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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst index e38c587067fc..dfa4db8c0931 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst @@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ warnings: - A CPU looping with bottom halves disabled. -- For !CONFIG_PREEMPTION kernels, a CPU looping anywhere in the kernel - without invoking schedule(). If the looping in the kernel is - really expected and desirable behavior, you might need to add - some calls to cond_resched(). +- For !CONFIG_PREEMPTION kernels, a CPU looping anywhere in the + kernel without potentially invoking schedule(). If the looping + in the kernel is really expected and desirable behavior, you + might need to add some calls to cond_resched(). - Booting Linux using a console connection that is too slow to keep up with the boot-time console-message rate. For example, @@ -108,16 +108,17 @@ warnings: - A bug in the RCU implementation. -- A hardware failure. This is quite unlikely, but has occurred - at least once in real life. A CPU failed in a running system, - becoming unresponsive, but not causing an immediate crash. - This resulted in a series of RCU CPU stall warnings, eventually - leading the realization that the CPU had failed. +- A hardware failure. This is quite unlikely, but is not at all + uncommon in large datacenter. In one memorable case some decades + back, a CPU failed in a running system, becoming unresponsive, + but not causing an immediate crash. This resulted in a series + of RCU CPU stall warnings, eventually leading the realization + that the CPU had failed. -The RCU, RCU-sched, and RCU-tasks implementations have CPU stall warning. -Note that SRCU does *not* have CPU stall warnings. Please note that -RCU only detects CPU stalls when there is a grace period in progress. -No grace period, no CPU stall warnings. +The RCU, RCU-sched, RCU-tasks, and RCU-tasks-trace implementations have +CPU stall warning. Note that SRCU does *not* have CPU stall warnings. +Please note that RCU only detects CPU stalls when there is a grace period +in progress. No grace period, no CPU stall warnings. To diagnose the cause of the stall, inspect the stack traces. The offending function will usually be near the top of the stack. @@ -205,16 +206,21 @@ RCU_STALL_RAT_DELAY rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout ------------------------------- - This boot/sysfs parameter controls the RCU-tasks stall warning - interval. A value of zero or less suppresses RCU-tasks stall - warnings. A positive value sets the stall-warning interval - in seconds. An RCU-tasks stall warning starts with the line: + This boot/sysfs parameter controls the RCU-tasks and + RCU-tasks-trace stall warning intervals. A value of zero or less + suppresses RCU-tasks stall warnings. A positive value sets the + stall-warning interval in seconds. An RCU-tasks stall warning + starts with the line: INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks: And continues with the output of sched_show_task() for each task stalling the current RCU-tasks grace period. + An RCU-tasks-trace stall warning starts (and continues) similarly: + + INFO: rcu_tasks_trace detected stalls on tasks + Interpreting RCU's CPU Stall-Detector "Splats" ============================================== @@ -248,7 +254,8 @@ dynticks counter, which will have an even-numbered value if the CPU is in dyntick-idle mode and an odd-numbered value otherwise. The hex number between the two "/"s is the value of the nesting, which will be a small non-negative number if in the idle loop (as shown above) and a -very large positive number otherwise. +very large positive number otherwise. The number following the final +"/" is the NMI nesting, which will be a small non-negative number. The "softirq=" portion of the message tracks the number of RCU softirq handlers that the stalled CPU has executed. The number before the "/" |