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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt index 13e88fc00f01..a360a8796710 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt @@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ o A CPU-bound real-time task in a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU case, you might see stall-warning messages. + You can use the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter to + increase the scheduling priority of RCU's kthreads, which can + help avoid this problem. However, please note that doing this + can increase your system's context-switch rate and thus degrade + performance. + o A periodic interrupt whose handler takes longer than the time interval between successive pairs of interrupts. This can prevent RCU's kthreads and softirq handlers from running. @@ -219,18 +225,13 @@ an estimate of the total number of RCU callbacks queued across all CPUs In kernels with CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, more information is printed for each CPU: - 0: (64628 ticks this GP) idle=dd5/3fffffffffffffff/0 softirq=82/543 last_accelerate: a345/d342 Nonlazy posted: ..D + 0: (64628 ticks this GP) idle=dd5/3fffffffffffffff/0 softirq=82/543 last_accelerate: a345/d342 dyntick_enabled: 1 The "last_accelerate:" prints the low-order 16 bits (in hex) of the jiffies counter when this CPU last invoked rcu_try_advance_all_cbs() from rcu_needs_cpu() or last invoked rcu_accelerate_cbs() from -rcu_prepare_for_idle(). The "Nonlazy posted:" indicates lazy-callback -status, so that an "l" indicates that all callbacks were lazy at the start -of the last idle period and an "L" indicates that there are currently -no non-lazy callbacks (in both cases, "." 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). +rcu_prepare_for_idle(). "dyntick_enabled: 1" indicates that dyntick-idle +processing is enabled. If the grace period ends just as the stall warning starts printing, there will be a spurious stall-warning message, which will include |
