From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> This commit adds a message that is printed if the relevant grace-period kthread has not been able to run for the two seconds preceding the stall warning. (The two seconds is double the maximum interval between successive bouts of quiescent-state forcing.)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> --- Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt | 9 +++++++++ kernel/rcu/tree.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt index 55f9707fe60a..53e7d2856db6 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt @@ -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 diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index 6284c19b39ba..5110a1767c22 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -1073,6 +1073,21 @@ static void record_gp_stall_check_time(struct rcu_state *rsp) } /* + * Complain about starvation of grace-period kthread. + */ +static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(struct rcu_state *rsp) +{ + unsigned long gpa; + unsigned long j; + + j = jiffies; + gpa = ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity); + if (j - gpa > 2 * HZ) + pr_err("%s kthread starved for %ld jiffies!\n", + rsp->name, j - gpa); +} + +/* * Dump stacks of all tasks running on stalled CPUs. */ static void rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(struct rcu_state *rsp) @@ -1169,9 +1184,10 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long gpnum) } /* Complain about tasks blocking the grace period. */ - rcu_print_detail_task_stall(rsp); + rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(rsp); + force_quiescent_state(rsp); /* Kick them all. */ } @@ -1196,6 +1212,9 @@ static void print_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp) pr_cont(" (t=%lu jiffies g=%ld c=%ld q=%lu)\n", jiffies - rsp->gp_start, (long)rsp->gpnum, (long)rsp->completed, totqlen); + + rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(rsp); + rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(rsp); raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags); -- 1.8.1.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
