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authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>2011-04-06 19:01:16 -0400
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-05-06 02:16:56 -0400
commit15ba0ba860871cf74b48b1bb47c26c91a66126f3 (patch)
tree2043eeca7d6df62fc0ae918b61abada073f81415 /Documentation/RCU
parenta9f4793d8900dc5dc09b3951bdcd4731290e06fe (diff)
rcu: add grace-period age and more kthread state to tracing
This commit adds the age in jiffies of the current grace period along with the duration in jiffies of the longest grace period since boot to the rcu/rcugp debugfs file. It also adds an additional "O" state to kthread tracing to differentiate between the kthread waiting due to having nothing to do on the one hand and waiting due to being on the wrong CPU on the other hand. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/trace.txt12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
index 40b530dd0fc7..fd4bffb6e8c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
@@ -159,8 +159,8 @@ o "qs" gives an indication of the state of the callback queue
159 the corresponding character is replaced by ".". 159 the corresponding character is replaced by ".".
160 160
161o "kt" is the per-CPU kernel-thread state. The digit preceding 161o "kt" is the per-CPU kernel-thread state. The digit preceding
162 the slash is zero if there is no work pending and 1 otherwise. 162 the first slash is zero if there is no work pending and 1
163 The character after the slash is as follows: 163 otherwise. The character between the slashes is as follows:
164 164
165 "S" The kernel thread is stopped, in other words, all 165 "S" The kernel thread is stopped, in other words, all
166 CPUs corresponding to this rcu_node structure are 166 CPUs corresponding to this rcu_node structure are
@@ -171,10 +171,18 @@ o "kt" is the per-CPU kernel-thread state. The digit preceding
171 "W" The kernel thread is waiting because there is no work 171 "W" The kernel thread is waiting because there is no work
172 for it to do. 172 for it to do.
173 173
174 "O" The kernel thread is waiting because it has been
175 forced off of its designated CPU or because its
176 ->cpus_allowed mask permits it to run on other than
177 its designated CPU.
178
174 "Y" The kernel thread is yielding to avoid hogging CPU. 179 "Y" The kernel thread is yielding to avoid hogging CPU.
175 180
176 "?" Unknown value, indicates a bug. 181 "?" Unknown value, indicates a bug.
177 182
183 The number after the final slash is the CPU that the kthread
184 is actually running on.
185
178o "b" is the batch limit for this CPU. If more than this number 186o "b" is the batch limit for this CPU. If more than this number
179 of RCU callbacks is ready to invoke, then the remainder will 187 of RCU callbacks is ready to invoke, then the remainder will
180 be deferred. 188 be deferred.