context_tracking: Remove full dynticks' hacky dependency on wide context tracking
Now that the full dynticks subsystem only enables the context tracking
on full dynticks CPUs, lets remove the dependency on CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
This dependency was a hack to enable the context tracking widely for the
full dynticks susbsystem until the latter becomes able to enable it in a
more CPU-finegrained fashion.
Now CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE only stands for testing on archs that
work on support for the context tracking while full dynticks can't be
used yet due to unmet dependencies. It simulates a system where all CPUs
are full dynticks so that RCU user extended quiescent states and dynticks
cputime accounting can be tested on the given arch.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 247084b..ffbf5d7 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -527,13 +527,29 @@
config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
bool "Force context tracking"
depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING
- default CONTEXT_TRACKING
+ default y if !NO_HZ_FULL
help
- Probe on user/kernel boundaries by default in order to
- test the features that rely on it such as userspace RCU extended
- quiescent states.
- This test is there for debugging until we have a real user like the
- full dynticks mode.
+ The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to
+ support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also
+ other dependencies to provide in order to make the full
+ dynticks working.
+
+ This option stands for testing when an arch implements the
+ context tracking backend but doesn't yet fullfill all the
+ requirements to make the full dynticks feature working.
+ Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support
+ for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU
+ userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime
+ accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full
+ dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all
+ CPUs in the system.
+
+ Say Y only if you're working on the developpement of an
+ architecture backend for the context tracking.
+
+ Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you
+ don't want in production.
+
config RCU_FANOUT
int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value"
diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig
index 70f27e8..747bbc7 100644
--- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@
select RCU_USER_QS
select RCU_NOCB_CPU
select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
- select CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE
select IRQ_WORK
help
Adaptively try to shutdown the tick whenever possible, even when