[ltt-dev] [PATCH tip/master] RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:39:47AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > 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 at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> applied to tip/core/rcu, thanks Paul!
> 
> i tidied up two tiny details noticed by scripts/checkpatch.pl:
> 
> > +#define RCU_SECONDS_TILL_STALL_CHECK	3 * HZ	/* for rcp->jiffies_stall */
> > +#define RCU_SECONDS_TILL_STALL_RECHECK	30 * HZ	/* for rcp->jiffies_stall */
> 
> adding paranthesis around the expression.
> 
> > +	if (cpu_isset(smp_processor_id(), rcp->cpumask) && delta >= 0) {
> > +		
> 
> and have removed the two tailing tabs from this line.

<red face>  checkpatch.pl...  I have heard of it!  :-)

							Thanx, Paul