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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-11-30 17:24:30 +0300
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-10-10 00:25:17 +0300
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sched,rcu: Make cond_resched() provide RCU quiescent state
There is some confusion as to which of cond_resched() or cond_resched_rcu_qs() should be added to long in-kernel loops. This commit therefore eliminates the decision by adding RCU quiescent states to cond_resched(). This commit also simplifies the code that used to interact with cond_resched_rcu_qs(), and that now interacts with cond_resched(), to reduce its overhead. This reduction is necessary to allow the heavier-weight cond_resched_rcu_qs() mechanism to be invoked everywhere that cond_resched() is invoked. Part of that reduction in overhead converts the jiffies_till_sched_qs kernel parameter to read-only at runtime, thus eliminating the need for bounds checking. Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> [ paulmck: Keep PREEMPT=n cond_resched a no-op, per Peter Zijlstra. ]
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