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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst index 7148e9be08c3..1cc944aec46f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ warnings: - Booting Linux using a console connection that is too slow to keep up with the boot-time console-message rate. For example, - a 115Kbaud serial console can be -way- too slow to keep up + a 115Kbaud serial console can be *way* too slow to keep up with boot-time message rates, and will frequently result in RCU CPU stall warning messages. Especially if you have added debug printk()s. @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ warnings: leading the realization that the CPU had failed. The RCU, RCU-sched, and RCU-tasks implementations have CPU stall warning. -Note that SRCU does -not- have CPU stall warnings. Please note that +Note that SRCU does *not* have CPU stall warnings. Please note that RCU only detects CPU stalls when there is a grace period in progress. No grace period, no CPU stall warnings. @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT this parameter is checked only at the beginning of a cycle. So if you are 10 seconds into a 40-second stall, setting this sysfs parameter to (say) five will shorten the timeout for the - -next- stall, or the following warning for the current stall + *next* stall, or the following warning for the current stall (assuming the stall lasts long enough). It will not affect the timing of the next warning for the current stall. @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ causing stalls, and that the stall was affecting RCU-sched. This message will normally be followed by stack dumps for each CPU. Please note that PREEMPT_RCU builds can be stalled by tasks as well as by CPUs, and that the tasks will be indicated by PID, for example, "P3421". It is even -possible for an rcu_state stall to be caused by both CPUs -and- tasks, +possible for an rcu_state stall to be caused by both CPUs *and* tasks, in which case the offending CPUs and tasks will all be called out in the list. CPU 2's "(3 GPs behind)" indicates that this CPU has not interacted with |