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Zhen Lei be42f00b73 rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis information
Because RCU CPU stall warnings are driven from the scheduling-clock
interrupt handler, a workload consisting of a very large number of
short-duration hardware interrupts can result in misleading stall-warning
messages.  On systems supporting only a single level of interrupts,
that is, where interrupts handlers cannot be interrupted, this can
produce misleading diagnostics.  The stack traces will show the
innocent-bystander interrupted task, not the interrupts that are
at the very least exacerbating the stall.

This situation can be improved by displaying the number of interrupts
and the CPU time that they have consumed.  Diagnosing other types
of stalls can be eased by also providing the count of softirqs and
the CPU time that they consumed as well as the number of context
switches and the task-level CPU time consumed.

Consider the following output given this change:

rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu:     0-....: (1250 ticks this GP) <omitted>
rcu:          hardirqs   softirqs   csw/system
rcu:  number:      624         45            0
rcu: cputime:       69          1         2425   ==> 2500(ms)

This output shows that the number of hard and soft interrupts is small,
there are no context switches, and the system takes up a lot of time. This
indicates that the current task is looping with preemption disabled.

The impact on system performance is negligible because snapshot is
recorded only once for all continuous RCU stalls.

This added debugging information is suppressed by default and can be
enabled by building the kernel with CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_CPUTIME=y or
by booting with rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime=1.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2023-01-05 12:21:11 -08:00
arch treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*() 2022-12-25 13:38:09 -08:00
block treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*() 2022-12-25 13:38:09 -08:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2022-12-14 12:31:09 -08:00
Documentation rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis information 2023-01-05 12:21:11 -08:00
drivers treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*() 2022-12-25 13:38:09 -08:00
fs treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*() 2022-12-25 13:38:09 -08:00
include sched: Add helper nr_context_switches_cpu() 2023-01-05 12:21:11 -08:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.2 2022-12-19 12:33:32 -06:00
io_uring io_uring/net: fix cleanup after recycle 2022-12-19 08:28:28 -07:00
ipc Non-MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 17:28:58 -08:00
kernel rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis information 2023-01-05 12:21:11 -08:00
lib test_maple_tree: add test for mas_spanning_rebalance() on insufficient data 2022-12-21 14:31:52 -08:00
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net treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*() 2022-12-25 13:38:09 -08:00
rust rust: types: add Opaque type 2022-12-04 01:59:16 +01:00
samples Char/Misc driver changes for 6.2-rc1 2022-12-16 03:49:24 -08:00
scripts modernize use of grep in coccicheck 2022-12-23 13:56:41 -08:00
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sound treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*() 2022-12-25 13:38:09 -08:00
tools perf tools fixes and improvements for v6.2: 2nd batch 2022-12-22 11:07:29 -08:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt ARM64: 2022-12-15 11:12:21 -08:00
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MAINTAINERS io_uring-6.2-2022-12-19 2022-12-21 16:28:25 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.2-rc1 2022-12-25 13:41:39 -08:00
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