[PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/55] rcu: Update documentation to flag RCU_BOOST trace information

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Sep 07 2011 - 02:28:16 EST


From: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@xxxxxxxxxx>

Call out the RCU_TRACE information that is provided only in kernels
built with RCU_BOOST.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/RCU/trace.txt | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
index 8173cec..a67af0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
@@ -184,10 +184,14 @@ o "kt" is the per-CPU kernel-thread state. The digit preceding
The number after the final slash is the CPU that the kthread
is actually running on.

+ This field is displayed only for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST kernels.
+
o "ktl" is the low-order 16 bits (in hexadecimal) of the count of
the number of times that this CPU's per-CPU kthread has gone
through its loop servicing invoke_rcu_cpu_kthread() requests.

+ This field is displayed only for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST kernels.
+
o "b" is the batch limit for this CPU. If more than this number
of RCU callbacks is ready to invoke, then the remainder will
be deferred.
--
1.7.3.2

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