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doc: Add broken-timing possibility to stallwarn.rst
Currently, stallwarn.rst does not mention the fact that timer bugs can result in false-positive RCU CPU stall warnings. This commit therefore adds this to the list. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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the ``rcu_.*timer wakeup didn't happen for`` console-log message,
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which will include additional debugging information.
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- A timer issue causes time to appear to jump forward, so that RCU
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believes that the RCU CPU stall-warning timeout has been exceeded
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when in fact much less time has passed. This could be due to
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timer hardware bugs, timer driver bugs, or even corruption of
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the "jiffies" global variable. These sorts of timer hardware
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and driver bugs are not uncommon when testing new hardware.
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- A low-level kernel issue that either fails to invoke one of the
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variants of rcu_eqs_enter(true), rcu_eqs_exit(true), ct_idle_enter(),
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ct_idle_exit(), ct_irq_enter(), or ct_irq_exit() on the one

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