rcu: Improve diagnostics for failed RCU grace-period start

If a grace period fails to start (for example, because you commented
out the last two lines of rcu_accelerate_cbs_unlocked()), rcu_core()
will invoke rcu_check_gp_start_stall(), which will notice and complain.
However, this complaint is lacking crucial debugging information such
as when the last wakeup executed and what the value of ->gp_seq was at
that time.  This commit therefore removes the current pr_alert() from
rcu_check_gp_start_stall(), instead invoking show_rcu_gp_kthreads(),
which has been updated to print the needed information, which is collected
by rcu_gp_kthread_wake().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Paul E. McKenney
2018-12-10 16:09:49 -08:00
parent a9fefdb257
commit fd897573fa
2 changed files with 34 additions and 23 deletions

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@@ -309,6 +309,8 @@ struct rcu_state {
struct swait_queue_head gp_wq; /* Where GP task waits. */
short gp_flags; /* Commands for GP task. */
short gp_state; /* GP kthread sleep state. */
unsigned long gp_wake_time; /* Last GP kthread wake. */
unsigned long gp_wake_seq; /* ->gp_seq at ^^^. */
/* End of fields guarded by root rcu_node's lock. */