This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
doc: rcu: update printed dynticks counter bits
to the 6.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
doc-rcu-update-printed-dynticks-counter-bits.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit aa8fbd7f95ca2ef204b8cb90ff2e96105586ae01
Author: Baruch Siach <baruch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Aug 18 11:18:17 2024 +0300
doc: rcu: update printed dynticks counter bits
[ Upstream commit 4a09e358922381f9b258e863bcd9c910584203b9 ]
The stall warning prints 16 bits since commit 171476775d32
("context_tracking: Convert state to atomic_t").
Fixes: 171476775d32 ("context_tracking: Convert state to atomic_t")
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst
index ca7b7cd806a16..30080ff6f4062 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ ticks this GP)" indicates that this CPU has not taken any scheduling-clock
interrupts during the current stalled grace period.
The "idle=" portion of the message prints the dyntick-idle state.
-The hex number before the first "/" is the low-order 12 bits of the
+The hex number before the first "/" is the low-order 16 bits of the
dynticks counter, which will have an even-numbered value if the CPU
is in dyntick-idle mode and an odd-numbered value otherwise. The hex
number between the two "/"s is the value of the nesting, which will be
