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The rcu_dump_cpu_stacks() holds the leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock when dumping the stakcks of any CPUs stalling the current grace period. This lock is held to prevent confusion that would otherwise occur when the stalled CPU reported its quiescent state (and then went on to do unrelated things) just as the backtrace NMI was heading towards it. This has worked well, but on larger systems has recently been observed to cause severe lock contention resulting in CSD-lock stalls and other general unhappiness. This commit therefore does printk_deferred_enter() before acquiring the lock and printk_deferred_exit() after releasing it, thus deferring the overhead of actually outputting the stack trace out of that lock's critical section. Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Suggested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.