linux/kernel/rcu
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
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Kconfig printk changes for 6.2 2022-12-12 09:01:36 -08:00
Kconfig.debug rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis information 2023-01-05 12:21:11 -08:00
Makefile rcuperf: Change rcuperf to rcuscale 2020-08-24 18:39:24 -07:00
rcu_segcblist.c rcu: Clarify fill-the-gap comment in rcu_segcblist_advance() 2022-04-11 17:28:48 -07:00
rcu_segcblist.h rcu: Mark writes to the rcu_segcblist structure's ->flags field 2022-02-14 10:36:58 -08:00
rcu.h rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis information 2023-01-05 12:21:11 -08:00
rcuscale.c rcu/rcuscale: Use call_rcu_hurry() for async reader test 2022-11-29 14:04:33 -08:00
rcutorture.c Merge branches 'doc.2022.10.20a', 'fixes.2022.10.21a', 'lazy.2022.11.30a', 'srcunmisafe.2022.11.09a', 'torture.2022.10.18c' and 'torturescript.2022.10.20a' into HEAD 2022-11-30 13:20:05 -08:00
refscale.c refscale: Convert test_lock spinlock to raw_spinlock 2022-06-21 15:57:04 -07:00
srcutiny.c srcu: Make Tiny synchronize_srcu() check for readers 2022-12-01 15:49:12 -08:00
srcutree.c srcu: Debug NMI safety even on archs that don't require it 2022-10-21 10:44:11 -07:00
sync.c rcu/sync: Use call_rcu_hurry() instead of call_rcu 2022-11-29 14:04:33 -08:00
tasks.h Networking changes for 6.2. 2022-12-13 15:47:48 -08:00
tiny.c rcu: Make call_rcu() lazy to save power 2022-11-29 14:02:23 -08:00
tree_exp.h rcu: Make call_rcu() lazy to save power 2022-11-29 14:02:23 -08:00
tree_nocb.h rcu: Shrinker for lazy rcu 2022-11-29 14:02:52 -08:00
tree_plugin.h rcu: Synchronize ->qsmaskinitnext in rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity() 2022-10-18 14:59:57 -07:00
tree_stall.h rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis information 2023-01-05 12:21:11 -08:00
tree.c rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis information 2023-01-05 12:21:11 -08:00
tree.h rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis information 2023-01-05 12:21:11 -08:00
update.c rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis information 2023-01-05 12:21:11 -08:00