rcu: Add forward-progress diagnostic for per-CPU kthreads
Increment a per-CPU counter on each pass through rcu_cpu_kthread()'s
service loop, and add it to the rcudata trace output.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 27b6d8d..575d641 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, rcu_cpu_kthread_task);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, rcu_cpu_kthread_status);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, rcu_cpu_kthread_cpu);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, rcu_cpu_kthread_loops);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(wait_queue_head_t, rcu_cpu_wq);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(char, rcu_cpu_has_work);
static char rcu_kthreads_spawnable;
@@ -1625,6 +1626,7 @@
break;
}
*statusp = RCU_KTHREAD_RUNNING;
+ per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_loops, cpu)++;
local_irq_save(flags);
work = *workp;
*workp = 0;