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Paul E. McKenney a7c8655b07 sched/isolation: Eliminate NO_HZ_FULL_ALL 
Commit 6f1982fedd ("sched/isolation: Handle the nohz_full= parameter")
broke CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y kernels.  This breakage is due to the code
under CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL failing to invoke the shiny new housekeeping
functions.  This means that rcutorture scenario TREE04 now emits RCU CPU
stall warnings due to the RCU grace-period kthreads not being awakened
at a time of their choosing, or perhaps even not at all:

[   27.731422] rcu_bh kthread starved for 21001 jiffies! g18446744073709551369 c18446744073709551368 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(3) ->state=0x402 ->cpu=3
[   27.731423] rcu_bh          I14936     9      2 0x80080000
[   27.731435] Call Trace:
[   27.731440]  __schedule+0x31a/0x6d0
[   27.731442]  schedule+0x31/0x80
[   27.731446]  schedule_timeout+0x15a/0x320
[   27.731453]  ? call_timer_fn+0x130/0x130
[   27.731457]  rcu_gp_kthread+0x66c/0xea0
[   27.731458]  ? rcu_gp_kthread+0x66c/0xea0

Because no one has complained about CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y being broken,
I hypothesize that no one is in fact using it, other than rcutorture.
This commit therefore eliminates CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL and updates
rcutorture's config files to instead use the nohz_full= kernel parameter
to put the desired CPUs into nohz_full mode.

Fixes: 6f1982fedd ("sched/isolation: Handle the nohz_full= parameter")

Reported-by: kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
History 2018-02-15 15:40:37 -08:00
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00-INDEX Doc: update 00-INDEX files to reflect the runnable code move 2016-10-10 07:12:09 -06:00
highres.txt docs: highres: fix broken urls 2017-09-26 14:58:23 -06:00
hpet.txt samples: move timers example code from Documentation 2016-09-23 11:51:58 -06:00
hrtimers.txt Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes 2016-04-28 07:51:59 -06:00
NO_HZ.txt sched/isolation: Eliminate NO_HZ_FULL_ALL 2018-02-15 15:40:37 -08:00
timekeeping.txt clocksource: document some basic timekeeping concepts 2014-07-23 15:07:13 -07:00
timers-howto.txt doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined") 2011-05-17 10:52:02 +02:00