rcu: Improve diagnostics for spurious RCU CPU stall warnings

The current RCU CPU stall warning code will print "Stall ended before
state dump start" any time that the stall-warning code is triggered on
a CPU that has already reported a quiescent state for the current grace
period and if all quiescent states have been reported for the current
grace period. However, a true stall can result in these symptoms, for
example, by preventing RCU's grace-period kthreads from ever running

This commit therefore checks for this condition, reporting the end of
the stall only if one of the grace-period counters has actually advanced.
Otherwise, it reports the last time that the grace-period kthread made
meaningful progress. (In normal situations, the grace-period kthread
should make meaningful progress at least every jiffies_till_next_fqs
jiffies.)

Reported-by: Miroslav Benes <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[e-mail]>
Tested-by: Miroslav Benes <[e-mail]>

Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt

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 	behavior, you might need to replace some of the cond_resched()
 	calls with calls to cond_resched_rcu_qs().
 
+o	Anything that prevents RCU's grace-period kthreads from running.
+	This can result in the "All QSes seen" console-log message.
+	This message will include information on when the kthread last
+	ran and how often it should be expected to run.
+
 o	A CPU-bound real-time task in a CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel, which might
 	happen to preempt a low-priority task in the middle of an RCU
 	read-side critical section.   This is especially damaging if

kernel/rcu/tree.c

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 	}
 }
 
-static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp)
+static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long gpnum)
 {
 	int cpu;
 	long delta;
 	unsigned long flags;
+	unsigned long gpa;
+	unsigned long j;
 	int ndetected = 0;
 	struct rcu_node *rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp);
 	long totqlen = 0;
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 	pr_cont("(detected by %d, t=%ld jiffies, g=%ld, c=%ld, q=%lu)\n",
 	       smp_processor_id(), (long)(jiffies - rsp->gp_start),
 	       (long)rsp->gpnum, (long)rsp->completed, totqlen);
-	if (ndetected == 0)
-		pr_err("INFO: Stall ended before state dump start\n");
-	else
+	if (ndetected) {
 		rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(rsp);
+	} else {
+		if (ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gpnum) != gpnum ||
+		    ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->completed) == gpnum) {
+			pr_err("INFO: Stall ended before state dump start\n");
+		} else {
+			j = jiffies;
+			gpa = ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity);
+			pr_err("All QSes seen, last %s kthread activity %ld (%ld-%ld), jiffies_till_next_fqs=%ld\n",
+			       rsp->name, j - gpa, j, gpa,
+			       jiffies_till_next_fqs);
+			/* In this case, the current CPU might be at fault. */
+			sched_show_task(current);
+		}
+	}
 
 	/* Complain about tasks blocking the grace period. */
 
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 		   ULONG_CMP_GE(j, js + RCU_STALL_RAT_DELAY)) {
 
 		/* They had a few time units to dump stack, so complain. */
-		print_other_cpu_stall(rsp);
+		print_other_cpu_stall(rsp, gpnum);
 	}
 }
 
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 	struct rcu_data *rdp;
 	struct rcu_node *rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp);
 
+	ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies;
 	rcu_bind_gp_kthread();
 	raw_spin_lock_irq(&rnp->lock);
 	smp_mb__after_unlock_lock();
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 					    rnp->grphi, rnp->qsmask);
 		raw_spin_unlock_irq(&rnp->lock);
 		cond_resched_rcu_qs();
+		ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies;
 	}
 
 	mutex_unlock(&rsp->onoff_mutex);
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 	unsigned long maxj;
 	struct rcu_node *rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp);
 
+	ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies;
 	rsp->n_force_qs++;
 	if (fqs_state == RCU_SAVE_DYNTICK) {
 		/* Collect dyntick-idle snapshots. */
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 	struct rcu_data *rdp;
 	struct rcu_node *rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp);
 
+	ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies;
 	raw_spin_lock_irq(&rnp->lock);
 	smp_mb__after_unlock_lock();
 	gp_duration = jiffies - rsp->gp_start;
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 		nocb += rcu_future_gp_cleanup(rsp, rnp);
 		raw_spin_unlock_irq(&rnp->lock);
 		cond_resched_rcu_qs();
+		ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies;
 	}
 	rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp);
 	raw_spin_lock_irq(&rnp->lock);
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 			if (rcu_gp_init(rsp))
 				break;
 			cond_resched_rcu_qs();
+			ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies;
 			WARN_ON(signal_pending(current));
 			trace_rcu_grace_period(rsp->name,
 					       ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gpnum),
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 						       ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gpnum),
 						       TPS("fqsend"));
 				cond_resched_rcu_qs();
+				ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies;
 			} else {
 				/* Deal with stray signal. */
 				cond_resched_rcu_qs();
+				ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gp_activity) = jiffies;
 				WARN_ON(signal_pending(current));
 				trace_rcu_grace_period(rsp->name,
 						       ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gpnum),

kernel/rcu/tree.h

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 						/*  due to no GP active. */
 	unsigned long gp_start;			/* Time at which GP started, */
 						/*  but in jiffies. */
+	unsigned long gp_activity;		/* Time of last GP kthread */
+						/*  activity in jiffies. */
 	unsigned long jiffies_stall;		/* Time at which to check */
 						/*  for CPU stalls. */
 	unsigned long jiffies_resched;		/* Time at which to resched */