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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-05-15 18:30:32 -0400
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-06-08 21:52:43 -0400
commitae91aa0adb14dc33114d566feca2f7cb7a96b8b7 (patch)
treed52dfad4c7c9be2acac7c8f0c6890acd38547d60 /Documentation/RCU
parentbd8cc5a062f41e334596edbe823e2fa0adddd1b7 (diff)
rcu: Remove debugfs tracing
RCU's debugfs tracing used to be the only reasonable low-level debug information available, but ftrace and event tracing has since surpassed the RCU debugfs level of usefulness. This commit therefore removes RCU's debugfs tracing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/00-INDEX2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/trace.txt535
3 files changed, 1 insertions, 538 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/00-INDEX b/Documentation/RCU/00-INDEX
index 1672573b037a..f46980c060aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/00-INDEX
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ stallwarn.txt
28 - RCU CPU stall warnings (module parameter rcu_cpu_stall_suppress) 28 - RCU CPU stall warnings (module parameter rcu_cpu_stall_suppress)
29torture.txt 29torture.txt
30 - RCU Torture Test Operation (CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST) 30 - RCU Torture Test Operation (CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST)
31trace.txt
32 - CONFIG_RCU_TRACE debugfs files and formats
33UP.txt 31UP.txt
34 - RCU on Uniprocessor Systems 32 - RCU on Uniprocessor Systems
35whatisRCU.txt 33whatisRCU.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
index 0e6550a8c926..95b30fa25d56 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
@@ -2034,7 +2034,7 @@ guard against mishaps and misuse:
2034 some other synchronization mechanism, for example, reference 2034 some other synchronization mechanism, for example, reference
2035 counting. 2035 counting.
2036<li> In kernels built with <tt>CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y</tt>, RCU-related 2036<li> In kernels built with <tt>CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y</tt>, RCU-related
2037 information is provided via both debugfs and event tracing. 2037 information is provided via event tracing.
2038<li> Open-coded use of <tt>rcu_assign_pointer()</tt> and 2038<li> Open-coded use of <tt>rcu_assign_pointer()</tt> and
2039 <tt>rcu_dereference()</tt> to create typical linked 2039 <tt>rcu_dereference()</tt> to create typical linked
2040 data structures can be surprisingly error-prone. 2040 data structures can be surprisingly error-prone.
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 6549012033f9..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,535 +0,0 @@
1CONFIG_RCU_TRACE debugfs Files and Formats
2
3
4The rcutree and rcutiny implementations of RCU provide debugfs trace
5output that summarizes counters and state. This information is useful for
6debugging RCU itself, and can sometimes also help to debug abuses of RCU.
7The following sections describe the debugfs files and formats, first
8for rcutree and next for rcutiny.
9
10
11CONFIG_TREE_RCU and CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU debugfs Files and Formats
12
13These implementations of RCU provide several debugfs directories under the
14top-level directory "rcu":
15
16rcu/rcu_bh
17rcu/rcu_preempt
18rcu/rcu_sched
19
20Each directory contains files for the corresponding flavor of RCU.
21Note that rcu/rcu_preempt is only present for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU.
22For CONFIG_TREE_RCU, the RCU flavor maps onto the RCU-sched flavor,
23so that activity for both appears in rcu/rcu_sched.
24
25In addition, the following file appears in the top-level directory:
26rcu/rcutorture. This file displays rcutorture test progress. The output
27of "cat rcu/rcutorture" looks as follows:
28
29rcutorture test sequence: 0 (test in progress)
30rcutorture update version number: 615
31
32The first line shows the number of rcutorture tests that have completed
33since boot. If a test is currently running, the "(test in progress)"
34string will appear as shown above. The second line shows the number of
35update cycles that the current test has started, or zero if there is
36no test in progress.
37
38
39Within each flavor directory (rcu/rcu_bh, rcu/rcu_sched, and possibly
40also rcu/rcu_preempt) the following files will be present:
41
42rcudata:
43 Displays fields in struct rcu_data.
44rcuexp:
45 Displays statistics for expedited grace periods.
46rcugp:
47 Displays grace-period counters.
48rcuhier:
49 Displays the struct rcu_node hierarchy.
50rcu_pending:
51 Displays counts of the reasons rcu_pending() decided that RCU had
52 work to do.
53rcuboost:
54 Displays RCU boosting statistics. Only present if
55 CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y.
56
57The output of "cat rcu/rcu_preempt/rcudata" looks as follows:
58
59 0!c=30455 g=30456 cnq=1/0:1 dt=126535/140000000000000/0 df=2002 of=4 ql=0/0 qs=N... b=10 ci=74572 nci=0 co=1131 ca=716
60 1!c=30719 g=30720 cnq=1/0:0 dt=132007/140000000000000/0 df=1874 of=10 ql=0/0 qs=N... b=10 ci=123209 nci=0 co=685 ca=982
61 2!c=30150 g=30151 cnq=1/1:1 dt=138537/140000000000000/0 df=1707 of=8 ql=0/0 qs=N... b=10 ci=80132 nci=0 co=1328 ca=1458
62 3 c=31249 g=31250 cnq=1/1:0 dt=107255/140000000000000/0 df=1749 of=6 ql=0/450 qs=NRW. b=10 ci=151700 nci=0 co=509 ca=622
63 4!c=29502 g=29503 cnq=1/0:1 dt=83647/140000000000000/0 df=965 of=5 ql=0/0 qs=N... b=10 ci=65643 nci=0 co=1373 ca=1521
64 5 c=31201 g=31202 cnq=1/0:1 dt=70422/0/0 df=535 of=7 ql=0/0 qs=.... b=10 ci=58500 nci=0 co=764 ca=698
65 6!c=30253 g=30254 cnq=1/0:1 dt=95363/140000000000000/0 df=780 of=5 ql=0/0 qs=N... b=10 ci=100607 nci=0 co=1414 ca=1353
66 7 c=31178 g=31178 cnq=1/0:0 dt=91536/0/0 df=547 of=4 ql=0/0 qs=.... b=10 ci=109819 nci=0 co=1115 ca=969
67
68This file has one line per CPU, or eight for this 8-CPU system.
69The fields are as follows:
70
71o The number at the beginning of each line is the CPU number.
72 CPUs numbers followed by an exclamation mark are offline,
73 but have been online at least once since boot. There will be
74 no output for CPUs that have never been online, which can be
75 a good thing in the surprisingly common case where NR_CPUS is
76 substantially larger than the number of actual CPUs.
77
78o "c" is the count of grace periods that this CPU believes have
79 completed. Offlined CPUs and CPUs in dynticks idle mode may lag
80 quite a ways behind, for example, CPU 4 under "rcu_sched" above,
81 which has been offline through 16 RCU grace periods. It is not
82 unusual to see offline CPUs lagging by thousands of grace periods.
83 Note that although the grace-period number is an unsigned long,
84 it is printed out as a signed long to allow more human-friendly
85 representation near boot time.
86
87o "g" is the count of grace periods that this CPU believes have
88 started. Again, offlined CPUs and CPUs in dynticks idle mode
89 may lag behind. If the "c" and "g" values are equal, this CPU
90 has already reported a quiescent state for the last RCU grace
91 period that it is aware of, otherwise, the CPU believes that it
92 owes RCU a quiescent state.
93
94o "pq" indicates that this CPU has passed through a quiescent state
95 for the current grace period. It is possible for "pq" to be
96 "1" and "c" different than "g", which indicates that although
97 the CPU has passed through a quiescent state, either (1) this
98 CPU has not yet reported that fact, (2) some other CPU has not
99 yet reported for this grace period, or (3) both.
100
101o "qp" indicates that RCU still expects a quiescent state from
102 this CPU. Offlined CPUs and CPUs in dyntick idle mode might
103 well have qp=1, which is OK: RCU is still ignoring them.
104
105o "dt" is the current value of the dyntick counter that is incremented
106 when entering or leaving idle, either due to a context switch or
107 due to an interrupt. This number is even if the CPU is in idle
108 from RCU's viewpoint and odd otherwise. The number after the
109 first "/" is the interrupt nesting depth when in idle state,
110 or a large number added to the interrupt-nesting depth when
111 running a non-idle task. Some architectures do not accurately
112 count interrupt nesting when running in non-idle kernel context,
113 which can result in interesting anomalies such as negative
114 interrupt-nesting levels. The number after the second "/"
115 is the NMI nesting depth.
116
117o "df" is the number of times that some other CPU has forced a
118 quiescent state on behalf of this CPU due to this CPU being in
119 idle state.
120
121o "of" is the number of times that some other CPU has forced a
122 quiescent state on behalf of this CPU due to this CPU being
123 offline. In a perfect world, this might never happen, but it
124 turns out that offlining and onlining a CPU can take several grace
125 periods, and so there is likely to be an extended period of time
126 when RCU believes that the CPU is online when it really is not.
127 Please note that erring in the other direction (RCU believing a
128 CPU is offline when it is really alive and kicking) is a fatal
129 error, so it makes sense to err conservatively.
130
131o "ql" is the number of RCU callbacks currently residing on
132 this CPU. The first number is the number of "lazy" callbacks
133 that are known to RCU to only be freeing memory, and the number
134 after the "/" is the total number of callbacks, lazy or not.
135 These counters count callbacks regardless of what phase of
136 grace-period processing that they are in (new, waiting for
137 grace period to start, waiting for grace period to end, ready
138 to invoke).
139
140o "qs" gives an indication of the state of the callback queue
141 with four characters:
142
143 "N" Indicates that there are callbacks queued that are not
144 ready to be handled by the next grace period, and thus
145 will be handled by the grace period following the next
146 one.
147
148 "R" Indicates that there are callbacks queued that are
149 ready to be handled by the next grace period.
150
151 "W" Indicates that there are callbacks queued that are
152 waiting on the current grace period.
153
154 "D" Indicates that there are callbacks queued that have
155 already been handled by a prior grace period, and are
156 thus waiting to be invoked. Note that callbacks in
157 the process of being invoked are not counted here.
158 Callbacks in the process of being invoked are those
159 that have been removed from the rcu_data structures
160 queues by rcu_do_batch(), but which have not yet been
161 invoked.
162
163 If there are no callbacks in a given one of the above states,
164 the corresponding character is replaced by ".".
165
166o "b" is the batch limit for this CPU. If more than this number
167 of RCU callbacks is ready to invoke, then the remainder will
168 be deferred.
169
170o "ci" is the number of RCU callbacks that have been invoked for
171 this CPU. Note that ci+nci+ql is the number of callbacks that have
172 been registered in absence of CPU-hotplug activity.
173
174o "nci" is the number of RCU callbacks that have been offloaded from
175 this CPU. This will always be zero unless the kernel was built
176 with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y and the "rcu_nocbs=" kernel boot
177 parameter was specified.
178
179o "co" is the number of RCU callbacks that have been orphaned due to
180 this CPU going offline. These orphaned callbacks have been moved
181 to an arbitrarily chosen online CPU.
182
183o "ca" is the number of RCU callbacks that have been adopted by this
184 CPU due to other CPUs going offline. Note that ci+co-ca+ql is
185 the number of RCU callbacks registered on this CPU.
186
187
188Kernels compiled with CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y display the following from
189/debug/rcu/rcu_preempt/rcudata:
190
191 0!c=12865 g=12866 cnq=1/0:1 dt=83113/140000000000000/0 df=288 of=11 ql=0/0 qs=N... kt=0/O ktl=944 b=10 ci=60709 nci=0 co=748 ca=871
192 1 c=14407 g=14408 cnq=1/0:0 dt=100679/140000000000000/0 df=378 of=7 ql=0/119 qs=NRW. kt=0/W ktl=9b6 b=10 ci=109740 nci=0 co=589 ca=485
193 2 c=14407 g=14408 cnq=1/0:0 dt=105486/0/0 df=90 of=9 ql=0/89 qs=NRW. kt=0/W ktl=c0c b=10 ci=83113 nci=0 co=533 ca=490
194 3 c=14407 g=14408 cnq=1/0:0 dt=107138/0/0 df=142 of=8 ql=0/188 qs=NRW. kt=0/W ktl=b96 b=10 ci=121114 nci=0 co=426 ca=290
195 4 c=14405 g=14406 cnq=1/0:1 dt=50238/0/0 df=706 of=7 ql=0/0 qs=.... kt=0/W ktl=812 b=10 ci=34929 nci=0 co=643 ca=114
196 5!c=14168 g=14169 cnq=1/0:0 dt=45465/140000000000000/0 df=161 of=11 ql=0/0 qs=N... kt=0/O ktl=b4d b=10 ci=47712 nci=0 co=677 ca=722
197 6 c=14404 g=14405 cnq=1/0:0 dt=59454/0/0 df=94 of=6 ql=0/0 qs=.... kt=0/W ktl=e57 b=10 ci=55597 nci=0 co=701 ca=811
198 7 c=14407 g=14408 cnq=1/0:1 dt=68850/0/0 df=31 of=8 ql=0/0 qs=.... kt=0/W ktl=14bd b=10 ci=77475 nci=0 co=508 ca=1042
199
200This is similar to the output discussed above, but contains the following
201additional fields:
202
203o "kt" is the per-CPU kernel-thread state. The digit preceding
204 the first slash is zero if there is no work pending and 1
205 otherwise. The character between the first pair of slashes is
206 as follows:
207
208 "S" The kernel thread is stopped, in other words, all
209 CPUs corresponding to this rcu_node structure are
210 offline.
211
212 "R" The kernel thread is running.
213
214 "W" The kernel thread is waiting because there is no work
215 for it to do.
216
217 "O" The kernel thread is waiting because it has been
218 forced off of its designated CPU or because its
219 ->cpus_allowed mask permits it to run on other than
220 its designated CPU.
221
222 "Y" The kernel thread is yielding to avoid hogging CPU.
223
224 "?" Unknown value, indicates a bug.
225
226 The number after the final slash is the CPU that the kthread
227 is actually running on.
228
229 This field is displayed only for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST kernels.
230
231o "ktl" is the low-order 16 bits (in hexadecimal) of the count of
232 the number of times that this CPU's per-CPU kthread has gone
233 through its loop servicing invoke_rcu_cpu_kthread() requests.
234
235 This field is displayed only for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST kernels.
236
237
238The output of "cat rcu/rcu_preempt/rcuexp" looks as follows:
239
240s=21872 wd1=0 wd2=0 wd3=5 enq=0 sc=21872
241
242These fields are as follows:
243
244o "s" is the sequence number, with an odd number indicating that
245 an expedited grace period is in progress.
246
247o "wd1", "wd2", and "wd3" are the number of times that an attempt
248 to start an expedited grace period found that someone else had
249 completed an expedited grace period that satisfies the attempted
250 request. "Our work is done."
251
252o "enq" is the number of quiescent states still outstanding.
253
254o "sc" is the number of times that the attempt to start a
255 new expedited grace period succeeded.
256
257
258The output of "cat rcu/rcu_preempt/rcugp" looks as follows:
259
260completed=31249 gpnum=31250 age=1 max=18
261
262These fields are taken from the rcu_state structure, and are as follows:
263
264o "completed" is the number of grace periods that have completed.
265 It is comparable to the "c" field from rcu/rcudata in that a
266 CPU whose "c" field matches the value of "completed" is aware
267 that the corresponding RCU grace period has completed.
268
269o "gpnum" is the number of grace periods that have started. It is
270 similarly comparable to the "g" field from rcu/rcudata in that
271 a CPU whose "g" field matches the value of "gpnum" is aware that
272 the corresponding RCU grace period has started.
273
274 If these two fields are equal, then there is no grace period
275 in progress, in other words, RCU is idle. On the other hand,
276 if the two fields differ (as they are above), then an RCU grace
277 period is in progress.
278
279o "age" is the number of jiffies that the current grace period
280 has extended for, or zero if there is no grace period currently
281 in effect.
282
283o "max" is the age in jiffies of the longest-duration grace period
284 thus far.
285
286The output of "cat rcu/rcu_preempt/rcuhier" looks as follows:
287
288c=14407 g=14408 s=0 jfq=2 j=c863 nfqs=12040/nfqsng=0(12040) fqlh=1051 oqlen=0/0
2893/3 ..>. 0:7 ^0
290e/e ..>. 0:3 ^0 d/d ..>. 4:7 ^1
291
292The fields are as follows:
293
294o "c" is exactly the same as "completed" under rcu/rcu_preempt/rcugp.
295
296o "g" is exactly the same as "gpnum" under rcu/rcu_preempt/rcugp.
297
298o "s" is the current state of the force_quiescent_state()
299 state machine.
300
301o "jfq" is the number of jiffies remaining for this grace period
302 before force_quiescent_state() is invoked to help push things
303 along. Note that CPUs in idle mode throughout the grace period
304 will not report on their own, but rather must be check by some
305 other CPU via force_quiescent_state().
306
307o "j" is the low-order four hex digits of the jiffies counter.
308 Yes, Paul did run into a number of problems that turned out to
309 be due to the jiffies counter no longer counting. Why do you ask?
310
311o "nfqs" is the number of calls to force_quiescent_state() since
312 boot.
313
314o "nfqsng" is the number of useless calls to force_quiescent_state(),
315 where there wasn't actually a grace period active. This can
316 no longer happen due to grace-period processing being pushed
317 into a kthread. The number in parentheses is the difference
318 between "nfqs" and "nfqsng", or the number of times that
319 force_quiescent_state() actually did some real work.
320
321o "fqlh" is the number of calls to force_quiescent_state() that
322 exited immediately (without even being counted in nfqs above)
323 due to contention on ->fqslock.
324
325o Each element of the form "3/3 ..>. 0:7 ^0" represents one rcu_node
326 structure. Each line represents one level of the hierarchy,
327 from root to leaves. It is best to think of the rcu_data
328 structures as forming yet another level after the leaves.
329 Note that there might be either one, two, three, or even four
330 levels of rcu_node structures, depending on the relationship
331 between CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF (possibly
332 adjusted using the rcu_fanout_leaf kernel boot parameter), and
333 CONFIG_NR_CPUS (possibly adjusted using the nr_cpu_ids count of
334 possible CPUs for the booting hardware).
335
336 o The numbers separated by the "/" are the qsmask followed
337 by the qsmaskinit. The qsmask will have one bit
338 set for each entity in the next lower level that has
339 not yet checked in for the current grace period ("e"
340 indicating CPUs 5, 6, and 7 in the example above).
341 The qsmaskinit will have one bit for each entity that is
342 currently expected to check in during each grace period.
343 The value of qsmaskinit is assigned to that of qsmask
344 at the beginning of each grace period.
345
346 o The characters separated by the ">" indicate the state
347 of the blocked-tasks lists. A "G" preceding the ">"
348 indicates that at least one task blocked in an RCU
349 read-side critical section blocks the current grace
350 period, while a "E" preceding the ">" indicates that
351 at least one task blocked in an RCU read-side critical
352 section blocks the current expedited grace period.
353 A "T" character following the ">" indicates that at
354 least one task is blocked within an RCU read-side
355 critical section, regardless of whether any current
356 grace period (expedited or normal) is inconvenienced.
357 A "." character appears if the corresponding condition
358 does not hold, so that "..>." indicates that no tasks
359 are blocked. In contrast, "GE>T" indicates maximal
360 inconvenience from blocked tasks. CONFIG_TREE_RCU
361 builds of the kernel will always show "..>.".
362
363 o The numbers separated by the ":" are the range of CPUs
364 served by this struct rcu_node. This can be helpful
365 in working out how the hierarchy is wired together.
366
367 For example, the example rcu_node structure shown above
368 has "0:7", indicating that it covers CPUs 0 through 7.
369
370 o The number after the "^" indicates the bit in the
371 next higher level rcu_node structure that this rcu_node
372 structure corresponds to. For example, the "d/d ..>. 4:7
373 ^1" has a "1" in this position, indicating that it
374 corresponds to the "1" bit in the "3" shown in the
375 "3/3 ..>. 0:7 ^0" entry on the next level up.
376
377
378The output of "cat rcu/rcu_sched/rcu_pending" looks as follows:
379
380 0!np=26111 qsp=29 rpq=5386 cbr=1 cng=570 gpc=3674 gps=577 nn=15903 ndw=0
381 1!np=28913 qsp=35 rpq=6097 cbr=1 cng=448 gpc=3700 gps=554 nn=18113 ndw=0
382 2!np=32740 qsp=37 rpq=6202 cbr=0 cng=476 gpc=4627 gps=546 nn=20889 ndw=0
383 3 np=23679 qsp=22 rpq=5044 cbr=1 cng=415 gpc=3403 gps=347 nn=14469 ndw=0
384 4!np=30714 qsp=4 rpq=5574 cbr=0 cng=528 gpc=3931 gps=639 nn=20042 ndw=0
385 5 np=28910 qsp=2 rpq=5246 cbr=0 cng=428 gpc=4105 gps=709 nn=18422 ndw=0
386 6!np=38648 qsp=5 rpq=7076 cbr=0 cng=840 gpc=4072 gps=961 nn=25699 ndw=0
387 7 np=37275 qsp=2 rpq=6873 cbr=0 cng=868 gpc=3416 gps=971 nn=25147 ndw=0
388
389The fields are as follows:
390
391o The leading number is the CPU number, with "!" indicating
392 an offline CPU.
393
394o "np" is the number of times that __rcu_pending() has been invoked
395 for the corresponding flavor of RCU.
396
397o "qsp" is the number of times that the RCU was waiting for a
398 quiescent state from this CPU.
399
400o "rpq" is the number of times that the CPU had passed through
401 a quiescent state, but not yet reported it to RCU.
402
403o "cbr" is the number of times that this CPU had RCU callbacks
404 that had passed through a grace period, and were thus ready
405 to be invoked.
406
407o "cng" is the number of times that this CPU needed another
408 grace period while RCU was idle.
409
410o "gpc" is the number of times that an old grace period had
411 completed, but this CPU was not yet aware of it.
412
413o "gps" is the number of times that a new grace period had started,
414 but this CPU was not yet aware of it.
415
416o "ndw" is the number of times that a wakeup of an rcuo
417 callback-offload kthread had to be deferred in order to avoid
418 deadlock.
419
420o "nn" is the number of times that this CPU needed nothing.
421
422
423The output of "cat rcu/rcuboost" looks as follows:
424
4250:3 tasks=.... kt=W ntb=0 neb=0 nnb=0 j=c864 bt=c894
426 balk: nt=0 egt=4695 bt=0 nb=0 ny=56 nos=0
4274:7 tasks=.... kt=W ntb=0 neb=0 nnb=0 j=c864 bt=c894
428 balk: nt=0 egt=6541 bt=0 nb=0 ny=126 nos=0
429
430This information is output only for rcu_preempt. Each two-line entry
431corresponds to a leaf rcu_node structure. The fields are as follows:
432
433o "n:m" is the CPU-number range for the corresponding two-line
434 entry. In the sample output above, the first entry covers
435 CPUs zero through three and the second entry covers CPUs four
436 through seven.
437
438o "tasks=TNEB" gives the state of the various segments of the
439 rnp->blocked_tasks list:
440
441 "T" This indicates that there are some tasks that blocked
442 while running on one of the corresponding CPUs while
443 in an RCU read-side critical section.
444
445 "N" This indicates that some of the blocked tasks are preventing
446 the current normal (non-expedited) grace period from
447 completing.
448
449 "E" This indicates that some of the blocked tasks are preventing
450 the current expedited grace period from completing.
451
452 "B" This indicates that some of the blocked tasks are in
453 need of RCU priority boosting.
454
455 Each character is replaced with "." if the corresponding
456 condition does not hold.
457
458o "kt" is the state of the RCU priority-boosting kernel
459 thread associated with the corresponding rcu_node structure.
460 The state can be one of the following:
461
462 "S" The kernel thread is stopped, in other words, all
463 CPUs corresponding to this rcu_node structure are
464 offline.
465
466 "R" The kernel thread is running.
467
468 "W" The kernel thread is waiting because there is no work
469 for it to do.
470
471 "Y" The kernel thread is yielding to avoid hogging CPU.
472
473 "?" Unknown value, indicates a bug.
474
475o "ntb" is the number of tasks boosted.
476
477o "neb" is the number of tasks boosted in order to complete an
478 expedited grace period.
479
480o "nnb" is the number of tasks boosted in order to complete a
481 normal (non-expedited) grace period. When boosting a task
482 that was blocking both an expedited and a normal grace period,
483 it is counted against the expedited total above.
484
485o "j" is the low-order 16 bits of the jiffies counter in
486 hexadecimal.
487
488o "bt" is the low-order 16 bits of the value that the jiffies
489 counter will have when we next start boosting, assuming that
490 the current grace period does not end beforehand. This is
491 also in hexadecimal.
492
493o "balk: nt" counts the number of times we didn't boost (in
494 other words, we balked) even though it was time to boost because
495 there were no blocked tasks to boost. This situation occurs
496 when there is one blocked task on one rcu_node structure and
497 none on some other rcu_node structure.
498
499o "egt" counts the number of times we balked because although
500 there were blocked tasks, none of them were blocking the
501 current grace period, whether expedited or otherwise.
502
503o "bt" counts the number of times we balked because boosting
504 had already been initiated for the current grace period.
505
506o "nb" counts the number of times we balked because there
507 was at least one task blocking the current non-expedited grace
508 period that never had blocked. If it is already running, it
509 just won't help to boost its priority!
510
511o "ny" counts the number of times we balked because it was
512 not yet time to start boosting.
513
514o "nos" counts the number of times we balked for other
515 reasons, e.g., the grace period ended first.
516
517
518CONFIG_TINY_RCU debugfs Files and Formats
519
520These implementations of RCU provides a single debugfs file under the
521top-level directory RCU, namely rcu/rcudata, which displays fields in
522rcu_bh_ctrlblk and rcu_sched_ctrlblk.
523
524The output of "cat rcu/rcudata" is as follows:
525
526rcu_sched: qlen: 0
527rcu_bh: qlen: 0
528
529This is split into rcu_sched and rcu_bh sections. The field is as
530follows:
531
532o "qlen" is the number of RCU callbacks currently waiting either
533 for an RCU grace period or waiting to be invoked. This is the
534 only field present for rcu_sched and rcu_bh, due to the
535 short-circuiting of grace period in those two cases.