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, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 930c51865ab4..9f8ef32cbc7a 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1045,6 +1045,10 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 	copy_flags(clone_flags, p);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->children);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->sibling);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
+	p->rcu_read_lock_nesting = 0;
+	p->rcu_flipctr_idx = 0;
+#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU */
 	p->vfork_done = NULL;
 	spin_lock_init(&p->alloc_lock);