmpfs mpol mount option 2010-05-25 08:06:57 -07:00
ubifs.txt UBIFS: do not check data crc by default 2011-03-11 10:52:07 +02:00
udf.txt
ufs.txt
vfat.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
vfs.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
xfs.txt xfs: remove obsolete osyncisosync mount option 2010-07-26 13:16:51 -05:00
xip.txt