[PATCH tip/core/rcu 6/6] rcu: Dump ftrace buffer when kicking grace-period kthread

[Paul E. McKenney]

If it is necessary to kick the grace-period kthread, that is a good
time to dump the trace buffer in order to learn why kicking was needed.
This commit therefore does the dump.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index a739292be605..86edb92276d3 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1266,6 +1266,7 @@ static void rcu_stall_kick_kthreads(struct rcu_state *rsp)
 	j = READ_ONCE(rsp->jiffies_kick_kthreads);
 	if (time_after(jiffies, j) && rsp->gp_kthread) {
 		WARN_ONCE(1, "Kicking %s grace-period kthread\n", rsp->name);
+		rcu_ftrace_dump(DUMP_ALL);
 		wake_up_process(rsp->gp_kthread);
 		WRITE_ONCE(rsp->jiffies_kick_kthreads, j + HZ);
 	}
-- 
2.5.2