[tip:core/rcu] documentation: Describe new expedited stall warnings

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Commit-ID:  99a930b0d2b018f31474d69137f311ce3581a4c2
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/99a930b0d2b018f31474d69137f311ce3581a4c2
Author:     Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:54:09 -0700
Committer:  Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 14:59:03 -0700

documentation: Describe new expedited stall warnings

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
index 046f326..efb9454 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
@@ -163,6 +163,23 @@ message will be about three times the interval between the beginning
 of the stall and the first message.
 
 
+Stall Warnings for Expedited Grace Periods
+
+If an expedited grace period detects a stall, it will place a message
+like the following in dmesg:
+
+	INFO: rcu_sched detected expedited stalls on CPUs: { 1 2 6 } 26009 jiffies s: 1043
+
+This indicates that CPUs 1, 2, and 6 have failed to respond to a
+reschedule IPI, that the expedited grace period has been going on for
+26,009 jiffies, and that the expedited grace-period sequence counter is
+1043.  The fact that this last value is odd indicates that an expedited
+grace period is in flight.
+
+It is entirely possible to see stall warnings from normal and from
+expedited grace periods at about the same time from the same run.
+
+
 What Causes RCU CPU Stall Warnings?
 
 So your kernel printed an RCU CPU stall warning.  The next question is
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