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authorAkira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>2021-05-20 13:32:36 +0900
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2021-07-20 13:36:33 -0700
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Documentation/RCU: Fix emphasis markers
"-foo-" does not work as emphasis in ReST markdown. Use "*foo*" instead. Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst
index 7148e9be08c3..1cc944aec46f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ warnings:
- Booting Linux using a console connection that is too slow to
keep up with the boot-time console-message rate. For example,
- a 115Kbaud serial console can be -way- too slow to keep up
+ a 115Kbaud serial console can be *way* too slow to keep up
with boot-time message rates, and will frequently result in
RCU CPU stall warning messages. Especially if you have added
debug printk()s.
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ warnings:
leading the realization that the CPU had failed.
The RCU, RCU-sched, and RCU-tasks implementations have CPU stall warning.
-Note that SRCU does -not- have CPU stall warnings. Please note that
+Note that SRCU does *not* have CPU stall warnings. Please note that
RCU only detects CPU stalls when there is a grace period in progress.
No grace period, no CPU stall warnings.
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
this parameter is checked only at the beginning of a cycle.
So if you are 10 seconds into a 40-second stall, setting this
sysfs parameter to (say) five will shorten the timeout for the
- -next- stall, or the following warning for the current stall
+ *next* stall, or the following warning for the current stall
(assuming the stall lasts long enough). It will not affect the
timing of the next warning for the current stall.
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ causing stalls, and that the stall was affecting RCU-sched. This message
will normally be followed by stack dumps for each CPU. Please note that
PREEMPT_RCU builds can be stalled by tasks as well as by CPUs, and that
the tasks will be indicated by PID, for example, "P3421". It is even
-possible for an rcu_state stall to be caused by both CPUs -and- tasks,
+possible for an rcu_state stall to be caused by both CPUs *and* tasks,
in which case the offending CPUs and tasks will all be called out in the list.
CPU 2's "(3 GPs behind)" indicates that this CPU has not interacted with