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authorFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>2021-11-23 03:37:07 +0300
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2021-12-09 22:35:11 +0300
commitd2cf0854d728c42524efc169edb3505de8c1a9dc (patch)
tree5b3b7489bccf6764c9ac1f7f802cc969ed96c259 /kernel/rcu
parent2cf4528d6dd6f5a7f34ae07e26176a7932310eeb (diff)
downloadlinux-d2cf0854d728c42524efc169edb3505de8c1a9dc.tar.xz
rcu/nocb: Allow empty "rcu_nocbs" kernel parameter
Allow the rcu_nocbs kernel parameter to be specified just by itself, without specifying any CPUs. This allows systems administrators to use "rcu_nocbs" to specify that none of the CPUs are to be offloaded at boot time, but than any of them may be offloaded at runtime via cpusets. In contrast, if the "rcu_nocbs" or "nohz_full" kernel parameters are not specified at all, then not only are none of the CPUs offloaded at boot, none of them can be offloaded at runtime, either. While in the area, modernize the description of the "rcuo" kthreads' naming scheme. Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
index f580a6b2e74e..0c1802ce4764 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
@@ -66,14 +66,16 @@ static bool rcu_nocb_is_setup;
static int __init rcu_nocb_setup(char *str)
{
alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&rcu_nocb_mask);
- if (cpulist_parse(str, rcu_nocb_mask)) {
- pr_warn("rcu_nocbs= bad CPU range, all CPUs set\n");
- cpumask_setall(rcu_nocb_mask);
+ if (*str == '=') {
+ if (cpulist_parse(++str, rcu_nocb_mask)) {
+ pr_warn("rcu_nocbs= bad CPU range, all CPUs set\n");
+ cpumask_setall(rcu_nocb_mask);
+ }
}
rcu_nocb_is_setup = true;
return 1;
}
-__setup("rcu_nocbs=", rcu_nocb_setup);
+__setup("rcu_nocbs", rcu_nocb_setup);
static int __init parse_rcu_nocb_poll(char *arg)
{