rcu: Exclude near-simultaneous RCU CPU stall warnings
There is a two-jiffy delay between the time that a CPU will self-report an RCU CPU stall warning and the time that some other CPU will report a warning on behalf of the first CPU. This has worked well in the past, but on busy systems, it is possible for the two warnings to overlap, which makes interpreting them extremely difficult. This commit therefore uses a cmpxchg-based timing decision that allows only one report in a given one-minute period (assuming default stall-warning Kconfig parameters). This approach will of course fail if you are seeing minute-long vCPU preemption, but in that case the overlapping RCU CPU stall warnings are the least of your worries. Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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