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Subject[PATCH diagnostic] Prevent console flood when one CPU sees another AWOL via RCU
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:17:28AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 01:38:17PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > > And here is the patch. It is still a bit raw, so the results should
> > > be viewed with some suspicion. It adds a default-off kernel parameter
> > > CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL which must be enabled.
> > >
> > > Rather than exponential backoff, it backs off to once per 30 seconds.
> > > My feeling upon thinking on it was that if you have stalled RCU grace
> > > periods for that long, a few extra printk() messages are probably the
> > > least of your worries...
> >
> > while this wont debug problems were timer irqs are genuinely stuck for
> > long periods of time, it should find problems with RCU completion logic
> > itself in the presence of correct timer irqs - and the lack of any
> > messages from this debug option should point the finger more firmly in
> > the direction of stalled timer irqs.
> >
> > So i find this debug feature rather useful and have applied it to
> > tip/core/rcu (and cleaned it up a bit). I renamed the config option to
> > CONFIG_DEBUG_RCU_STALL to make it more in line with usual debug option
> > names. Lets see whether -tip testing finds any false positives.
>
> Sounds good!
>
> For whatever it is worth, this diagnostic can also locate latency issues
> in non-CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels, even when those problems are outside of
> preempt_disable() regions. Latency tracer is of course a better tool
> for things -inside- of preempt_disable() regions.

One small change needed to keep from flooding the console when one
CPU notices that another is AWOL. Unless I am missing something subtle.
Otherwise the cleanups look good!

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

rcuclassic.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcuclassic.c b/kernel/rcuclassic.c
index 56b8712..dab2676 100644
--- a/kernel/rcuclassic.c
+++ b/kernel/rcuclassic.c
@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_ctrlblk *rcp)
spin_unlock(&rcp->lock);
return;
}
+ rcp->gp_check = get_seconds() + 30;
spin_unlock(&rcp->lock);

/* OK, time to rat on our buddy... */

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