rcu: enable rcu_normal_after_boot by default for RT

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Nov 01 2018 - 19:02:43 EST


> The forcing of an expedited grace period is an expensive and very
> RT-application unfriendly operation, as it forcibly preempts all running
> tasks on CPUs which are preventing the gp from expiring.
>
> By default, as a policy decision, disable the expediting of grace
> periods (after boot) on configurations which enable PREEMPT_RT_FULL.
>
> Suggested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Cartwright <julia@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

In case it matters:

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Alternatively, any reason that I should not pull this into -rcu?

Thanx, Paul

> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/update.c b/kernel/rcu/update.c
> index f56c0fbdf22e..12027723abaf 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/update.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/update.c
> @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ extern int rcu_expedited; /* from sysctl */
> module_param(rcu_expedited, int, 0);
> extern int rcu_normal; /* from sysctl */
> module_param(rcu_normal, int, 0);
> -static int rcu_normal_after_boot;
> +static int rcu_normal_after_boot = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL);
> module_param(rcu_normal_after_boot, int, 0);
> #endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */
>