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rcu: Export rcu_request_urgent_qs_task()

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If a CPU is executing a long series of non-sleeping system calls,
RCU grace periods can be delayed for on the order of a couple hundred
milliseconds.  This is normally not a problem, but if each system call
does a call_rcu(), those callbacks can stack up.  RCU will eventually
notice this callback storm, but use of rcu_request_urgent_qs_task()
allows the code invoking call_rcu() to give RCU a heads up.

This function is not for general use, not yet, anyway.

Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230706033447.54696-11-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-05 20:34:43 -07:00
committed by Daniel Borkmann
parent 04fabf00b4
commit 43a89baecf
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@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ static inline int rcu_needs_cpu(void)
return 0;
}
static inline void rcu_request_urgent_qs_task(struct task_struct *t) { }
/*
* Take advantage of the fact that there is only one CPU, which
* allows us to ignore virtualization-based context switches.