From 63c4db78e80407976e47bccaa2a4d8251b5a10bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 12:19:29 -0700 Subject: rcu: Add tracing to rcu_gp_kthread() This commit adds tracing to the rcu_gp_kthread() function in order to help trace down hangs potentially involving this kthread. Reported-by: Clark Williams Reported-by: Carsten Emde Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- include/trace/events/rcu.h | 28 +++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/trace/events/rcu.h') diff --git a/include/trace/events/rcu.h b/include/trace/events/rcu.h index ee2376cfaab3..60077e12093c 100644 --- a/include/trace/events/rcu.h +++ b/include/trace/events/rcu.h @@ -39,15 +39,25 @@ TRACE_EVENT(rcu_utilization, #if defined(CONFIG_TREE_RCU) || defined(CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) /* - * Tracepoint for grace-period events: starting and ending a grace - * period ("start" and "end", respectively), a CPU noting the start - * of a new grace period or the end of an old grace period ("cpustart" - * and "cpuend", respectively), a CPU passing through a quiescent - * state ("cpuqs"), a CPU coming online or going offline ("cpuonl" - * and "cpuofl", respectively), a CPU being kicked for being too - * long in dyntick-idle mode ("kick"), a CPU accelerating its new - * callbacks to RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL ("AccReadyCB"), and a CPU - * accelerating its new callbacks to RCU_WAIT_TAIL ("AccWaitCB"). + * Tracepoint for grace-period events. Takes a string identifying the + * RCU flavor, the grace-period number, and a string identifying the + * grace-period-related event as follows: + * + * "AccReadyCB": CPU acclerates new callbacks to RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL. + * "AccWaitCB": CPU accelerates new callbacks to RCU_WAIT_TAIL. + * "start": Start a grace period. + * "cpustart": CPU first notices a grace-period start. + * "cpuqs": CPU passes through a quiescent state. + * "cpuonl": CPU comes online. + * "cpuofl": CPU goes offline. + * "reqwait": GP kthread sleeps waiting for grace-period request. + * "reqwaitsig": GP kthread awakened by signal from reqwait state. + * "fqswait": GP kthread waiting until time to force quiescent states. + * "fqsstart": GP kthread starts forcing quiescent states. + * "fqsend": GP kthread done forcing quiescent states. + * "fqswaitsig": GP kthread awakened by signal from fqswait state. + * "end": End a grace period. + * "cpuend": CPU first notices a grace-period end. */ TRACE_EVENT(rcu_grace_period, -- cgit v1.2.3