• Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
    nohz: Add TICK_DEP_BIT_RCU · 01b4c399
    Frederic Weisbecker authored
    If a nohz_full CPU is looping in the kernel, the scheduling-clock tick
    might nevertheless remain disabled.  In !PREEMPT kernels, this can
    prevent RCU's attempts to enlist the aid of that CPU's executions of
    cond_resched(), which can in turn result in an arbitrarily delayed grace
    period and thus an OOM.  RCU therefore needs a way to enable a holdout
    nohz_full CPU's scheduler-clock interrupt.
    
    This commit therefore provides a new TICK_DEP_BIT_RCU value which RCU can
    pass to tick_dep_set_cpu() and friends to force on the scheduler-clock
    interrupt for a specified CPU or task.  In some cases, rcutorture needs
    to turn on the scheduler-clock tick, so this commit also exports the
    relevant symbols to GPL-licensed modules.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
    01b4c399
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