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McKenney" To: rcu@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, joel@joelfernandes.org, "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/12] doc: Add rcutree.kthread_prio pointer to stallwarn.txt Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 15:37:43 -0700 Message-Id: <20190801223747.15560-8-paulmck@linux.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 In-Reply-To: <20190801223708.GA14862@linux.ibm.com> References: <20190801223708.GA14862@linux.ibm.com> X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:,, definitions=2019-08-01_09:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=13 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1906280000 definitions=main-1908010238 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This commit adds mention of the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter to the discussion of how high-priority real-time tasks can result in RCU CPU stall warnings. (However, this does not necessarily help when the high-priority real-time tasks are using dubious deadlines.) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt index 13e88fc00f01..f48f4621ccbc 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt @@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ o A CPU-bound real-time task in a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU case, you might see stall-warning messages. + You can use the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter to + increase the scheduling priority of RCU's kthreads, which can + help avoid this problem. However, please note that doing this + can increase your system's context-switch rate and thus degrade + performance. + o A periodic interrupt whose handler takes longer than the time interval between successive pairs of interrupts. This can prevent RCU's kthreads and softirq handlers from running. -- 2.17.1