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authorPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2021-02-21 03:08:27 -0500
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2021-03-08 14:16:58 -0800
commit3e70df91f961b9df7ab3c0ae1934bdf15454c536 (patch)
tree1a6379c4210ece30796e372df35e857b71cfa9ac
parent99c58d1adbca25fb3ee2469bf0904e1e3e021f7e (diff)
rcu: deprecate "all" option to rcu_nocbs=
With the core bitmap support now accepting "N" as a placeholder for the end of the bitmap, "all" can be represented as "0-N" and has the advantage of not being specific to RCU (or any other subsystem). So deprecate the use of "all" by removing documentation references to it. The support itself needs to remain for now, since we don't know how many people out there are using it currently, but since it is in an __init area anyway, it isn't worth losing sleep over. Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt4
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h6
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 04545725f187..83e2ef192de9 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4068,9 +4068,7 @@
see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
- The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
- except that the string "all" can be used to
- specify every CPU on the system.
+ The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 2d603771c7dc..0b955627d609 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -1464,14 +1464,12 @@ static void rcu_cleanup_after_idle(void)
/*
* Parse the boot-time rcu_nocb_mask CPU list from the kernel parameters.
- * The string after the "rcu_nocbs=" is either "all" for all CPUs, or a
- * comma-separated list of CPUs and/or CPU ranges. If an invalid list is
- * given, a warning is emitted and all CPUs are offloaded.
+ * If the list is invalid, a warning is emitted and all CPUs are offloaded.
*/
static int __init rcu_nocb_setup(char *str)
{
alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&rcu_nocb_mask);
- if (!strcasecmp(str, "all"))
+ if (!strcasecmp(str, "all")) /* legacy: use "0-N" instead */
cpumask_setall(rcu_nocb_mask);
else
if (cpulist_parse(str, rcu_nocb_mask)) {