+#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST
+
+/*
+ * Wake up rcu_kthread() to process callbacks now eligible for invocation
+ * or to boost readers.
+ */
+static void invoke_rcu_callbacks(void)
+{
+ have_rcu_kthread_work = 1;
+ wake_up(&rcu_kthread_wq);
+}
+
+/*
+ * This kthread invokes RCU callbacks whose grace periods have
+ * elapsed. It is awakened as needed, and takes the place of the
+ * RCU_SOFTIRQ that is used for this purpose when boosting is disabled.
+ * This is a kthread, but it is never stopped, at least not until
+ * the system goes down.
+ */
+static int rcu_kthread(void *arg)
+{
+ unsigned long work;
+ unsigned long morework;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ for (;;) {
+ wait_event_interruptible(rcu_kthread_wq,
+ have_rcu_kthread_work != 0);
+ morework = rcu_boost();
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ work = have_rcu_kthread_work;
+ have_rcu_kthread_work = morework;
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+ if (work)
+ rcu_process_callbacks(NULL);
+ schedule_timeout_interruptible(1); /* Leave CPU for others. */
+ }
+
+ return 0; /* Not reached, but needed to shut gcc up. */
+}
+
+/*
+ * Spawn the kthread that invokes RCU callbacks.
+ */
+static int __init rcu_spawn_kthreads(void)
+{
+ struct sched_param sp;
+
+ rcu_kthread_task = kthread_run(rcu_kthread, NULL, "rcu_kthread");
+ sp.sched_priority = RCU_BOOST_PRIO;
+ sched_setscheduler_nocheck(rcu_kthread_task, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
+ return 0;
+}
+early_initcall(rcu_spawn_kthreads);
+
+#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */
+
+/*
+ * Start up softirq processing of callbacks.
+ */
+void invoke_rcu_callbacks(void)
+{
+ raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ);
+}
+
+void rcu_init(void)
+{
+ open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks);
+}
+
+#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */
+