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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt')
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt index ed186a902d31..b57c0c1cdac6 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT 21 seconds. This configuration parameter may be changed at runtime via the - /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_cpu_stall_timeout, however + /sys/module/rcupdate/parameters/rcu_cpu_stall_timeout, however this parameter is checked only at the beginning of a cycle. So if you are 10 seconds into a 40-second stall, setting this sysfs parameter to (say) five will shorten the timeout for the @@ -152,6 +152,15 @@ no non-lazy callbacks ("." is printed otherwise, as shown above) and "D" indicates that dyntick-idle processing is enabled ("." is printed otherwise, for example, if disabled via the "nohz=" kernel boot parameter). +If the relevant grace-period kthread has been unable to run prior to +the stall warning, the following additional line is printed: + + rcu_preempt kthread starved for 2023 jiffies! + +Starving the grace-period kthreads of CPU time can of course result in +RCU CPU stall warnings even when all CPUs and tasks have passed through +the required quiescent states. + Multiple Warnings From One Stall @@ -187,6 +196,11 @@ o For !CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels, a CPU looping anywhere in the behavior, you might need to replace some of the cond_resched() calls with calls to cond_resched_rcu_qs(). +o Anything that prevents RCU's grace-period kthreads from running. + This can result in the "All QSes seen" console-log message. + This message will include information on when the kthread last + ran and how often it should be expected to run. + o A CPU-bound real-time task in a CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel, which might happen to preempt a low-priority task in the middle of an RCU read-side critical section. This is especially damaging if |