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1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2#
3# RCU-related configuration options
4#
5
6menu "RCU Subsystem"
7
8config TREE_RCU
9	bool
10	default y if SMP
11	help
12	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
13	  designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or
14	  thousands of CPUs.  It also scales down nicely to
15	  smaller systems.
16
17config PREEMPT_RCU
18	bool
19	default y if PREEMPTION
20	select TREE_RCU
21	help
22	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
23	  designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or
24	  thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response
25	  is also required.  It also scales down nicely to
26	  smaller systems.
27
28	  Select this option if you are unsure.
29
30config TINY_RCU
31	bool
32	default y if !PREEMPTION && !SMP
33	help
34	  This option selects the RCU implementation that is
35	  designed for UP systems from which real-time response
36	  is not required.  This option greatly reduces the
37	  memory footprint of RCU.
38
39config RCU_EXPERT
40	bool "Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration"
41	default n
42	help
43	  This option needs to be enabled if you wish to make
44	  expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration.  By default,
45	  no such adjustments can be made, which has the often-beneficial
46	  side-effect of preventing "make oldconfig" from asking you all
47	  sorts of detailed questions about how you would like numerous
48	  obscure RCU options to be set up.
49
50	  Say Y if you need to make expert-level adjustments to RCU.
51
52	  Say N if you are unsure.
53
54config SRCU
55	bool
56	help
57	  This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
58	  permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
59	  sections.
60
61config TINY_SRCU
62	bool
63	default y if SRCU && TINY_RCU
64	help
65	  This option selects the single-CPU non-preemptible version of SRCU.
66
67config TREE_SRCU
68	bool
69	default y if SRCU && !TINY_RCU
70	help
71	  This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU.
72
73config TASKS_RCU_GENERIC
74	def_bool TASKS_RCU || TASKS_RUDE_RCU || TASKS_TRACE_RCU
75	select SRCU
76	help
77	  This option enables generic infrastructure code supporting
78	  task-based RCU implementations.  Not for manual selection.
79
80config TASKS_RCU
81	def_bool PREEMPTION
82	help
83	  This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
84	  only voluntary context switch (not preemption!), idle, and
85	  user-mode execution as quiescent states.  Not for manual selection.
86
87config TASKS_RUDE_RCU
88	def_bool 0
89	help
90	  This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
91	  only context switch (including preemption) and user-mode
92	  execution as quiescent states.  It forces IPIs and context
93	  switches on all online CPUs, including idle ones, so use
94	  with caution.
95
96config TASKS_TRACE_RCU
97	def_bool 0
98	help
99	  This option enables a task-based RCU implementation that uses
100	  explicit rcu_read_lock_trace() read-side markers, and allows
101	  these readers to appear in the idle loop as well as on the CPU
102	  hotplug code paths.  It can force IPIs on online CPUs, including
103	  idle ones, so use with caution.
104
105config RCU_STALL_COMMON
106	def_bool TREE_RCU
107	help
108	  This option enables RCU CPU stall code that is common between
109	  the TINY and TREE variants of RCU.  The purpose is to allow
110	  the tiny variants to disable RCU CPU stall warnings, while
111	  making these warnings mandatory for the tree variants.
112
113config RCU_NEED_SEGCBLIST
114	def_bool ( TREE_RCU || TREE_SRCU )
115
116config RCU_FANOUT
117	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
118	range 2 64 if 64BIT
119	range 2 32 if !64BIT
120	depends on TREE_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
121	default 64 if 64BIT
122	default 32 if !64BIT
123	help
124	  This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations
125	  of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with
126	  large numbers of CPUs.  This value must be at least the fourth
127	  root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS to be insanely large.
128	  The default value of RCU_FANOUT should be used for production
129	  systems, but if you are stress-testing the RCU implementation
130	  itself, small RCU_FANOUT values allow you to test large-system
131	  code paths on small(er) systems.
132
133	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
134	  Take the default if unsure.
135
136config RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
137	int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU leaf-level fanout value"
138	range 2 64 if 64BIT
139	range 2 32 if !64BIT
140	depends on TREE_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
141	default 16
142	help
143	  This option controls the leaf-level fanout of hierarchical
144	  implementations of RCU, and allows trading off cache misses
145	  against lock contention.  Systems that synchronize their
146	  scheduling-clock interrupts for energy-efficiency reasons will
147	  want the default because the smaller leaf-level fanout keeps
148	  lock contention levels acceptably low.  Very large systems
149	  (hundreds or thousands of CPUs) will instead want to set this
150	  value to the maximum value possible in order to reduce the
151	  number of cache misses incurred during RCU's grace-period
152	  initialization.  These systems tend to run CPU-bound, and thus
153	  are not helped by synchronized interrupts, and thus tend to
154	  skew them, which reduces lock contention enough that large
155	  leaf-level fanouts work well.  That said, setting leaf-level
156	  fanout to a large number will likely cause problematic
157	  lock contention on the leaf-level rcu_node structures unless
158	  you boot with the skew_tick kernel parameter.
159
160	  Select a specific number if testing RCU itself.
161
162	  Select the maximum permissible value for large systems, but
163	  please understand that you may also need to set the skew_tick
164	  kernel boot parameter to avoid contention on the rcu_node
165	  structure's locks.
166
167	  Take the default if unsure.
168
169config RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
170	bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods"
171	depends on NO_HZ_COMMON && SMP && RCU_EXPERT
172	default n
173	help
174	  This option permits CPUs to enter dynticks-idle state even if
175	  they have RCU callbacks queued, and prevents RCU from waking
176	  these CPUs up more than roughly once every four jiffies (by
177	  default, you can adjust this using the rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay
178	  parameter), thus improving energy efficiency.  On the other
179	  hand, this option increases the duration of RCU grace periods,
180	  for example, slowing down synchronize_rcu().
181
182	  Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, and you
183	  	don't care about increased grace-period durations.
184
185	  Say N if you are unsure.
186
187config RCU_BOOST
188	bool "Enable RCU priority boosting"
189	depends on RT_MUTEXES && PREEMPT_RCU && RCU_EXPERT
190	default n
191	help
192	  This option boosts the priority of preempted RCU readers that
193	  block the current preemptible RCU grace period for too long.
194	  This option also prevents heavy loads from blocking RCU
195	  callback invocation.
196
197	  Say Y here if you are working with real-time apps or heavy loads
198	  Say N here if you are unsure.
199
200config RCU_BOOST_DELAY
201	int "Milliseconds to delay boosting after RCU grace-period start"
202	range 0 3000
203	depends on RCU_BOOST
204	default 500
205	help
206	  This option specifies the time to wait after the beginning of
207	  a given grace period before priority-boosting preempted RCU
208	  readers blocking that grace period.  Note that any RCU reader
209	  blocking an expedited RCU grace period is boosted immediately.
210
211	  Accept the default if unsure.
212
213config RCU_NOCB_CPU
214	bool "Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs"
215	depends on TREE_RCU
216	depends on RCU_EXPERT || NO_HZ_FULL
217	default n
218	help
219	  Use this option to reduce OS jitter for aggressive HPC or
220	  real-time workloads.	It can also be used to offload RCU
221	  callback invocation to energy-efficient CPUs in battery-powered
222	  asymmetric multiprocessors.
223
224	  This option offloads callback invocation from the set of CPUs
225	  specified at boot time by the rcu_nocbs parameter.  For each
226	  such CPU, a kthread ("rcuox/N") will be created to invoke
227	  callbacks, where the "N" is the CPU being offloaded, and where
228	  the "p" for RCU-preempt (PREEMPTION kernels) and "s" for RCU-sched
229	  (!PREEMPTION kernels).  Nothing prevents this kthread from running
230	  on the specified CPUs, but (1) the kthreads may be preempted
231	  between each callback, and (2) affinity or cgroups can be used
232	  to force the kthreads to run on whatever set of CPUs is desired.
233
234	  Say Y here if you want to help to debug reduced OS jitter.
235	  Say N here if you are unsure.
236
237config TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB
238	bool "Tasks Trace RCU readers use memory barriers in user and idle"
239	depends on RCU_EXPERT
240	default PREEMPT_RT || NR_CPUS < 8
241	help
242	  Use this option to further reduce the number of IPIs sent
243	  to CPUs executing in userspace or idle during tasks trace
244	  RCU grace periods.  Given that a reasonable setting of
245	  the rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay kernel boot parameter
246	  eliminates such IPIs for many workloads, proper setting
247	  of this Kconfig option is important mostly for aggressive
248	  real-time installations and for battery-powered devices,
249	  hence the default chosen above.
250
251	  Say Y here if you hate IPIs.
252	  Say N here if you hate read-side memory barriers.
253	  Take the default if you are unsure.
254
255endmenu # "RCU Subsystem"
256