nohz_full: Force RCU's grace-period kthreads onto timekeeping CPU
Because RCU's quiescent-state-forcing mechanism is used to drive the
full-system-idle state machine, and because this mechanism is executed
by RCU's grace-period kthreads, this commit forces these kthreads to
run on the timekeeping CPU (tick_do_timer_cpu). To do otherwise would
mean that the RCU grace-period kthreads would force the system into
non-idle state every time they drove the state machine, which would
be just a bit on the futile side.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h
index 6fd3659..5f97eab 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.h
@@ -560,6 +560,7 @@
static bool is_sysidle_rcu_state(struct rcu_state *rsp);
static void rcu_sysidle_report_gp(struct rcu_state *rsp, int isidle,
unsigned long maxj);
+static void rcu_bind_gp_kthread(void);
static void rcu_sysidle_init_percpu_data(struct rcu_dynticks *rdtp);
#endif /* #ifndef RCU_TREE_NONCORE */