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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 08:17:12 -0800
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 09:16:31AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 05:46:08 -0800
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > I suggest enabling tracing for timers with a goal of working out why
> > the rcu_sched task is not being awakened regularly -- during a grace
> > period, it should be awakened every three jiffies or so (depending on
> > the value of HZ).
> 
> Perhaps enable events for rcu, sched and irqs as well?

Good point -- but you will need to build with CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y
to get most of the RCU events.

							Thanx, Paul