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rcu: Update documentation to flag RCU_BOOST trace information
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Call out the RCU_TRACE information that is provided only in kernels
built with RCU_BOOST.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored and Paul E. McKenney committed Sep 29, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -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.
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