* [PATCH v2 0/3] rcu: Improve task-state reporting readability
@ 2026-06-12 2:34 Kunwu Chan
2026-06-12 2:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] rcu: Use task_state_to_char() in stall-warning prints Kunwu Chan
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From: Kunwu Chan @ 2026-06-12 2:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: paulmck, frederic, neeraj.upadhyay, joelagnelf, josh, boqun,
urezki, rostedt, mathieu.desnoyers, jiangshanlai, qiang.zhang,
dave
Cc: rcu, linux-kernel, Kunwu Chan
From: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
This series replaces raw hexadecimal task-state values with
task_state_to_char() output in RCU-related diagnostic messages.
---
Changes in v2:
- Split the original patch into three commits, one per file.
- No code changes.
v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/442e80e0-4f91-421c-ab68-d26e0a031472@paulmck-laptop/
Based on: linux-rcu repo (dev branch)
URL: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git
base-commit: 85bf11e84 ("smp: Make CSD lock acquisition atomic for debug mode")
Kunwu Chan (3):
rcu: Use task_state_to_char() in stall-warning prints
rcutorture: Use task_state_to_char() for task-state reporting
hazptrtorture: Use task_state_to_char() for task-state reporting
kernel/rcu/hazptrtorture.c | 4 ++--
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 4 ++--
kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 12 ++++++------
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--
2.43.0
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* [PATCH v2 1/3] rcu: Use task_state_to_char() in stall-warning prints
2026-06-12 2:34 [PATCH v2 0/3] rcu: Improve task-state reporting readability Kunwu Chan
@ 2026-06-12 2:34 ` Kunwu Chan
2026-06-12 2:34 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] rcutorture: Use task_state_to_char() for task-state reporting Kunwu Chan
2026-06-12 2:34 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] hazptrtorture: " Kunwu Chan
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From: Kunwu Chan @ 2026-06-12 2:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: paulmck, frederic, neeraj.upadhyay, joelagnelf, josh, boqun,
urezki, rostedt, mathieu.desnoyers, jiangshanlai, qiang.zhang,
dave
Cc: rcu, linux-kernel, Kunwu Chan, Wang Lian
From: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
RCU stall warnings currently print task states as raw hexadecimal
values, requiring developers to manually decode them.
Use task_state_to_char() so that stall warnings show the same symbolic
task-state representation used elsewhere in the kernel.
For example:
->state=0x402 becomes ->state=I
->state=0x0 becomes ->state=R
->state=0x2 becomes ->state=D
This improves readability while preserving the underlying diagnostic
information.
Suggested-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Co-developed-by: Wang Lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang Lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
---
kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
index 317ef91b1..7ca434b08 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
@@ -596,13 +596,13 @@ static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(void)
if (rcu_is_gp_kthread_starving(&j)) {
cpu = gpk ? task_cpu(gpk) : -1;
- pr_err("%s kthread starved for %ld jiffies! g%ld f%#x %s(%d) ->state=%#x ->cpu=%d\n",
+ pr_err("%s kthread starved for %ld jiffies! g%ld f%#x %s(%d) ->state=%c ->cpu=%d\n",
rcu_state.name, j,
(long)rcu_seq_current(&rcu_state.gp_seq),
data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_flags)),
gp_state_getname(rcu_state.gp_state),
data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state)),
- gpk ? data_race(READ_ONCE(gpk->__state)) : ~0, cpu);
+ gpk ? task_state_to_char(gpk) : '?', cpu);
if (gpk) {
struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data, cpu);
@@ -639,12 +639,12 @@ static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_expired_fqs_timer(void)
time_after(jiffies, jiffies_fqs + RCU_STALL_MIGHT_MIN) &&
gpk && !READ_ONCE(gpk->on_rq)) {
cpu = task_cpu(gpk);
- pr_err("%s kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for %ld jiffies! g%ld f%#x %s(%d) ->state=%#x\n",
+ pr_err("%s kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for %ld jiffies! g%ld f%#x %s(%d) ->state=%c\n",
rcu_state.name, (jiffies - jiffies_fqs),
(long)rcu_seq_current(&rcu_state.gp_seq),
data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_flags)), // Diagnostic read
gp_state_getname(RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS), RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS,
- data_race(READ_ONCE(gpk->__state)));
+ task_state_to_char(gpk));
pr_err("\tPossible timer handling issue on cpu=%d timer-softirq=%u\n",
cpu, kstat_softirqs_cpu(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, cpu));
}
@@ -971,10 +971,10 @@ void show_rcu_gp_kthreads(void)
jr = j - data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_req_activity));
js = j - data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_start));
jw = j - data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_wake_time));
- pr_info("%s: wait state: %s(%d) ->state: %#x ->rt_priority %u delta ->gp_start %lu ->gp_activity %lu ->gp_req_activity %lu ->gp_wake_time %lu ->gp_wake_seq %ld ->gp_seq %ld ->gp_seq_needed %ld ->gp_max %lu ->gp_flags %#x\n",
+ pr_info("%s: wait state: %s(%d) ->state: %c ->rt_priority %u delta ->gp_start %lu ->gp_activity %lu ->gp_req_activity %lu ->gp_wake_time %lu ->gp_wake_seq %ld ->gp_seq %ld ->gp_seq_needed %ld ->gp_max %lu ->gp_flags %#x\n",
rcu_state.name, gp_state_getname(rcu_state.gp_state),
data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state)),
- t ? data_race(READ_ONCE(t->__state)) : 0x1ffff, t ? t->rt_priority : 0xffU,
+ t ? task_state_to_char(t) : '?', t ? t->rt_priority : 0xffU,
js, ja, jr, jw, (long)data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_wake_seq)),
(long)data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_seq)),
(long)data_race(READ_ONCE(rcu_get_root()->gp_seq_needed)),
--
2.43.0
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* [PATCH v2 2/3] rcutorture: Use task_state_to_char() for task-state reporting
2026-06-12 2:34 [PATCH v2 0/3] rcu: Improve task-state reporting readability Kunwu Chan
2026-06-12 2:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] rcu: Use task_state_to_char() in stall-warning prints Kunwu Chan
@ 2026-06-12 2:34 ` Kunwu Chan
2026-06-12 2:34 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] hazptrtorture: " Kunwu Chan
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kunwu Chan @ 2026-06-12 2:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: paulmck, frederic, neeraj.upadhyay, joelagnelf, josh, boqun,
urezki, rostedt, mathieu.desnoyers, jiangshanlai, qiang.zhang,
dave
Cc: rcu, linux-kernel, Kunwu Chan, Wang Lian
From: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
Use the kernel's standard symbolic task-state representation instead of
printing raw hexadecimal task-state values.
Suggested-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Co-developed-by: Wang Lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang Lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
---
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index fcb421ced..4d4ebeeea 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -3074,10 +3074,10 @@ rcu_torture_stats_print(void)
if (cur_ops->get_gp_data)
cur_ops->get_gp_data(&flags, &gp_seq);
wtp = READ_ONCE(writer_task);
- pr_alert("??? Writer stall state %s(%d) g%lu f%#x ->state %#x cpu %d\n",
+ pr_alert("??? Writer stall state %s(%d) g%lu f%#x ->state %c cpu %d\n",
rcu_torture_writer_state_getname(),
rcu_torture_writer_state, gp_seq, flags,
- wtp == NULL ? ~0U : wtp->__state,
+ wtp == NULL ? '?' : task_state_to_char(wtp),
wtp == NULL ? -1 : (int)task_cpu(wtp));
if (!splatted && wtp) {
sched_show_task(wtp);
--
2.43.0
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* [PATCH v2 3/3] hazptrtorture: Use task_state_to_char() for task-state reporting
2026-06-12 2:34 [PATCH v2 0/3] rcu: Improve task-state reporting readability Kunwu Chan
2026-06-12 2:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] rcu: Use task_state_to_char() in stall-warning prints Kunwu Chan
2026-06-12 2:34 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] rcutorture: Use task_state_to_char() for task-state reporting Kunwu Chan
@ 2026-06-12 2:34 ` Kunwu Chan
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kunwu Chan @ 2026-06-12 2:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: paulmck, frederic, neeraj.upadhyay, joelagnelf, josh, boqun,
urezki, rostedt, mathieu.desnoyers, jiangshanlai, qiang.zhang,
dave
Cc: rcu, linux-kernel, Kunwu Chan, Wang Lian
From: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
Use the kernel's standard symbolic task-state representation instead of
printing raw hexadecimal task-state values.
Suggested-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Co-developed-by: Wang Lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang Lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
---
kernel/rcu/hazptrtorture.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/hazptrtorture.c b/kernel/rcu/hazptrtorture.c
index 0da0a4606..19ea479c9 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/hazptrtorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/hazptrtorture.c
@@ -497,10 +497,10 @@ hazptr_torture_stats_print(void)
unsigned long __maybe_unused gp_seq = 0;
wtp = READ_ONCE(writer_task);
- pr_alert("??? Writer stall state %s(%d) g%lu f%#x ->state %#x cpu %d\n",
+ pr_alert("??? Writer stall state %s(%d) g%lu f%#x ->state %c cpu %d\n",
hazptr_torture_writer_state_getname(),
hazptr_torture_writer_state, gp_seq, flags,
- wtp == NULL ? ~0U : wtp->__state,
+ wtp == NULL ? '?' : task_state_to_char(wtp),
wtp == NULL ? -1 : (int)task_cpu(wtp));
if (!splatted && wtp) {
sched_show_task(wtp);
--
2.43.0
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