rcu: Dump ftrace buffer when kicking grace-period kthread
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:54:28 +0000 (11:54 -0800)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 20:36:37 +0000 (13:36 -0700)
If it is necessary to kick the grace-period kthread, that is a good
time to dump the trace buffer in order to learn why kicking was needed.
This commit therefore does the dump.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
kernel/rcu/tree.c

index a739292..86edb92 100644 (file)
@@ -1266,6 +1266,7 @@ static void rcu_stall_kick_kthreads(struct rcu_state *rsp)
        j = READ_ONCE(rsp->jiffies_kick_kthreads);
        if (time_after(jiffies, j) && rsp->gp_kthread) {
                WARN_ONCE(1, "Kicking %s grace-period kthread\n", rsp->name);
+               rcu_ftrace_dump(DUMP_ALL);
                wake_up_process(rsp->gp_kthread);
                WRITE_ONCE(rsp->jiffies_kick_kthreads, j + HZ);
        }