[PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/20] rcu: Only dump stalled-tasks stacks if there was a real stall

Paul E. McKenney
2017-01-14T09:15:46Z

From: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>

The print_other_cpu_stall() function currently unconditionally invokes
rcu_print_detail_task_stall(). This is OK because if there was a stall
sufficient to cause print_other_cpu_stall() to be invoked, that stall
is very likely to persist through the entire print_other_cpu_stall()
execution. However, if the stall did not persist, the variable ndetected
will be zero, and that variable is already tested in an "if" statement.
Therefore, this commit moves the call to rcu_print_detail_task_stall()
under that pre-existing "if" to improve readability, with a very rare
reduction in overhead.

Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
[ paulmck: Reworked commit log. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
kernel/rcu/tree.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index cb4e2056ccf3..6232d2f9a84e 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1379,6 +1379,9 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long gpnum)
(long)rsp->gpnum, (long)rsp->completed, totqlen);
if (ndetected) {
rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(rsp);
+
+ /* Complain about tasks blocking the grace period. */
+ rcu_print_detail_task_stall(rsp);
} else {
if (READ_ONCE(rsp->gpnum) != gpnum ||
READ_ONCE(rsp->completed) == gpnum) {
@@ -1395,9 +1398,6 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long gpnum)
}
}

- /* Complain about tasks blocking the grace period. */
- rcu_print_detail_task_stall(rsp);
-
rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(rsp);

panic_on_rcu_stall();
--
2.5.2