tree 7ec42bf018ab62c3c2180fbe168cd6130556cb80
parent 687d7a960aea46e016182c7ce346d62c4dbd0366
author Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 1279724756 -0700
committer Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 1282263484 -0700

rcu: Allow RCU CPU stall warnings to be off at boot, but manually enablable

Currently, if RCU CPU stall warnings are enabled, they are enabled
immediately upon boot.  They can be manually disabled via /sys (and
also re-enabled via /sys), and are automatically disabled upon panic.
However, some users need RCU CPU stalls to be disabled at boot time,
but to be enabled without rebuilding/rebooting.  For example, someone
running a real-time application in production might not want the
additional latency of RCU CPU stall detection in normal operation, but
might need to enable it at any point for fault isolation purposes.

This commit therefore provides a new CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE
kernel configuration parameter that maintains the current behavior
(enable at boot) by default, but allows a kernel to be configured
with RCU CPU stall detection built into the kernel, but disabled at
boot time.

Requested-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Requested-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>