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documentation: Long-running irq handlers can stall RCU grace periods
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 9 Aug 2017 17:16:29 +0000 (10:16 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 9 Oct 2017 21:23:36 +0000 (14:23 -0700)
commitdfa0ee48ef86f79430d2be9d1e2e1b509abb3cce
tree44aeecfa9f8e874ddbd0df2fda15494b37d1d4f0
parentbb7e5ce7dde6f42e7793bd6cf4b1eb71a20145aa
documentation: Long-running irq handlers can stall RCU grace periods

If a periodic interrupt's handler takes longer to execute than the period
between successive interrupts, RCU's kthreads and softirq handlers can
be prevented from executing, resulting in otherwise inexplicable RCU
CPU stall warnings.  This commit therefore calls out this possibility
in Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt.

Reported-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt