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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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firewire tools/firewire: nosy-dump: increment program version 2010-07-27 11:04:12 +02:00
perf rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread 2011-05-05 23:16:54 -07:00
power/x86 Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
slub slub: move slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.c 2010-11-06 09:04:32 +02:00
testing/ktest Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest 2011-03-21 14:13:48 -07:00
usb USB: ffs-test: fix header path 2011-02-28 19:27:12 -08:00
virtio tools/virtio: virtio_test tool 2010-12-09 16:00:22 +02:00