rcu: Update stall-warning documentation
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
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This kernel configuration parameter defines the period of time
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that RCU will wait from the beginning of a grace period until it
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issues an RCU CPU stall warning. This time period is normally
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sixty seconds.
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21 seconds.
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This configuration parameter may be changed at runtime via the
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/sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_cpu_stall_timeout, however
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this parameter is checked only at the beginning of a cycle.
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So if you are 30 seconds into a 70-second stall, setting this
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So if you are 10 seconds into a 40-second stall, setting this
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sysfs parameter to (say) five will shorten the timeout for the
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-next- stall, or the following warning for the current stall
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(assuming the stall lasts long enough). It will not affect the
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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
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also dump the stacks of any tasks that are blocking the current
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RCU-preempt grace period.
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RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
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CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
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This kernel configuration parameter causes the stall warning to
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print out additional per-CPU diagnostic information, including
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@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ RCU_STALL_DELAY_DELTA
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Although the lockdep facility is extremely useful, it does add
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some overhead. Therefore, under CONFIG_PROVE_RCU, the
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RCU_STALL_DELAY_DELTA macro allows five extra seconds before
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giving an RCU CPU stall warning message.
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giving an RCU CPU stall warning message. (This is a cpp
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macro, not a kernel configuration parameter.)
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RCU_STALL_RAT_DELAY
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@ -52,7 +53,8 @@ RCU_STALL_RAT_DELAY
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However, if the offending CPU does not detect its own stall in
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the number of jiffies specified by RCU_STALL_RAT_DELAY, then
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some other CPU will complain. This delay is normally set to
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two jiffies.
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two jiffies. (This is a cpp macro, not a kernel configuration
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parameter.)
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When a CPU detects that it is stalling, it will print a message similar
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to the following:
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@ -86,7 +88,12 @@ printing, there will be a spurious stall-warning message:
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INFO: rcu_bh_state detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { } (detected by 4, 2502 jiffies)
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This is rare, but does happen from time to time in real life.
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This is rare, but does happen from time to time in real life. It is also
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possible for a zero-jiffy stall to be flagged in this case, depending
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on how the stall warning and the grace-period initialization happen to
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interact. Please note that it is not possible to entirely eliminate this
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sort of false positive without resorting to things like stop_machine(),
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which is overkill for this sort of problem.
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If the CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO kernel configuration parameter is set,
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more information is printed with the stall-warning message, for example:
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@ -216,4 +223,5 @@ that portion of the stack which remains the same from trace to trace.
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If you can reliably trigger the stall, ftrace can be quite helpful.
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RCU bugs can often be debugged with the help of CONFIG_RCU_TRACE
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and with RCU's event tracing.
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and with RCU's event tracing. For information on RCU's event tracing,
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see include/trace/events/rcu.h.
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