From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.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" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH rcu 05/14] doc: Add another stall-warning root cause in stallwarn.rst
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:33:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210915233343.3906738-5-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210915233305.GA3906641@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1>
This commit adds a bullet item noting that both deficiencies and surpluses
of calls to rcu_*_enter() and rcu_*_exit() can result in RCU CPU stall
warnings.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst
index 5036df24ae61..28f8ad16db25 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst
@@ -96,6 +96,16 @@ warnings:
the ``rcu_.*timer wakeup didn't happen for`` console-log message,
which will include additional debugging information.
+- A low-level kernel issue that either fails to invoke one of the
+ variants of rcu_user_enter(), rcu_user_exit(), rcu_idle_enter(),
+ rcu_idle_exit(), rcu_irq_enter(), or rcu_irq_exit() on the one
+ hand, or that invokes one of them too many times on the other.
+ Historically, the most frequent issue has been an omission
+ of either irq_enter() or irq_exit(), which in turn invoke
+ rcu_irq_enter() or rcu_irq_exit(), respectively. Building your
+ kernel with CONFIG_RCU_EQS_DEBUG=y can help track down these types
+ of issues, which sometimes arise in architecture-specific code.
+
- A bug in the RCU implementation.
- A hardware failure. This is quite unlikely, but has occurred
--
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-15 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-15 23:33 [PATCH rcu 0/14] Miscellaneous fixes for v5.16 Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 01/14] rcu: Mark accesses to rcu_state.n_force_qs Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 02/14] rcu-nocb: Fix a couple of tree_nocb code-style nits Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 03/14] rcu: Eliminate rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() local variable rnhqp Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 04/14] rcu: Eliminate rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() local variable ruqp Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 06/14] rcu: Fix undefined Kconfig macros Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 07/14] rcu: Comment rcu_gp_init() code waiting for CPU-hotplug operations Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 08/14] rcu: Move rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() to rcu_cpu_starting() Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 09/14] rcu: Simplify rcu_report_dead() call to rcu_report_exp_rdp() Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 10/14] rcu: Make rcutree_dying_cpu() use its "cpu" parameter Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-16 7:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 11/14] rcu: Make rcu_normal_after_boot writable again Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-16 7:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-16 13:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-16 14:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-16 16:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 12/14] rcu: Make rcu update module parameters world-readable Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 13/14] rcu: Fix existing exp request check in sync_sched_exp_online_cleanup() Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 14/14] rcu: Avoid unneeded function call in rcu_read_unlock() Paul E. McKenney
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