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
00-INDEX smbfs: move to drivers/staging 2010-10-05 09:08:21 -07:00
9p.txt fs/9p: Add access = client option to opt in acl evaluation. 2010-10-28 09:08:46 -05:00
Locking fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache 2011-03-24 21:16:32 -04:00
Makefile Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files 2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
adfs.txt adfs: add hexadecimal filetype suffix option 2011-03-22 17:44:17 -07:00
affs.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
afs.txt AFS: Documentation updates 2009-08-19 10:40:13 -07:00
autofs4-mount-control.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
automount-support.txt
befs.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
bfs.txt remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation 2008-07-22 19:24:29 +10:00
btrfs.txt Btrfs: Add Documentation/filesystem/btrfs.txt, remove old COPYING 2009-01-07 09:54:24 -05:00
ceph.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
cifs.txt
coda.txt
cramfs.txt
debugfs.txt Document the debugfs API 2009-06-06 10:28:14 -06:00
devpts.txt Document usage of multiple-instances of devpts 2009-01-02 10:19:36 -08:00
directory-locking Documentation: Fix up docs still talking about i_sem 2007-05-24 10:16:17 -07:00
dlmfs.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
dnotify.txt Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files 2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
dnotify_test.c Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files 2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
ecryptfs.txt eCryptfs: Move ecryptfs docs into Documentation/filesystems/ 2007-07-17 10:23:08 -07:00
exofs.txt exofs: Add option to mount by osdname 2011-03-15 15:02:51 +02:00
ext2.txt Doc fix: ext2 can only have 32,000 subdirs, not 32,768 2009-06-18 13:03:44 -07:00
ext3.txt ext3: make barrier options consistent with ext4 2010-05-21 19:30:41 +02:00
ext4.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
fiemap.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
files.txt fix f_count description in Documentation/filesystems/files.txt 2008-12-31 18:07:42 -05:00
fuse.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
gfs2-glocks.txt GFS2: Update docs 2009-05-19 10:23:23 +01:00
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 Documentation: document HFSPlus 2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
hpfs.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
inotify.txt
isofs.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
jfs.txt JFS: document uid, gid, and umask mount options in jfs.txt 2007-03-09 10:27:31 -06:00
locks.txt Documentation: move locks.txt in filesystems/ 2007-10-09 18:32:45 -04:00
logfs.txt fix "seperate" typos in comments 2010-05-10 11:56:30 +02:00
mandatory-locking.txt locks: add warning about mandatory locking races 2007-10-09 18:32:45 -04:00
ncpfs.txt ncpfs: remove dead URL from documentation 2009-09-23 07:39:42 -07:00
nilfs2.txt nilfs2: add nodiscard mount option 2010-07-23 10:02:12 +09:00
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 omfs: add filesystem documentation 2008-07-26 12:00:05 -07:00
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 quota: documentation for sending "below quota" messages via netlink and tiny doc update 2008-08-12 16:07:27 -07:00
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt Trivial Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt fix 2008-11-30 11:40:56 -08:00
relay.txt relay: add buffer-only channels; useful for early logging 2008-07-26 12:00:04 -07:00
romfs.txt Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt: fixing link to genromfs 2011-02-17 22:04:46 +01:00
seq_file.txt seq_file: use proc_create() in documentation 2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
sharedsubtree.txt Documentation: Fix trivial typo in filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt 2010-10-25 21:18:21 -04:00
spufs.txt
squashfs.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
sysfs-pci.txt PCI: Allow read/write access to sysfs I/O port resources 2010-07-30 09:32:08 -07:00
sysfs-tagging.txt sysfs-namespaces: add a high-level Documentation file 2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
sysfs.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
sysv-fs.txt
tmpfs.txt mempolicy: document cpuset interaction with tmpfs mpol mount option 2010-05-25 08:06:57 -07:00
ubifs.txt UBIFS: do not check data crc by default 2011-03-11 10:52:07 +02:00
udf.txt udf: implement mode and dmode mounting options 2009-04-02 12:29:50 +02:00
ufs.txt
vfat.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
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 xfs: remove obsolete osyncisosync mount option 2010-07-26 13:16:51 -05:00
xip.txt DOC: update xip method info 2008-11-12 17:17:17 -08:00