linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/20] rcu: More clearly identify grace-period kthread stack dump

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Message-Id: <1519681990-31349-11-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:53:01 -0800
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/20] rcu: More clearly identify grace-period kthread stack dump

It is not always obvious that the stack dump from a starved grace-period
kthread isn't instead that of a CPU stalling the current grace period.
This commit therefore adds a pr_err() flagging these dumps.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 86fc087c7777..4d7c727020f0 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1350,6 +1350,7 @@ static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(struct rcu_state *rsp)
 		       rsp->gp_kthread ? rsp->gp_kthread->state : ~0,
 		       rsp->gp_kthread ? task_cpu(rsp->gp_kthread) : -1);
 		if (rsp->gp_kthread) {
+			pr_err("RCU grace-period kthread stack dump:\n");
 			sched_show_task(rsp->gp_kthread);
 			wake_up_process(rsp->gp_kthread);
 		}
-- 
2.5.2