From fb81a44b88e6173ed0f6e9d6a1afa5305fb63f6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 08:35:02 -0800 Subject: rcu: Add GP-kthread-starvation checks to CPU stall warnings 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 --- Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3