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.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index eca70f44..64eaafb 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -1303,6 +1303,7 @@
struct rcu_data *rdp;
struct rcu_node *rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp);
+ rcu_bind_gp_kthread();
raw_spin_lock_irq(&rnp->lock);
rsp->gp_flags = 0; /* Clear all flags: New grace period. */
