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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-04-13 21:31:18 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-14 11:33:43 +0200
commit6fd9b3a40b82081d9e6490b0d7cd656e9a78a134 (patch)
treec40cc0878a4777ca9bc8d02d4f762e42e577ed34 /Documentation/RCU
parent7ba5c840e64d4a967379f1ae3eca73278180b11d (diff)
rcu: Update RCU tracing documentation for __rcu_pending
This patch updates the RCU documentation to reflect the changes in tracing made in the previous patch in the set. Located-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: anton@samba.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: schamp@sgi.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: ego@in.ibm.com Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <12396834792865-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/trace.txt102
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
index 068848240a8..02cced183b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
@@ -192,23 +192,24 @@ rcu/rcuhier (which displays the struct rcu_node hierarchy).
The output of "cat rcu/rcudata" looks as follows:
rcu:
- 0 c=4011 g=4012 pq=1 pqc=4011 qp=0 rpfq=1 rp=3c2a dt=23301/73 dn=2 df=1882 of=0 ri=2126 ql=2 b=10
- 1 c=4011 g=4012 pq=1 pqc=4011 qp=0 rpfq=3 rp=39a6 dt=78073/1 dn=2 df=1402 of=0 ri=1875 ql=46 b=10
- 2 c=4010 g=4010 pq=1 pqc=4010 qp=0 rpfq=-5 rp=1d12 dt=16646/0 dn=2 df=3140 of=0 ri=2080 ql=0 b=10
- 3 c=4012 g=4013 pq=1 pqc=4012 qp=1 rpfq=3 rp=2b50 dt=21159/1 dn=2 df=2230 of=0 ri=1923 ql=72 b=10
- 4 c=4012 g=4013 pq=1 pqc=4012 qp=1 rpfq=3 rp=1644 dt=5783/1 dn=2 df=3348 of=0 ri=2805 ql=7 b=10
- 5 c=4012 g=4013 pq=0 pqc=4011 qp=1 rpfq=3 rp=1aac dt=5879/1 dn=2 df=3140 of=0 ri=2066 ql=10 b=10
- 6 c=4012 g=4013 pq=1 pqc=4012 qp=1 rpfq=3 rp=ed8 dt=5847/1 dn=2 df=3797 of=0 ri=1266 ql=10 b=10
- 7 c=4012 g=4013 pq=1 pqc=4012 qp=1 rpfq=3 rp=1fa2 dt=6199/1 dn=2 df=2795 of=0 ri=2162 ql=28 b=10
+rcu:
+ 0 c=17829 g=17829 pq=1 pqc=17829 qp=0 dt=10951/1 dn=0 df=1101 of=0 ri=36 ql=0 b=10
+ 1 c=17829 g=17829 pq=1 pqc=17829 qp=0 dt=16117/1 dn=0 df=1015 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
+ 2 c=17829 g=17829 pq=1 pqc=17829 qp=0 dt=1445/1 dn=0 df=1839 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
+ 3 c=17829 g=17829 pq=1 pqc=17829 qp=0 dt=6681/1 dn=0 df=1545 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
+ 4 c=17829 g=17829 pq=1 pqc=17829 qp=0 dt=1003/1 dn=0 df=1992 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
+ 5 c=17829 g=17830 pq=1 pqc=17829 qp=1 dt=3887/1 dn=0 df=3331 of=0 ri=4 ql=2 b=10
+ 6 c=17829 g=17829 pq=1 pqc=17829 qp=0 dt=859/1 dn=0 df=3224 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
+ 7 c=17829 g=17830 pq=0 pqc=17829 qp=1 dt=3761/1 dn=0 df=1818 of=0 ri=0 ql=2 b=10
rcu_bh:
- 0 c=-268 g=-268 pq=1 pqc=-268 qp=0 rpfq=-145 rp=21d6 dt=23301/73 dn=2 df=0 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
- 1 c=-268 g=-268 pq=1 pqc=-268 qp=1 rpfq=-170 rp=20ce dt=78073/1 dn=2 df=26 of=0 ri=5 ql=0 b=10
- 2 c=-268 g=-268 pq=1 pqc=-268 qp=1 rpfq=-83 rp=fbd dt=16646/0 dn=2 df=28 of=0 ri=4 ql=0 b=10
- 3 c=-268 g=-268 pq=1 pqc=-268 qp=0 rpfq=-105 rp=178c dt=21159/1 dn=2 df=28 of=0 ri=2 ql=0 b=10
- 4 c=-268 g=-268 pq=1 pqc=-268 qp=1 rpfq=-30 rp=b54 dt=5783/1 dn=2 df=32 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
- 5 c=-268 g=-268 pq=1 pqc=-268 qp=1 rpfq=-29 rp=df5 dt=5879/1 dn=2 df=30 of=0 ri=3 ql=0 b=10
- 6 c=-268 g=-268 pq=1 pqc=-268 qp=1 rpfq=-28 rp=788 dt=5847/1 dn=2 df=32 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
- 7 c=-268 g=-268 pq=1 pqc=-268 qp=1 rpfq=-53 rp=1098 dt=6199/1 dn=2 df=30 of=0 ri=3 ql=0 b=10
+ 0 c=-275 g=-275 pq=1 pqc=-275 qp=0 dt=10951/1 dn=0 df=0 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
+ 1 c=-275 g=-275 pq=1 pqc=-275 qp=0 dt=16117/1 dn=0 df=13 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
+ 2 c=-275 g=-275 pq=1 pqc=-275 qp=0 dt=1445/1 dn=0 df=15 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
+ 3 c=-275 g=-275 pq=1 pqc=-275 qp=0 dt=6681/1 dn=0 df=9 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
+ 4 c=-275 g=-275 pq=1 pqc=-275 qp=0 dt=1003/1 dn=0 df=15 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
+ 5 c=-275 g=-275 pq=1 pqc=-275 qp=0 dt=3887/1 dn=0 df=15 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
+ 6 c=-275 g=-275 pq=1 pqc=-275 qp=0 dt=859/1 dn=0 df=15 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
+ 7 c=-275 g=-275 pq=1 pqc=-275 qp=0 dt=3761/1 dn=0 df=15 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10
The first section lists the rcu_data structures for rcu, the second for
rcu_bh. Each section has one line per CPU, or eight for this 8-CPU system.
@@ -253,12 +254,6 @@ o "pqc" indicates which grace period the last-observed quiescent
o "qp" indicates that RCU still expects a quiescent state from
this CPU.
-o "rpfq" is the number of rcu_pending() calls on this CPU required
- to induce this CPU to invoke force_quiescent_state().
-
-o "rp" is low-order four hex digits of the count of how many times
- rcu_pending() has been invoked on this CPU.
-
o "dt" is the current value of the dyntick counter that is incremented
when entering or leaving dynticks idle state, either by the
scheduler or by irq. The number after the "/" is the interrupt
@@ -305,6 +300,9 @@ 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.
+There is also an rcu/rcudata.csv file with the same information in
+comma-separated-variable spreadsheet format.
+
The output of "cat rcu/rcugp" looks as follows:
@@ -411,3 +409,63 @@ o Each element of the form "1/1 0:127 ^0" represents one struct
For example, the first entry at the lowest level shows
"^0", indicating that it corresponds to bit zero in
the first entry at the middle level.
+
+
+The output of "cat rcu/rcu_pending" looks as follows:
+
+rcu:
+ 0 np=255892 qsp=53936 cbr=0 cng=14417 gpc=10033 gps=24320 nf=6445 nn=146741
+ 1 np=261224 qsp=54638 cbr=0 cng=25723 gpc=16310 gps=2849 nf=5912 nn=155792
+ 2 np=237496 qsp=49664 cbr=0 cng=2762 gpc=45478 gps=1762 nf=1201 nn=136629
+ 3 np=236249 qsp=48766 cbr=0 cng=286 gpc=48049 gps=1218 nf=207 nn=137723
+ 4 np=221310 qsp=46850 cbr=0 cng=26 gpc=43161 gps=4634 nf=3529 nn=123110
+ 5 np=237332 qsp=48449 cbr=0 cng=54 gpc=47920 gps=3252 nf=201 nn=137456
+ 6 np=219995 qsp=46718 cbr=0 cng=50 gpc=42098 gps=6093 nf=4202 nn=120834
+ 7 np=249893 qsp=49390 cbr=0 cng=72 gpc=38400 gps=17102 nf=41 nn=144888
+rcu_bh:
+ 0 np=146741 qsp=1419 cbr=0 cng=6 gpc=0 gps=0 nf=2 nn=145314
+ 1 np=155792 qsp=12597 cbr=0 cng=0 gpc=4 gps=8 nf=3 nn=143180
+ 2 np=136629 qsp=18680 cbr=0 cng=0 gpc=7 gps=6 nf=0 nn=117936
+ 3 np=137723 qsp=2843 cbr=0 cng=0 gpc=10 gps=7 nf=0 nn=134863
+ 4 np=123110 qsp=12433 cbr=0 cng=0 gpc=4 gps=2 nf=0 nn=110671
+ 5 np=137456 qsp=4210 cbr=0 cng=0 gpc=6 gps=5 nf=0 nn=133235
+ 6 np=120834 qsp=9902 cbr=0 cng=0 gpc=6 gps=3 nf=2 nn=110921
+ 7 np=144888 qsp=26336 cbr=0 cng=0 gpc=8 gps=2 nf=0 nn=118542
+
+As always, this is once again split into "rcu" and "rcu_bh" portions.
+The fields are as follows:
+
+o "np" is the number of times that __rcu_pending() has been invoked
+ for the corresponding flavor of RCU.
+
+o "qsp" is the number of times that the RCU was waiting for a
+ quiescent state from this CPU.
+
+o "cbr" is the number of times that this CPU had RCU callbacks
+ that had passed through a grace period, and were thus ready
+ to be invoked.
+
+o "cng" is the number of times that this CPU needed another
+ grace period while RCU was idle.
+
+o "gpc" is the number of times that an old grace period had
+ completed, but this CPU was not yet aware of it.
+
+o "gps" is the number of times that a new grace period had started,
+ but this CPU was not yet aware of it.
+
+o "nf" is the number of times that this CPU suspected that the
+ current grace period had run for too long, and thus needed to
+ be forced.
+
+ Please note that "forcing" consists of sending resched IPIs
+ to holdout CPUs. If that CPU really still is in an old RCU
+ read-side critical section, then we really do have to wait for it.
+ The assumption behing "forcing" is that the CPU is not still in
+ an old RCU read-side critical section, but has not yet responded
+ for some other reason.
+
+o "nn" is the number of times that this CPU needed nothing. Alert
+ readers will note that the rcu "nn" number for a given CPU very
+ closely matches the rcu_bh "np" number for that same CPU. This
+ is due to short-circuit evaluation in rcu_pending().