* [PATCH] Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic
@ 2022-03-24 22:11 Joel Savitz
2022-04-21 19:24 ` Joel Savitz
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Joel Savitz @ 2022-03-24 22:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Cc: Joel Savitz, Jonathan Corbet, Andrew Morton, Huang Ying,
Eric Biggers, Dominik Brodowski, Mauro Carvalho Chehab,
Rasmus Villemoes, Jason A. Donenfeld, Daniel Borkmann,
Rob Herring, Wang Qing, linux-doc
commit dfe564045c65 ("rcu: Panic after fixed number of stalls")
introduced a new systctl but no accompanying documentation.
Add a simple entry to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 803c60bf21d3..4e48139b9a34 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -781,6 +781,13 @@ is useful to define the root cause of RCU stalls using a vmcore.
1 panic() after printing RCU stall messages.
= ============================================================
+max_rcu_stall_to_panic
+======================
+
+When ``panic_on_rcu_stall`` is set to 1, this value determines the
+number of times that RCU can stall before panic() is called.
+
+When ``panic_on_rcu_stall`` is set to 0, this value is has no effect.
perf_cpu_time_max_percent
=========================
--
2.27.0
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* Re: [PATCH] Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic
2022-03-24 22:11 [PATCH] Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic Joel Savitz
@ 2022-04-21 19:24 ` Joel Savitz
2022-04-28 18:39 ` Jonathan Corbet
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Joel Savitz @ 2022-04-21 19:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Cc: Jonathan Corbet, Andrew Morton, Huang Ying, Eric Biggers,
Dominik Brodowski, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Rasmus Villemoes,
Jason A. Donenfeld, Daniel Borkmann, Rob Herring, Wang Qing,
linux-doc
Friendly ping.
Joel
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* Re: [PATCH] Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic
2022-04-21 19:24 ` Joel Savitz
@ 2022-04-28 18:39 ` Jonathan Corbet
2022-04-28 18:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Corbet @ 2022-04-28 18:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joel Savitz, linux-kernel
Cc: Andrew Morton, Huang Ying, Eric Biggers, Dominik Brodowski,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Rasmus Villemoes, Jason A. Donenfeld,
Daniel Borkmann, Rob Herring, Wang Qing, linux-doc, chao,
Paul E. McKenney
Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com> writes:
> Friendly ping.
This was waiting for an ack from an RCU person. Looking now, though, I
see that you didn't copy any RCU people. Adding Paul and the author of
the patch you reference (and appending patch below).
Thanks,
jon
Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com> (March 24) (kernel lwn)
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>, Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>, Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:11:56 -0400
commit dfe564045c65 ("rcu: Panic after fixed number of stalls")
introduced a new systctl but no accompanying documentation.
Add a simple entry to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 803c60bf21d3..4e48139b9a34 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -781,6 +781,13 @@ is useful to define the root cause of RCU stalls using a vmcore.
1 panic() after printing RCU stall messages.
= ============================================================
+max_rcu_stall_to_panic
+======================
+
+When ``panic_on_rcu_stall`` is set to 1, this value determines the
+number of times that RCU can stall before panic() is called.
+
+When ``panic_on_rcu_stall`` is set to 0, this value is has no effect.
perf_cpu_time_max_percent
=========================
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* Re: [PATCH] Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic
2022-04-28 18:39 ` Jonathan Corbet
@ 2022-04-28 18:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-05-01 23:15 ` Jonathan Corbet
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Paul E. McKenney @ 2022-04-28 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Joel Savitz, linux-kernel, Andrew Morton, Huang Ying,
Eric Biggers, Dominik Brodowski, Mauro Carvalho Chehab,
Rasmus Villemoes, Jason A. Donenfeld, Daniel Borkmann,
Rob Herring, Wang Qing, linux-doc, chao
On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 12:39:54PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Friendly ping.
>
> This was waiting for an ack from an RCU person. Looking now, though, I
> see that you didn't copy any RCU people. Adding Paul and the author of
> the patch you reference (and appending patch below).
Thank you for calling this to my attention. ;-)
> Thanks,
>
> jon
>
> Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com> (March 24) (kernel lwn)
> Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>, Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>, Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:11:56 -0400
>
> commit dfe564045c65 ("rcu: Panic after fixed number of stalls")
> introduced a new systctl but no accompanying documentation.
>
> Add a simple entry to the documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
> index 803c60bf21d3..4e48139b9a34 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
> @@ -781,6 +781,13 @@ is useful to define the root cause of RCU stalls using a vmcore.
> 1 panic() after printing RCU stall messages.
> = ============================================================
>
> +max_rcu_stall_to_panic
> +======================
> +
> +When ``panic_on_rcu_stall`` is set to 1, this value determines the
> +number of times that RCU can stall before panic() is called.
> +
> +When ``panic_on_rcu_stall`` is set to 0, this value is has no effect.
>
> perf_cpu_time_max_percent
> =========================
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* Re: [PATCH] Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic
2022-04-28 18:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
@ 2022-05-01 23:15 ` Jonathan Corbet
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Corbet @ 2022-05-01 23:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: paulmck
Cc: Joel Savitz, linux-kernel, Andrew Morton, Huang Ying,
Eric Biggers, Dominik Brodowski, Mauro Carvalho Chehab,
Rasmus Villemoes, Jason A. Donenfeld, Daniel Borkmann,
Rob Herring, Wang Qing, linux-doc, chao
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> writes:
>> commit dfe564045c65 ("rcu: Panic after fixed number of stalls")
>> introduced a new systctl but no accompanying documentation.
>>
>> Add a simple entry to the documentation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
>
> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
OK, applied, thanks.
jon
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