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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2020-11-06 13:52:31 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2021-01-04 13:54:40 -0800
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rcu: Mark obtuse portion of stall warning as internal debug
There is a rather obtuse string that can be printed as part of an expedited RCU CPU stall-warning message that starts with "blocking rcu_node structures". Under normal conditions, most of this message is just repeating the list of CPUs blocking the current expedited grace period, but in a manner that is rather difficult to read. This commit therefore marks this message as "(internal RCU debug)" in an effort to give people the option of avoiding wasting time attempting to extract nonexistent additional meaning from this portion of the message. Reported-by: Jonathan Lemon <bsd@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h
index 8760b6ead770..6c6ff06d4ae6 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ static void synchronize_rcu_expedited_wait(void)
data_race(rnp_root->expmask),
".T"[!!data_race(rnp_root->exp_tasks)]);
if (ndetected) {
- pr_err("blocking rcu_node structures:");
+ pr_err("blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):");
rcu_for_each_node_breadth_first(rnp) {
if (rnp == rnp_root)
continue; /* printed unconditionally */