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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt index f3e0625f4290..083d88cbc089 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt @@ -114,12 +114,11 @@ o A hardware failure. This is quite unlikely, but has occurred This resulted in a series of RCU CPU stall warnings, eventually leading the realization that the CPU had failed. -The RCU, RCU-sched, and RCU-bh implementations have CPU stall -warning. SRCU does not have its own CPU stall warnings, but its -calls to synchronize_sched() will result in RCU-sched detecting -RCU-sched-related CPU stalls. Please note that RCU only detects -CPU stalls when there is a grace period in progress. No grace period, -no CPU stall warnings. +The RCU, RCU-sched, and RCU-bh implementations have CPU stall warning. +SRCU does not have its own CPU stall warnings, but its calls to +synchronize_sched() will result in RCU-sched detecting RCU-sched-related +CPU stalls. Please note that RCU only detects CPU stalls when there is +a grace period in progress. No grace period, no CPU stall warnings. To diagnose the cause of the stall, inspect the stack traces. The offending function will usually be near the top of the stack. |