linux/Documentation/filesystems
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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caching Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
configfs Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
nfs NFSv4.1: lseg documentation 2011-03-11 15:38:43 -05:00
pohmelfs Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
9p.txt fs/9p: Add access = client option to opt in acl evaluation. 2010-10-28 09:08:46 -05:00
00-INDEX
adfs.txt adfs: add hexadecimal filetype suffix option 2011-03-22 17:44:17 -07:00
affs.txt
afs.txt
autofs4-mount-control.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
automount-support.txt
befs.txt
bfs.txt
btrfs.txt
ceph.txt
cifs.txt
coda.txt
cramfs.txt
debugfs.txt
devpts.txt
directory-locking
dlmfs.txt
dnotify_test.c
dnotify.txt
ecryptfs.txt
exofs.txt exofs: Add option to mount by osdname 2011-03-15 15:02:51 +02:00
ext2.txt
ext3.txt
ext4.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
fiemap.txt
files.txt
fuse.txt
gfs2-glocks.txt
gfs2-uevents.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
gfs2.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
hfs.txt
hfsplus.txt
hpfs.txt
inotify.txt
isofs.txt
jfs.txt
Locking fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache 2011-03-24 21:16:32 -04:00
locks.txt
logfs.txt
Makefile
mandatory-locking.txt
ncpfs.txt
nilfs2.txt
ntfs.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
ocfs2.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
omfs.txt
path-lookup.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
porting fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache 2011-03-24 21:16:32 -04:00
proc.txt rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread 2011-05-05 23:16:54 -07:00
quota.txt
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
relay.txt
romfs.txt Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt: fixing link to genromfs 2011-02-17 22:04:46 +01:00
seq_file.txt
sharedsubtree.txt
spufs.txt
squashfs.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
sysfs-pci.txt
sysfs-tagging.txt
sysfs.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
sysv-fs.txt
tmpfs.txt
ubifs.txt UBIFS: do not check data crc by default 2011-03-11 10:52:07 +02:00
udf.txt
ufs.txt
vfat.txt
vfs.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
xfs.txt
xip.txt