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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>,
	Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>, Wang Lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 02/10] rcu: Use task_state_to_char() in stall-warning prints
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:23:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260716002339.11717-2-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bc69cc01-509e-43f8-a46a-d77946e7adc7@paulmck-laptop>

From: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>

RCU stall warnings currently print task states as raw hexadecimal
values, requiring developers to manually decode them.

Use task_state_to_char() so that stall warnings show the same symbolic
task-state representation used elsewhere in the kernel.

For example:
	->state=0x402  becomes  ->state=I
	->state=0x0    becomes  ->state=R
	->state=0x2    becomes  ->state=D

This improves readability while preserving the underlying diagnostic
information.

Suggested-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Co-developed-by: Wang Lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang Lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
index cf7ae51cba4033..45b9856ccd2b23 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
@@ -573,13 +573,13 @@ static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(void)
 
 	if (rcu_is_gp_kthread_starving(&j)) {
 		cpu = gpk ? task_cpu(gpk) : -1;
-		pr_err("%s kthread starved for %ld jiffies! g%ld f%#x %s(%d) ->state=%#x ->cpu=%d\n",
+		pr_err("%s kthread starved for %ld jiffies! g%ld f%#x %s(%d) ->state=%c ->cpu=%d\n",
 		       rcu_state.name, j,
 		       (long)rcu_seq_current(&rcu_state.gp_seq),
 		       data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_flags)),
 		       gp_state_getname(rcu_state.gp_state),
 		       data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state)),
-		       gpk ? data_race(READ_ONCE(gpk->__state)) : ~0, cpu);
+		       gpk ? task_state_to_char(gpk) : '?', cpu);
 		if (gpk) {
 			struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data, cpu);
 
@@ -616,12 +616,12 @@ static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_expired_fqs_timer(void)
 	    time_after(jiffies, jiffies_fqs + RCU_STALL_MIGHT_MIN) &&
 	    gpk && !READ_ONCE(gpk->on_rq)) {
 		cpu = task_cpu(gpk);
-		pr_err("%s kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for %ld jiffies! g%ld f%#x %s(%d) ->state=%#x\n",
+		pr_err("%s kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for %ld jiffies! g%ld f%#x %s(%d) ->state=%c\n",
 		       rcu_state.name, (jiffies - jiffies_fqs),
 		       (long)rcu_seq_current(&rcu_state.gp_seq),
 		       data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_flags)), // Diagnostic read
 		       gp_state_getname(RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS), RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS,
-		       data_race(READ_ONCE(gpk->__state)));
+		       task_state_to_char(gpk));
 		pr_err("\tPossible timer handling issue on cpu=%d timer-softirq=%u\n",
 		       cpu, kstat_softirqs_cpu(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, cpu));
 	}
@@ -948,10 +948,10 @@ void show_rcu_gp_kthreads(void)
 	jr = j - data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_req_activity));
 	js = j - data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_start));
 	jw = j - data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_wake_time));
-	pr_info("%s: wait state: %s(%d) ->state: %#x ->rt_priority %u delta ->gp_start %lu ->gp_activity %lu ->gp_req_activity %lu ->gp_wake_time %lu ->gp_wake_seq %ld ->gp_seq %ld ->gp_seq_needed %ld ->gp_max %lu ->gp_flags %#x\n",
+	pr_info("%s: wait state: %s(%d) ->state: %c ->rt_priority %u delta ->gp_start %lu ->gp_activity %lu ->gp_req_activity %lu ->gp_wake_time %lu ->gp_wake_seq %ld ->gp_seq %ld ->gp_seq_needed %ld ->gp_max %lu ->gp_flags %#x\n",
 		rcu_state.name, gp_state_getname(rcu_state.gp_state),
 		data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state)),
-		t ? data_race(READ_ONCE(t->__state)) : 0x1ffff, t ? t->rt_priority : 0xffU,
+		t ? task_state_to_char(t) : '?', t ? t->rt_priority : 0xffU,
 		js, ja, jr, jw, (long)data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_wake_seq)),
 		(long)data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_seq)),
 		(long)data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_get_root()->gp_seq_needed)),
-- 
2.40.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-16  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-16  0:23 [PATCH 0/10] Miscellaneous RCU updates for v7.3 Paul E. McKenney
2026-07-16  0:23 ` [PATCH 01/10] rcu-tasks: TASKS_TRACE_RCU doesn't need IRQ_WORK Paul E. McKenney
2026-07-16  0:23 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2026-07-16  0:23 ` [PATCH 03/10] rcu: Mark __rcu_access_pointer() as context_unsafe() Paul E. McKenney
2026-07-16  0:23 ` [PATCH 04/10] doc: RCU: Adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family - part 2/2 Paul E. McKenney
2026-07-16  0:23 ` [PATCH 05/10] rcu-tasks: Remove unused struct rcu_tasks's->n_ipis_fails variables Paul E. McKenney
2026-07-16  0:23 ` [PATCH 06/10] rcu-tasks: Dump rcu tasks status when the boot-test failed Paul E. McKenney
2026-07-16  0:23 ` [PATCH 07/10] doc: RCU: Fix brackets Paul E. McKenney
2026-07-16  0:23 ` [PATCH 08/10] rcu-tasks: Apply READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() to fix data race Paul E. McKenney
2026-07-16  0:23 ` [PATCH 09/10] rcu-tasks: Remove smp_mb() in rcu_spawn_tasks_kthread_generic() Paul E. McKenney
2026-07-16  0:23 ` [PATCH 10/10] rcu-tasks: Update comments in call_rcu_tasks_generic() Paul E. McKenney

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