RCU pull request for v6.2
This pull request contains the following branches:
doc.2022.10.20a: Documentation updates. This is the second
in a series from an ongoing review of the RCU documentation.
fixes.2022.10.21a: Miscellaneous fixes.
lazy.2022.11.30a: Introduces a default-off Kconfig option that depends
on RCU_NOCB_CPU that, on CPUs mentioned in the nohz_full or
rcu_nocbs boot-argument CPU lists, causes call_rcu() to introduce
delays. These delays result in significant power savings on
nearly idle Android and ChromeOS systems. These savings range
from a few percent to more than ten percent.
This series also includes several commits that change call_rcu()
to a new call_rcu_hurry() function that avoids these delays in
a few cases, for example, where timely wakeups are required.
Several of these are outside of RCU and thus have acks and
reviews from the relevant maintainers.
srcunmisafe.2022.11.09a: Creates an srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() and an
srcu_read_unlock_nmisafe() for architectures that support NMIs,
but which do not provide NMI-safe this_cpu_inc(). These NMI-safe
SRCU functions are required by the upcoming lockless printk()
work by John Ogness et al.
That printk() series depends on these commits, so if you pull
the printk() series before this one, you will have already
pulled in this branch, plus two more SRCU commits:
0cd7e350abc4 ("rcu: Make SRCU mandatory")
51f5f78a4f80 ("srcu: Make Tiny synchronize_srcu() check for readers")
These two commits appear to work well, but do not have
sufficient testing exposure over a long enough time for me to
feel comfortable pushing them unless something in mainline is
definitely going to use them immediately, and currently only
the new printk() work uses them.
torture.2022.10.18c: Changes providing minor but important increases
in test coverage for the new RCU polled-grace-period APIs.
torturescript.2022.10.20a: Changes that avoid redundant kernel builds,
thus providing about a 30% speedup for the torture.sh acceptance
test.
Merge branches 'doc.2022.10.20a', 'fixes.2022.10.21a', 'lazy.2022.11.30a', 'srcunmisafe.2022.11.09a', 'torture.2022.10.18c' and 'torturescript.2022.10.20a' into HEAD
doc.2022.10.20a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2022.10.21a: Miscellaneous fixes.
lazy.2022.11.30a: Lazy call_rcu() and NOCB updates.
srcunmisafe.2022.11.09a: NMI-safe SRCU readers.
torture.2022.10.18c: Torture-test updates.
torturescript.2022.10.20a: Torture-test scripting updates.
