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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt index 4e959208f736..f3e0625f4290 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt @@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ o A CPU-bound real-time task in a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU case, you might see stall-warning messages. +o A hardware or software issue shuts off the scheduler-clock + interrupt on a CPU that is not in dyntick-idle mode. This + problem really has happened, and seems to be most likely to + result in RCU CPU stall warnings for CONFIG_NO_HZ=n kernels. + o A bug in the RCU implementation. o A hardware failure. This is quite unlikely, but has occurred |