Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757340Ab0HIWPf (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 18:15:35 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:49296 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757194Ab0HIWPV (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 18:15:21 -0400 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/10] rcu: refer RCU CPU stall-warning victims to stallwarn.txt Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:15:11 -0700 Message-Id: <1281392111-25060-10-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.0.6 In-Reply-To: <20100809221447.GA24358@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20100809221447.GA24358@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1762 Lines: 49 There is some documentation on RCU CPU stall warnings contained in Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt, but it will not be apparent to someone who runs into such a warning while under time pressure. This commit therefore adds comments preceding the printk()s pointing out the location of this documentation. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcutree.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 5aab7da..ff21411 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -487,8 +487,11 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp) rcu_print_task_stall(rnp); raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags); - /* OK, time to rat on our buddy... */ - + /* + * OK, time to rat on our buddy... + * See Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt for info on how to debug + * RCU CPU stall warnings. + */ printk(KERN_ERR "INFO: %s detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: {", rsp->name); rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rsp, rnp) { @@ -517,6 +520,11 @@ static void print_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp) unsigned long flags; struct rcu_node *rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp); + /* + * OK, time to rat on ourselves... + * See Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt for info on how to debug + * RCU CPU stall warnings. + */ printk(KERN_ERR "INFO: %s detected stall on CPU %d (t=%lu jiffies)\n", rsp->name, smp_processor_id(), jiffies - rsp->gp_start); trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(); -- 1.7.0.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/