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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-11-03 13:43:24 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-12-11 10:31:41 -0800
commit9ceae0e248fb553c702d51d5275167d462f4efd2 (patch)
treef7ac3ac7d70cea2bf1db11b4065a357d9dca9d30 /Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
parent0c53dd8b31404c1d7fd15be8f065ebaec615a562 (diff)
rcu: Add documentation for raw SRCU read-side primitives
Update various files in Documentation/RCU to reflect srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw(). Credit to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting use of the existing _raw suffix instead of the earlier bulkref names. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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@@ -114,12 +114,11 @@ o A hardware failure. This is quite unlikely, but has occurred
This resulted in a series of RCU CPU stall warnings, eventually
leading the realization that the CPU had failed.
-The RCU, RCU-sched, and RCU-bh implementations have CPU stall
-warning. SRCU does not have its own CPU stall warnings, but its
-calls to synchronize_sched() will result in RCU-sched detecting
-RCU-sched-related CPU stalls. Please note that RCU only detects
-CPU stalls when there is a grace period in progress. No grace period,
-no CPU stall warnings.
+The RCU, RCU-sched, and RCU-bh implementations have CPU stall warning.
+SRCU does not have its own CPU stall warnings, but its calls to
+synchronize_sched() will result in RCU-sched detecting RCU-sched-related
+CPU stalls. Please note that RCU only detects CPU stalls when there is
+a grace period in progress. No grace period, no CPU stall warnings.
To diagnose the cause of the stall, inspect the stack traces.
The offending function will usually be near the top of the stack.