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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Introduce CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT</title>
<updated>2022-05-11T18:38:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uladzislau Rezki</name>
<email>uladzislau.rezki@sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-16T13:52:09+00:00</published>
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Currently both expedited and regular grace period stall warnings use
a single timeout value that with units of seconds.  However, recent
Android use cases problem require a sub-100-millisecond expedited RCU CPU
stall warning.  Given that expedited RCU grace periods normally complete
in far less than a single millisecond, especially for small systems,
this is not unreasonable.

Therefore introduce the CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT kernel
configuration that defaults to 20 msec on Android and remains the same
as that of the non-expedited stall warnings otherwise.  It also can be
changed in run-time via: /sys/.../parameters/rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout.

[ paulmck: Default of zero to use CONFIG_RCU_STALL_TIMEOUT. ]

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki &lt;uladzislau.rezki@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently both expedited and regular grace period stall warnings use
a single timeout value that with units of seconds.  However, recent
Android use cases problem require a sub-100-millisecond expedited RCU CPU
stall warning.  Given that expedited RCU grace periods normally complete
in far less than a single millisecond, especially for small systems,
this is not unreasonable.

Therefore introduce the CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT kernel
configuration that defaults to 20 msec on Android and remains the same
as that of the non-expedited stall warnings otherwise.  It also can be
changed in run-time via: /sys/.../parameters/rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout.

[ paulmck: Default of zero to use CONFIG_RCU_STALL_TIMEOUT. ]

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki &lt;uladzislau.rezki@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Uninline multi-use function: finish_rcuwait()</title>
<updated>2022-02-14T18:36:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-15T00:07:28+00:00</published>
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This is a rarely used function, so uninlining its 3 instructions
is probably a win or a wash - but the main motivation is to
make &lt;linux/rcuwait.h&gt; independent of task_struct details.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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This is a rarely used function, so uninlining its 3 instructions
is probably a win or a wash - but the main motivation is to
make &lt;linux/rcuwait.h&gt; independent of task_struct details.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'rcu.2021.11.01a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T03:25:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-02T03:25:38+00:00</published>
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Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:

 - Miscellaneous fixes

 - Torture-test updates for smp_call_function(), most notably improved
   checking of module parameters.

 - Tasks-trace RCU updates that fix a number of rare but important
   race-condition bugs.

 - Other torture-test updates, most notably better checking of module
   parameters. In addition, rcutorture may once again be run on
   CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernels.

 - Torture-test scripting updates, most notably specifying the new
   CONFIG_KCSAN_STRICT kconfig option rather than maintaining an
   ever-changing list of individual KCSAN kconfig options.

* tag 'rcu.2021.11.01a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (46 commits)
  rcu: Fix rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs() vs noinstr
  rcu: Always inline rcu_dynticks_task*_{enter,exit}()
  torture: Make kvm-remote.sh print size of downloaded tarball
  torture: Allot 1G of memory for scftorture runs
  tools/rcu: Add an extract-stall script
  scftorture: Warn on individual scf_torture_init() error conditions
  scftorture: Count reschedule IPIs
  scftorture: Account for weight_resched when checking for all zeroes
  scftorture: Shut down if nonsensical arguments given
  scftorture: Allow zero weight to exclude an smp_call_function*() category
  rcu: Avoid unneeded function call in rcu_read_unlock()
  rcu-tasks: Update comments to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs()
  rcu-tasks: Fix IPI failure handling in trc_wait_for_one_reader
  rcu-tasks: Fix read-side primitives comment for call_rcu_tasks_trace
  rcu-tasks: Clarify read side section info for rcu_tasks_rude GP primitives
  rcu-tasks: Correct comparisons for CPU numbers in show_stalled_task_trace
  rcu-tasks: Correct firstreport usage in check_all_holdout_tasks_trace
  rcu-tasks: Fix s/rcu_add_holdout/trc_add_holdout/ typo in comment
  rcu-tasks: Move RTGS_WAIT_CBS to beginning of rcu_tasks_kthread() loop
  rcu-tasks: Fix s/instruction/instructions/ typo in comment
  ...
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<pre>
Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:

 - Miscellaneous fixes

 - Torture-test updates for smp_call_function(), most notably improved
   checking of module parameters.

 - Tasks-trace RCU updates that fix a number of rare but important
   race-condition bugs.

 - Other torture-test updates, most notably better checking of module
   parameters. In addition, rcutorture may once again be run on
   CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernels.

 - Torture-test scripting updates, most notably specifying the new
   CONFIG_KCSAN_STRICT kconfig option rather than maintaining an
   ever-changing list of individual KCSAN kconfig options.

* tag 'rcu.2021.11.01a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (46 commits)
  rcu: Fix rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs() vs noinstr
  rcu: Always inline rcu_dynticks_task*_{enter,exit}()
  torture: Make kvm-remote.sh print size of downloaded tarball
  torture: Allot 1G of memory for scftorture runs
  tools/rcu: Add an extract-stall script
  scftorture: Warn on individual scf_torture_init() error conditions
  scftorture: Count reschedule IPIs
  scftorture: Account for weight_resched when checking for all zeroes
  scftorture: Shut down if nonsensical arguments given
  scftorture: Allow zero weight to exclude an smp_call_function*() category
  rcu: Avoid unneeded function call in rcu_read_unlock()
  rcu-tasks: Update comments to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs()
  rcu-tasks: Fix IPI failure handling in trc_wait_for_one_reader
  rcu-tasks: Fix read-side primitives comment for call_rcu_tasks_trace
  rcu-tasks: Clarify read side section info for rcu_tasks_rude GP primitives
  rcu-tasks: Correct comparisons for CPU numbers in show_stalled_task_trace
  rcu-tasks: Correct firstreport usage in check_all_holdout_tasks_trace
  rcu-tasks: Fix s/rcu_add_holdout/trc_add_holdout/ typo in comment
  rcu-tasks: Move RTGS_WAIT_CBS to beginning of rcu_tasks_kthread() loop
  rcu-tasks: Fix s/instruction/instructions/ typo in comment
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lockdep: Improve comments in wait-type checks</title>
<updated>2021-09-17T13:08:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhouyi Zhou</name>
<email>zhouzhouyi@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-11T02:59:20+00:00</published>
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Comments in wait-type checks be improved by mentioning the
PREEPT_RT kernel configure option.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou &lt;zhouzhouyi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210811025920.20751-1-zhouzhouyi@gmail.com
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Comments in wait-type checks be improved by mentioning the
PREEPT_RT kernel configure option.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou &lt;zhouzhouyi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210811025920.20751-1-zhouzhouyi@gmail.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Make rcu update module parameters world-readable</title>
<updated>2021-09-13T23:32:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juri Lelli</name>
<email>juri.lelli@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-10T08:48:16+00:00</published>
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rcu update module parameters currently don't appear in sysfs and this is
a serviceability issue as it might be needed to access their default
values at runtime.

Fix this issue by changing rcu update module parameters permissions to
world-readable.

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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rcu update module parameters currently don't appear in sysfs and this is
a serviceability issue as it might be needed to access their default
values at runtime.

Fix this issue by changing rcu update module parameters permissions to
world-readable.

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Make rcu_normal_after_boot writable again</title>
<updated>2021-09-13T23:32:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juri Lelli</name>
<email>juri.lelli@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-10T08:48:15+00:00</published>
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Certain configurations (e.g., systems that make heavy use of netns)
need to use synchronize_rcu_expedited() to service RCU grace periods
even after boot.

Even though synchronize_rcu_expedited() has been traditionally
considered harmful for RT for the heavy use of IPIs, it is perfectly
usable under certain conditions (e.g. nohz_full).

Make rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= again writeable on RT (if NO_HZ_
FULL is defined), but keep its default value to 1 (enabled) to avoid
regressions. Users who need synchronize_rcu_expedited() will boot with
rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_ boot=0 in the kernel cmdline.

Reflect the change in synchronize_rcu_expedited_wait() by removing the
WARN related to CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Certain configurations (e.g., systems that make heavy use of netns)
need to use synchronize_rcu_expedited() to service RCU grace periods
even after boot.

Even though synchronize_rcu_expedited() has been traditionally
considered harmful for RT for the heavy use of IPIs, it is perfectly
usable under certain conditions (e.g. nohz_full).

Make rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= again writeable on RT (if NO_HZ_
FULL is defined), but keep its default value to 1 (enabled) to avoid
regressions. Users who need synchronize_rcu_expedited() will boot with
rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_ boot=0 in the kernel cmdline.

Reflect the change in synchronize_rcu_expedited_wait() by removing the
WARN related to CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'bitmaprange.2021.05.10c', 'doc.2021.05.10c', 'fixes.2021.05.13a', 'kvfree_rcu.2021.05.10c', 'mmdumpobj.2021.05.10c', 'nocb.2021.05.12a', 'srcu.2021.05.12a', 'tasks.2021.05.18a' and 'torture.2021.05.10c' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2021-05-18T17:56:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-18T17:56:19+00:00</published>
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bitmaprange.2021.05.10c: Allow "all" for bitmap ranges.
doc.2021.05.10c: Documentation updates.
fixes.2021.05.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.
kvfree_rcu.2021.05.10c: kvfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.05.10c: mem_dump_obj() updates.
nocb.2021.05.12a: RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading.
srcu.2021.05.12a: SRCU updates.
tasks.2021.05.18a: Tasks-RCU updates.
torture.2021.05.10c: Torture-test updates.
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bitmaprange.2021.05.10c: Allow "all" for bitmap ranges.
doc.2021.05.10c: Documentation updates.
fixes.2021.05.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.
kvfree_rcu.2021.05.10c: kvfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.05.10c: mem_dump_obj() updates.
nocb.2021.05.12a: RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading.
srcu.2021.05.12a: SRCU updates.
tasks.2021.05.18a: Tasks-RCU updates.
torture.2021.05.10c: Torture-test updates.
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>srcu: Early test SRCU polling start</title>
<updated>2021-05-12T19:12:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-14T13:24:13+00:00</published>
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Place an early call to start_poll_synchronize_srcu() before the invocation
of call_srcu() on the same srcu_struct structure.

After the later call to srcu_barrier(), the completion of the
first grace period should be visible to a subsequent invocation of
poll_state_synchronize_srcu(), and if not, warn.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Place an early call to start_poll_synchronize_srcu() before the invocation
of call_srcu() on the same srcu_struct structure.

After the later call to srcu_barrier(), the completion of the
first grace period should be visible to a subsequent invocation of
poll_state_synchronize_srcu(), and if not, warn.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Reject RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() false positives</title>
<updated>2021-05-10T23:22:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-05T16:51:05+00:00</published>
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If another lockdep report runs concurrently with an RCU lockdep report
from RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(), the following sequence of events can occur:

1.	debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() sees that lockdep is enabled
	when called from (say) synchronize_rcu().

2.	Lockdep is disabled by a concurrent lockdep report.

3.	debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() evaluates its lockdep-expression
	argument, for example, lock_is_held(&amp;rcu_bh_lock_map).

4.	Because lockdep is now disabled, lock_is_held() plays it safe and
	returns the constant 1.

5.	But in this case, the constant 1 is not safe, because invoking
	synchronize_rcu() under rcu_read_lock_bh() is disallowed.

6.	debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() wrongly invokes lockdep_rcu_suspicious(),
	resulting in a false-positive splat.

This commit therefore changes RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() to check
debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() after checking the lockdep expression,
so that any "safe" returns from lock_is_held() are rejected by
debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled().  This requires memory ordering, which is
supplied by READ_ONCE(debug_locks).  The resulting volatile accesses
prevent the compiler from reordering and the fact that only one variable
is being accessed prevents the underlying hardware from reordering.
The combination works for IA64, which can reorder reads to the same
location, but this is defeated by the volatile accesses, which compile
to load instructions that provide ordering.

Reported-by: syzbot+dde0cc33951735441301@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+88e4f02896967fe1ab0d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Suggested-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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If another lockdep report runs concurrently with an RCU lockdep report
from RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(), the following sequence of events can occur:

1.	debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() sees that lockdep is enabled
	when called from (say) synchronize_rcu().

2.	Lockdep is disabled by a concurrent lockdep report.

3.	debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() evaluates its lockdep-expression
	argument, for example, lock_is_held(&amp;rcu_bh_lock_map).

4.	Because lockdep is now disabled, lock_is_held() plays it safe and
	returns the constant 1.

5.	But in this case, the constant 1 is not safe, because invoking
	synchronize_rcu() under rcu_read_lock_bh() is disallowed.

6.	debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() wrongly invokes lockdep_rcu_suspicious(),
	resulting in a false-positive splat.

This commit therefore changes RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() to check
debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() after checking the lockdep expression,
so that any "safe" returns from lock_is_held() are rejected by
debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled().  This requires memory ordering, which is
supplied by READ_ONCE(debug_locks).  The resulting volatile accesses
prevent the compiler from reordering and the fact that only one variable
is being accessed prevents the underlying hardware from reordering.
The combination works for IA64, which can reorder reads to the same
location, but this is defeated by the volatile accesses, which compile
to load instructions that provide ordering.

Reported-by: syzbot+dde0cc33951735441301@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+88e4f02896967fe1ab0d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Suggested-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Enable rcu_normal_after_boot unconditionally for RT</title>
<updated>2021-01-04T21:43:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julia Cartwright</name>
<email>julia@ni.com</email>
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<published>2020-12-15T14:16:47+00:00</published>
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Expedited RCU grace periods send IPIs to all non-idle CPUs, and thus can
disrupt time-critical code in real-time applications.  However, there
is a portion of boot-time processing (presumably before any real-time
applications have started) where expedited RCU grace periods are the only
option.  And so it is that experience with the -rt patchset indicates that
PREEMPT_RT systems should always set the rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot
kernel boot parameter.

This commit therefore makes the post-boot application environment safe
for real-time applications by making PREEMPT_RT systems disable the
rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot kernel boot parameter and acting as
if this parameter had been set.  This means that post-boot calls to
synchronize_rcu_expedited() will be treated as if they were instead
calls to synchronize_rcu(), thus preventing the IPIs, and thus avoiding
disrupting real-time applications.

Suggested-by: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Julia Cartwright &lt;julia@ni.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
[ paulmck: Update kernel-parameters.txt accordingly. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Expedited RCU grace periods send IPIs to all non-idle CPUs, and thus can
disrupt time-critical code in real-time applications.  However, there
is a portion of boot-time processing (presumably before any real-time
applications have started) where expedited RCU grace periods are the only
option.  And so it is that experience with the -rt patchset indicates that
PREEMPT_RT systems should always set the rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot
kernel boot parameter.

This commit therefore makes the post-boot application environment safe
for real-time applications by making PREEMPT_RT systems disable the
rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot kernel boot parameter and acting as
if this parameter had been set.  This means that post-boot calls to
synchronize_rcu_expedited() will be treated as if they were instead
calls to synchronize_rcu(), thus preventing the IPIs, and thus avoiding
disrupting real-time applications.

Suggested-by: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Julia Cartwright &lt;julia@ni.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
[ paulmck: Update kernel-parameters.txt accordingly. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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