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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-05 14:49:11 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-05 14:49:11 -0800
commit3717f613f48df0222311f974cf8a06c8a6c97bae (patch)
tree454a8b48db876805e27038486af71d16d2be98de /Documentation/admin-guide
parentb1b988a6a035212f5ea205155c49ce449beedee8 (diff)
parentcae45e1c6c541283a1bd155aa7b0a57e353b4df4 (diff)
Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main RCU related changes in this cycle were: - Additional cleanups after RCU flavor consolidation - Grace-period forward-progress cleanups and improvements - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes - spin_is_locked() conversions to lockdep - SPDX changes to RCU source and header files - SRCU updates - Torture-test updates, including nolibc updates and moving nolibc to tools/include" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits) locking/locktorture: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/torture: Convert to SPDX license identifier torture: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/srcu: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/rcutree: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/rcutiny: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/rcu_sync: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/rcu_segcblist: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/rcupdate: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/rcu_node_tree: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/update: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/tree: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/tiny: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/sync: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/srcu: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/rcutorture: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/rcu_segcblist: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/rcuperf: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/rcu.h: Convert to SPDX license identifier RCU/torture.txt: Remove section MODULE PARAMETERS ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index bcf2cd519d1e..74dddbf54cd1 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3658,19 +3658,6 @@
latencies, which will choose a value aligned
with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
- rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
- Set required age in jiffies for a
- given grace period before RCU starts
- soliciting quiescent-state help from
- rcu_note_context_switch(). If not specified, the
- kernel will calculate a value based on the most
- recent settings of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
- and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
- This calculated value may be viewed in
- rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to
- set rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be
- cheerfully overwritten.
-
rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
Set delay from grace-period initialization to
first attempt to force quiescent states.
@@ -3682,6 +3669,20 @@
quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
+ rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
+ Set required age in jiffies for a
+ given grace period before RCU starts
+ soliciting quiescent-state help from
+ rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
+ If not specified, the kernel will calculate
+ a value based on the most recent settings
+ of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
+ and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
+ This calculated value may be viewed in
+ rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
+ rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
+ overwritten.
+
rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
@@ -3725,6 +3726,11 @@
This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
+ rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
+ Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
+ rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
+ why a new grace period has not yet started.
+
rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
Measure performance of asynchronous
grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().