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authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>2012-06-12 00:39:43 (GMT)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-09-23 14:41:53 (GMT)
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rcu: Provide OOM handler to motivate lazy RCU callbacks
In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y, CPUs can accumulate a large number of lazy callbacks, which as the name implies will be slow to be invoked. This can be a problem on small-memory systems, where the default 6-second sleep for CPUs having only lazy RCU callbacks could well be fatal. This commit therefore installs an OOM hander that ensures that every CPU with lazy callbacks has at least one non-lazy callback, in turn ensuring timely advancement for these callbacks. Updated to fix bug that disabled OOM killing, noted by Lai Jiangshan. Updated to push the for_each_rcu_flavor() loop into rcu_oom_notify_cpu(), thus reducing the number of IPIs, as suggested by Steven Rostedt. Also to make the for_each_online_cpu() loop be preemptible. (Later, it might be good to use smp_call_function(), as suggested by Peter Zijlstra.) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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