documentation: Slow systems can stall RCU grace periods
If a fast system has a worst-case grace-period duration of (say) ten seconds, then running the same workload on a system ten times as slow will get you an RCU CPU stall warning given default stall-warning timeout settings. This commit therefore adds this possibility to stallwarn.txt. Reported-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ o A periodic interrupt whose handler takes longer than the time
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considerably longer than normal, which can in turn result in
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RCU CPU stall warnings.
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o Testing a workload on a fast system, tuning the stall-warning
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timeout down to just barely avoid RCU CPU stall warnings, and then
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running the same workload with the same stall-warning timeout on a
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slow system. Note that thermal throttling and on-demand governors
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can cause a single system to be sometimes fast and sometimes slow!
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o A hardware or software issue shuts off the scheduler-clock
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interrupt on a CPU that is not in dyntick-idle mode. This
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problem really has happened, and seems to be most likely to
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