From patchwork Tue Sep 6 17:59:57 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Paul E. McKenney" X-Patchwork-Id: 3944 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@peony.canonical.com Delivered-To: patchwork@peony.canonical.com Received: from fiordland.canonical.com (fiordland.canonical.com [91.189.94.145]) by peony.canonical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29C623FD9 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 06:21:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f52.google.com (mail-fx0-f52.google.com [209.85.161.52]) by fiordland.canonical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B798BA1817A for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 06:21:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-fx0-f52.google.com with SMTP id 18so398985fxd.11 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.5.139 with SMTP id 11mr1287707fav.138.1315376473543; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:21:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Forwarded-To: linaro-patchwork@canonical.com X-Forwarded-For: patch@linaro.org linaro-patchwork@canonical.com Delivered-To: patches@linaro.org Received: by 10.152.11.8 with SMTP id m8cs127812lab; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 23:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.159.20 with SMTP id h20mr4530099age.8.1315376471982; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e8.ny.us.ibm.com (e8.ny.us.ibm.com [32.97.182.138]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p11si423952anp.134.2011.09.06.23.21.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com designates 32.97.182.138 as permitted sender) client-ip=32.97.182.138; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com designates 32.97.182.138 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e8.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p8766wPM000713; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 02:06:58 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id p876Klpw292216; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 02:20:52 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id p876KhKW005186; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 02:20:47 -0400 Received: from paulmck-ThinkPad-W500 (dyn9050016039.mts.ibm.com [9.50.16.39] (may be forged)) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVin) with ESMTP id p876KZPX004575; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 02:20:42 -0400 Received: by paulmck-ThinkPad-W500 (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4C23413F86B; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:00:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, patches@linaro.org, "Paul E. McKenney" , "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/55] rcu: Update documentation to flag RCU_BOOST trace information Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:59:57 -0700 Message-Id: <1315332049-2604-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.3.2 In-Reply-To: <20110906180015.GA2560@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20110906180015.GA2560@linux.vnet.ibm.com> From: Paul E. McKenney Call out the RCU_TRACE information that is provided only in kernels built with RCU_BOOST. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- Documentation/RCU/trace.txt | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt index 8173cec..a67af0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt @@ -184,10 +184,14 @@ o "kt" is the per-CPU kernel-thread state. The digit preceding The number after the final slash is the CPU that the kthread is actually running on. + This field is displayed only for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST kernels. + o "ktl" is the low-order 16 bits (in hexadecimal) of the count of the number of times that this CPU's per-CPU kthread has gone through its loop servicing invoke_rcu_cpu_kthread() requests. + This field is displayed only for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST kernels. + o "b" is the batch limit for this CPU. If more than this number of RCU callbacks is ready to invoke, then the remainder will be deferred.