linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/4] rcu: For RCU grace-period kthread starvation, dump last CPU it ran on

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Date:   Wed,  6 Jan 2021 08:52:29 -0800
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.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, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/4] rcu: For RCU grace-period kthread starvation, dump last CPU it ran on

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>

When the RCU CPU stall-warning code detects that the RCU grace-period
kthread is being starved, it dumps that kthread's stack.  This can
sometimes be useful, but it is also useful to know what is running on the
CPU that this kthread is attempting to run on.  This commit therefore
adds a stack trace of this CPU in order to help track down whatever it
is that might be preventing RCU's grace-period kthread from running.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
index 70d48c5..35c1355 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
@@ -449,20 +449,27 @@ static void print_cpu_stall_info(int cpu)
 /* Complain about starvation of grace-period kthread.  */
 static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(void)
 {
+	int cpu;
 	struct task_struct *gpk = rcu_state.gp_kthread;
 	unsigned long j;
 
 	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=%#lx ->cpu=%d\n",
 		       rcu_state.name, j,
 		       (long)rcu_seq_current(&rcu_state.gp_seq),
 		       data_race(rcu_state.gp_flags),
 		       gp_state_getname(rcu_state.gp_state), rcu_state.gp_state,
-		       gpk ? gpk->state : ~0, gpk ? task_cpu(gpk) : -1);
+		       gpk ? gpk->state : ~0, cpu);
 		if (gpk) {
 			pr_err("\tUnless %s kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior.\n", rcu_state.name);
 			pr_err("RCU grace-period kthread stack dump:\n");
 			sched_show_task(gpk);
+			if (cpu >= 0) {
+				pr_err("Stack dump where RCU grace-period kthread last ran:\n");
+				if (!trigger_single_cpu_backtrace(cpu))
+					dump_cpu_task(cpu);
+			}
 			wake_up_process(gpk);
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.9.5