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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-06-30 14:54:09 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-07-17 14:59:03 -0700
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documentation: Describe new expedited stall warnings
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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@@ -163,6 +163,23 @@ message will be about three times the interval between the beginning
of the stall and the first message.
+Stall Warnings for Expedited Grace Periods
+
+If an expedited grace period detects a stall, it will place a message
+like the following in dmesg:
+
+ INFO: rcu_sched detected expedited stalls on CPUs: { 1 2 6 } 26009 jiffies s: 1043
+
+This indicates that CPUs 1, 2, and 6 have failed to respond to a
+reschedule IPI, that the expedited grace period has been going on for
+26,009 jiffies, and that the expedited grace-period sequence counter is
+1043. The fact that this last value is odd indicates that an expedited
+grace period is in flight.
+
+It is entirely possible to see stall warnings from normal and from
+expedited grace periods at about the same time from the same run.
+
+
What Causes RCU CPU Stall Warnings?
So your kernel printed an RCU CPU stall warning. The next question is