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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2008-10-03 01:06:39 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-03 10:36:08 +0200
commit2133b5d7ff531bc15a923db4a6a50bf96c561be9 (patch)
tree5917515eaec573fbc3d4a734769d6184beb83dbb /lib
parentMerge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into core/rcu (diff)
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rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU
This patch adds stalled-CPU detection to Classic RCU. This capability is enabled by a new config variable CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR, which defaults disabled. This is a debugging feature to detect infinite loops in kernel code, not something that non-kernel-hackers would be expected to care about. This feature can detect looping CPUs in !PREEMPT builds and looping CPUs with preemption disabled in PREEMPT builds. This is essentially a port of this functionality from the treercu patch, replacing the stall debug patch that is already in tip/core/rcu (commit 67182ae1c4). The changes from the patch in tip/core/rcu include making the config variable name match that in treercu, changing from seconds to jiffies to avoid spurious warnings, and printing a boot message when this feature is enabled. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index ccede1aeab38..9fee969dd60e 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
after being manually enabled via /proc.
-config RCU_CPU_STALL
+config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
depends on CLASSIC_RCU
default n