rcu: Settle config for userspace extended quiescent state

Create a new config option under the RCU menu that put
CPUs under RCU extended quiescent state (as in dynticks
idle mode) when they run in userspace. This require
some contribution from architectures to hook into kernel
and userspace boundaries.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Geoff Levand <[email protected]>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <[email protected]>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <[email protected]>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>

arch/Kconfig

@@ -281,4 +281,14 @@ config SECCOMP_FILTER
 
 	  See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
 
+config HAVE_RCU_USER_QS
+	bool
+	help
+	  Provide kernel entry/exit hooks necessary for userspace
+	  RCU extended quiescent state. Syscalls need to be wrapped inside
+	  rcu_user_exit()-rcu_user_enter() through the slow path using
+	  TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs
+	  are already protected inside rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but
+	  preemption or signal handling on irq exit still need to be protected.
+
 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"

include/linux/rcupdate.h

@@ -191,10 +191,19 @@ extern void rcu_idle_enter(void);
 extern void rcu_idle_exit(void);
 extern void rcu_irq_enter(void);
 extern void rcu_irq_exit(void);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
 extern void rcu_user_enter(void);
 extern void rcu_user_exit(void);
 extern void rcu_user_enter_after_irq(void);
 extern void rcu_user_exit_after_irq(void);
+#else
+static inline void rcu_user_enter(void) { }
+static inline void rcu_user_exit(void) { }
+static inline void rcu_user_enter_after_irq(void) { }
+static inline void rcu_user_exit_after_irq(void) { }
+#endif /* CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS */
+
 extern void exit_rcu(void);
 
 /**

init/Kconfig

@@ -441,6 +441,16 @@ config PREEMPT_RCU
 	  This option enables preemptible-RCU code that is common between
 	  the TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU implementations.
 
+config RCU_USER_QS
+	bool "Consider userspace as in RCU extended quiescent state"
+	depends on HAVE_RCU_USER_QS && SMP
+	help
+	  This option sets hooks on kernel / userspace boundaries and
+	  puts RCU in extended quiescent state when the CPU runs in
+	  userspace. It means that when a CPU runs in userspace, it is
+	  excluded from the global RCU state machine and thus doesn't
+	  to keep the timer tick on for RCU.
+
 config RCU_FANOUT
 	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
 	range 2 64 if 64BIT

kernel/rcutree.c

@@ -400,6 +400,7 @@ void rcu_idle_enter(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_idle_enter);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
 /**
  * rcu_user_enter - inform RCU that we are resuming userspace.
  *
@@ -424,7 +425,6 @@ void rcu_user_enter(void)
 	rcu_eqs_enter(1);
 }
 
-
 /**
  * rcu_user_enter_after_irq - inform RCU that we are going to resume userspace
  * after the current irq returns.
@@ -445,6 +445,7 @@ void rcu_user_enter_after_irq(void)
 	rdtp->dynticks_nesting = 1;
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
+#endif /* CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS */
 
 /**
  * rcu_irq_exit - inform RCU that current CPU is exiting irq towards idle
@@ -548,6 +549,7 @@ void rcu_idle_exit(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_idle_exit);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS
 /**
  * rcu_user_exit - inform RCU that we are exiting userspace.
  *
@@ -591,6 +593,7 @@ void rcu_user_exit_after_irq(void)
 	rdtp->dynticks_nesting += DYNTICK_TASK_EXIT_IDLE;
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
+#endif /* CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS */
 
 /**
  * rcu_irq_enter - inform RCU that current CPU is entering irq away from idle