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 <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
index 55f9707..53e7d28 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
@@ -152,6 +152,15 @@
"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