> From: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 12:32 PM
> To: paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx; frederic@xxxxxxxxxx; joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: rcu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH] rcu-tasks: Allow RCU-Task trace stall warning dump late IPI
> CPU stacks
>
> The task structure's->trc_ipi_to_cpu and percpu trc_ipi_to_cpu is used to
> record whether the IPI is completed, if the percpu trc_ipi_to_cpu is true and
> task structure's->trc_ipi_to_cpu is non-negative value, indicates that IPI is not
> completed, if the IPI is unresponsive for along time for some reason, there
> will be a possibility of causing RCU-Tasks trace stall. this commit therefore
> allow dump late IPI CPU stacks to show the path that current CPU is executing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> In the real world, the IPI delay will be very small, so the probability of
> triggering dump_cpu_stack() may be very low, so if I makes noise, please
> ignore it.
>
> kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h index
> baf7ec178155..85237fc1d0f0 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
> @@ -1658,8 +1658,13 @@ static void show_stalled_ipi_trace(void)
> int cpu;
>
> for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> - if (per_cpu(trc_ipi_to_cpu, cpu))
> + if (per_cpu(trc_ipi_to_cpu, cpu)) {
> pr_alert("\tIPI outstanding to CPU %d\n", cpu);
> + if (cpu_is_offline(cpu))
> + pr_alert("offline CPU %d blocking gp\n", cpu);
> + else
> + dump_cpu_task(cpu);
check_all_holdout_tasks_trace() -> show_stalled_task_trace() has already showed the states/traces of tasks stalling the current RCU tasks trace GP.
Perhaps we don't need to dump these tasks again here.
> + }
> }
>
> /* Do one scan of the holdout list. */
> --
> 2.25.1
