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    rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU · 2133b5d7
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    This patch adds stalled-CPU detection to Classic RCU.  This capability
    is enabled by a new config variable CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR, which
    defaults disabled.
    
    This is a debugging feature to detect infinite loops in kernel code, not
    something that non-kernel-hackers would be expected to care about.
    
    This feature can detect looping CPUs in !PREEMPT builds and looping CPUs
    with preemption disabled in PREEMPT builds.  This is essentially a port of
    this functionality from the treercu patch, replacing the stall debug patch
    that is already in tip/core/rcu (commit 67182ae1
    
    ).
    
    The changes from the patch in tip/core/rcu include making the config
    variable name match that in treercu, changing from seconds to jiffies to
    avoid spurious warnings, and printing a boot message when this feature
    is enabled.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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