rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU

This patch adds stalled-CPU detection to Classic RCU.  This capability
is enabled by a new config variable CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR, which
defaults disabled.

This is a debugging feature to detect infinite loops in kernel code, not
something that non-kernel-hackers would be expected to care about.

This feature can detect looping CPUs in !PREEMPT builds and looping CPUs
with preemption disabled in PREEMPT builds.  This is essentially a port of
this functionality from the treercu patch, replacing the stall debug patch
that is already in tip/core/rcu (commit 67182ae1c4).

The changes from the patch in tip/core/rcu include making the config
variable name match that in treercu, changing from seconds to jiffies to
avoid spurious warnings, and printing a boot message when this feature
is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index ccede1aeab38..9fee969dd60e 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ config RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE
           Say N here if you want the RCU torture tests to start only
           after being manually enabled via /proc.
 
-config RCU_CPU_STALL
+config RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
         bool "Check for stalled CPUs delaying RCU grace periods"
         depends on CLASSIC_RCU
         default n