Preempt-RCU: implementation

This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side
critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs
to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them
when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details
of this implementation can be found in this paper -

	http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf

and the article-

	http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/

This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and
meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of
RCU don't disable preemption.  As a consequence of keeping track of RCU
readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper).
This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations
and can be switched to at compiler.

Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs.

[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ]

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 86 insertions, 0 deletions

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+/*
+ * Read-Copy Update mechanism for mutual exclusion (RT implementation)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2006
+ *
+ * Author:  Paul McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
+ *
+ * Based on the original work by Paul McKenney <paul.mckenney@us.ibm.com>
+ * and inputs from Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli and Andi Kleen.
+ * Papers:
+ * http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/paper/rclockpdcsproof.pdf
+ * http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rclock_OLS.2001.05.01c.sc.pdf (OLS2001)
+ *
+ * For detailed explanation of Read-Copy Update mechanism see -
+ * 		Documentation/RCU
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef __LINUX_RCUPREEMPT_H
+#define __LINUX_RCUPREEMPT_H
+
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+#include <linux/cache.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+#include <linux/threads.h>
+#include <linux/percpu.h>
+#include <linux/cpumask.h>
+#include <linux/seqlock.h>
+
+#define rcu_qsctr_inc(cpu)
+#define rcu_bh_qsctr_inc(cpu)
+#define call_rcu_bh(head, rcu) call_rcu(head, rcu)
+
+extern void __rcu_read_lock(void);
+extern void __rcu_read_unlock(void);
+extern int rcu_pending(int cpu);
+extern int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu);
+
+#define __rcu_read_lock_bh()	{ rcu_read_lock(); local_bh_disable(); }
+#define __rcu_read_unlock_bh()	{ local_bh_enable(); rcu_read_unlock(); }
+
+extern void __synchronize_sched(void);
+
+extern void __rcu_init(void);
+extern void rcu_check_callbacks(int cpu, int user);
+extern void rcu_restart_cpu(int cpu);
+extern long rcu_batches_completed(void);
+
+/*
+ * Return the number of RCU batches processed thus far. Useful for debug
+ * and statistic. The _bh variant is identifcal to straight RCU
+ */
+static inline long rcu_batches_completed_bh(void)
+{
+	return rcu_batches_completed();
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TRACE
+struct rcupreempt_trace;
+extern long *rcupreempt_flipctr(int cpu);
+extern long rcupreempt_data_completed(void);
+extern int rcupreempt_flip_flag(int cpu);
+extern int rcupreempt_mb_flag(int cpu);
+extern char *rcupreempt_try_flip_state_name(void);
+extern struct rcupreempt_trace *rcupreempt_trace_cpu(int cpu);
+#endif
+
+struct softirq_action;
+
+#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
+#endif /* __LINUX_RCUPREEMPT_H */