[PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation: scheduler: ask users to set sched_debug cmdline

From: Barry Song
Date: Thu Nov 12 2020 - 17:35:45 EST


From: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>

To print the schedule debug information, users need to set sched_debug
cmdline or enable it by sysfs entry.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Freund <adrian@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst
index 55983b7e1098..8582fa5e9170 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ for a given topology level by creating a sched_domain_topology_level array and
calling set_sched_topology() with this array as the parameter.

The sched-domains debugging infrastructure can be enabled by enabling
-CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. This enables an error checking parse of the sched domains
-which should catch most possible errors (described above). It also prints out
-the domain structure in a visual format.
+CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG and adding 'sched_debug' to your cmdline. If you forgot to
+tweak your cmdline, you can also flip the /sys/kernel/debug/sched_debug
+knob. This enables an error checking parse of the sched domains which should
+catch most possible errors (described above). It also prints out the domain
+structure in a visual format.
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