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SubjectRe: There is a Tasks RCU stall warning
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 05:21:07PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:18:02 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello, Steve,
> >
> > Network connectivity issues... :-/
>
> ug
>
> > There is already a Tasks RCU stall warning, but it waits for
> > ten -minutes- before complaining. You can change this with the
> > rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout kernel boot parameter, if you wish.
> >
> > Or did you wait longer than ten minutes?
>
> Hmm, I may have waited longer. But I can try again and shorten the
> timeout.

Failing that, you might try carefully placed printk() calls in
rcu_tasks_kthread(). The loop spinning on non-empty rcu_tasks_holdouts()
should loop at most once per second, so you can get away with quite a
bit of instrumentation. Unlike much of the rest of RCU. ;-)

Thanx, Paul

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