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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-06-13 08:40:03 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-06-13 08:40:03 +0200
commit567b64aaefc4ef9ae3af124ae0b13dc13a6804a8 (patch)
tree0b2edea83c359a19e00d529a41c3ced5396933df /Documentation/admin-guide
parentLinux 4.12-rc5 (diff)
parentrcu: Remove RCU CPU stall warnings from Tiny RCU (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney: "The largest feature of this series is shrinking and simplification, with the following diffstat summary: 79 files changed, 1496 insertions(+), 4211 deletions(-) In other words, this series represents a net reduction of more than 2700 lines of code." Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt41
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 0f5c3b4347c6..05f26c8df89e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3238,21 +3238,17 @@
rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
- RCU grace-period cleanup. This only has effect
- when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is set.
+ RCU grace-period cleanup.
rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
- RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
- effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT
- is set.
+ RCU grace-period initialization.
rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
- the rcu_node combining tree. This only has effect
- when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is set.
+ the rcu_node combining tree.
rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
@@ -3328,6 +3324,17 @@
This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
+ rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
+ Measure performance of asynchronous
+ grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
+
+ rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
+ Specify the maximum number of outstanding
+ callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
+ thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
+ corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
+ previously posted callbacks to drain.
+
rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
Measure performance of expedited synchronous
grace-period primitives.
@@ -3355,17 +3362,22 @@
rcuperf.perf_runnable= [BOOT]
Start rcuperf running at boot time.
+ rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
+ Specify the RCU implementation to test.
+
rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
Shut the system down after performance tests
complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
testing.
- rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
- Specify the RCU implementation to test.
-
rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
Enable additional printk() statements.
+ rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
+ Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
+ in microseconds. The default of zero says
+ no holdoff.
+
rcutorture.cbflood_inter_holdoff= [KNL]
Set holdoff time (jiffies) between successive
callback-flood tests.
@@ -3803,6 +3815,15 @@
spia_pedr=
spia_peddr=
+ srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
+ Specifies how frequently to check for
+ grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
+ srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
+ The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
+ parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
+ be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
+ are ignored.
+
srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
since the end of the last SRCU grace period for