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Author SHA1 Message Date
Vegard Nossum
b2d4c2edb2 locking/hung_task: Show all locks
When we get a hung task it can often be valuable to see _all_ the held
locks on the system (in case we are being blocked on trying to acquire
one), e.g. with this patch we can immediately see where the problem is
below:

    INFO: task trinity-c3:14933 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
	  Not tainted 4.8.0-rc1+ #135
    "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
    trinity-c3      D ffff88010c16fc88     0 14933      1 0x00080004
     ffff88010c16fc88 000000003b9aca00 0000000000000000 0000000000000296
     00000000776cdf88 ffff88011a520ae0 ffff88011a520b08 ffff88011a520198
     ffffffff867d7f00 ffff88011942c080 ffff880116841580 ffff88010c168000
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff845e9d37>] schedule+0x77/0x230
     [<ffffffff833cb8b9>] __lock_sock+0x129/0x250
     [<ffffffff833cb790>] ? __sk_destruct+0x450/0x450
     [<ffffffff81408ac0>] ? wake_bit_function+0x2e0/0x2e0
     [<ffffffff833d832b>] lock_sock_nested+0xeb/0x120
     [<ffffffff83bad815>] irda_setsockopt+0x65/0xb40
     [<ffffffff833c6c09>] SyS_setsockopt+0x139/0x230
     [<ffffffff833c6ad0>] ? SyS_recv+0x20/0x20
     [<ffffffff81004660>] ? trace_event_raw_event_sys_enter+0xb90/0xb90
     [<ffffffff823c7023>] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20
     [<ffffffff8162ee60>] ? __context_tracking_exit.part.3+0x30/0x1b0
     [<ffffffff833c6ad0>] ? SyS_recv+0x20/0x20
     [<ffffffff81007bd3>] do_syscall_64+0x1b3/0x4b0
     [<ffffffff845f84aa>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25

    Showing all locks held in the system:
    2 locks held by khungtaskd/563:
     #0:  (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff81534ce6>] watchdog+0x106/0x910
     #1:  (tasklist_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff8141b3c4>] debug_show_all_locks+0x74/0x360
    1 lock held by trinity-c0/19280:
     #0:  (sk_lock-AF_IRDA){......}, at: [<ffffffff83bab7c6>] irda_accept+0x176/0x10f0
    1 lock held by trinity-c0/12865:
     #0:  (sk_lock-AF_IRDA){......}, at: [<ffffffff83bab7c6>] irda_accept+0x176/0x10f0

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471538460-7505-1-git-send-email-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-08-24 12:16:13 +02:00
Tetsuo Handa
b4aa14a63c kernel/hung_task.c: use timeout diff when timeout is updated
When new timeout is written to /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs,
khungtaskd is interrupted and again sleeps for full timeout duration.

This means that hang task will not be checked if new timeout is written
periodically within old timeout duration and/or checking of hang task
will be delayed for up to previous timeout duration.  Fix this by
remembering last time khungtaskd checked hang task.

This change will allow other watchdog tasks (if any) to share khungtaskd
by sleeping for minimal timeout diff of all watchdog tasks.  Doing more
watchdog tasks from khungtaskd will reduce the possibility of printk()
collisions by multiple watchdog threads.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
Aaron Tomlin
972fae6993 kernel/hung_task.c: change hung_task.c to use for_each_process_thread()
In check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks() avoid the use of deprecated
while_each_thread().

The "max_count" logic will prevent a livelock - see commit 0c740d0a
("introduce for_each_thread() to replace the buggy while_each_thread()").
Having said this let's use for_each_process_thread().

Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
Fabian Frederick
b51dbec68c kernel/hung_task.c: convert simple_strtoul to kstrtouint
sysctl_hung_task_panic has been changed to unsigned int.  use kstrtouint
instead of obsolete simple_strtoul

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
Paul Gortmaker
c96d6660dc kernel: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code
Code that is obj-y (always built-in) or dependent on a bool Kconfig
(built-in or absent) can never be modular.  So using module_init as an
alias for __initcall can be somewhat misleading.

Fix these up now, so that we can relocate module_init from init.h into
module.h in the future.  If we don't do this, we'd have to add module.h
to obviously non-modular code, and that would be a worse thing.

The audit targets the following module_init users for change:
 kernel/user.c                  obj-y
 kernel/kexec.c                 bool KEXEC (one instance per arch)
 kernel/profile.c               bool PROFILING
 kernel/hung_task.c             bool DETECT_HUNG_TASK
 kernel/sched/stats.c           bool SCHEDSTATS
 kernel/user_namespace.c        bool USER_NS

Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs.  one of the
priority categorized subgroups.  As __initcall gets mapped onto
device_initcall, our use of subsys_initcall (which makes sense for these
files) will thus change this registration from level 6-device to level
4-subsys (i.e.  slightly earlier).  However no observable impact of that
difference has been observed during testing.

Also, two instances of missing ";" at EOL are fixed in kexec.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:07 -07:00
Aaron Tomlin
270750dbc1 hung_task: Display every hung task warning
When khungtaskd detects hung tasks, it prints out
backtraces from a number of those tasks.

Limiting the number of backtraces being printed
out can result in the user not seeing the information
necessary to debug the issue. The hung_task_warnings
sysctl controls this feature.

This patch makes it possible for hung_task_warnings
to accept a special value to print an unlimited
number of backtraces when khungtaskd detects hung
tasks.

The special value is -1. To use this value it is
necessary to change types from ulong to int.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390239253-24030-3-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com
[ Build warning fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-25 12:13:33 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
f080480488 Here are the 3.13 KVM changes. There was a lot of work on the PPC
side: the HV and emulation flavors can now coexist in a single kernel
 is probably the most interesting change from a user point of view.
 On the x86 side there are nested virtualization improvements and a
 few bugfixes.  ARM got transparent huge page support, improved
 overcommit, and support for big endian guests.
 
 Finally, there is a new interface to connect KVM with VFIO.  This
 helps with devices that use NoSnoop PCI transactions, letting the
 driver in the guest execute WBINVD instructions.  This includes
 some nVidia cards on Windows, that fail to start without these
 patches and the corresponding userspace changes.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Here are the 3.13 KVM changes.  There was a lot of work on the PPC
  side: the HV and emulation flavors can now coexist in a single kernel
  is probably the most interesting change from a user point of view.

  On the x86 side there are nested virtualization improvements and a few
  bugfixes.

  ARM got transparent huge page support, improved overcommit, and
  support for big endian guests.

  Finally, there is a new interface to connect KVM with VFIO.  This
  helps with devices that use NoSnoop PCI transactions, letting the
  driver in the guest execute WBINVD instructions.  This includes some
  nVidia cards on Windows, that fail to start without these patches and
  the corresponding userspace changes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (146 commits)
  kvm, vmx: Fix lazy FPU on nested guest
  arm/arm64: KVM: PSCI: propagate caller endianness to the incoming vcpu
  arm/arm64: KVM: MMIO support for BE guest
  kvm, cpuid: Fix sparse warning
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function kvm_check_iopl
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function complete_pio
  hung_task: add method to reset detector
  pvclock: detect watchdog reset at pvclock read
  kvm: optimize out smp_mb after srcu_read_unlock
  srcu: API for barrier after srcu read unlock
  KVM: remove vm mmap method
  KVM: IOMMU: hva align mapping page size
  KVM: x86: trace cpuid emulation when called from emulator
  KVM: emulator: cleanup decode_register_operand() a bit
  KVM: emulator: check rex prefix inside decode_register()
  KVM: x86: fix emulation of "movzbl %bpl, %eax"
  kvm_host: typo fix
  KVM: x86: emulate SAHF instruction
  MAINTAINERS: add tree for kvm.git
  Documentation/kvm: add a 00-INDEX file
  ...
2013-11-15 13:51:36 +09:00
Marcelo Tosatti
8b414521bc hung_task: add method to reset detector
In certain occasions it is possible for a hung task detector
positive to be false: continuation from a paused VM, for example.

Add a method to reset detection, similar as is done
with other kernel watchdogs.

Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
2013-11-06 09:49:02 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
6a716c90a5 hung_task debugging: Add tracepoint to report the hang
Currently check_hung_task() prints a warning if it detects the
problem, but it is not convenient to watch the system logs if
user-space wants to be notified about the hang.

Add the new trace_sched_process_hang() into check_hung_task(),
this way a user-space monitor can easily wait for the hang and
potentially resolve a problem.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Sullivan <dsulliva@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131019161828.GA7439@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-31 11:16:18 +01:00
Li Zefan
cd64647f04 hung_task: Change sysctl_hung_task_check_count to 'int'
As 'sysctl_hung_task_check_count' is 'unsigned long' when this
value is assigned to max_count in check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(),
it's truncated to 'int' type.

This causes a minor artifact: if we write 2^32 to sysctl.hung_task_check_count,
hung task detection will be effectively disabled.

With this fix, it will still truncate the user input to 32 bits, but
reading sysctl.hung_task_check_count reflects the actual truncated value.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/523FFF4E.9050401@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-23 11:10:49 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
41e85ce822 hung_task debugging: Print more info when reporting the problem
printk(KERN_ERR) from check_hung_task() likely means we have a bug,
but unlike BUG_ON()/WARN_ON ()it doesn't show the kernel version,
this complicates the bug-reports investigation.

Add the additional pr_err() to print tainted/release/version
like dump_stack_print_info() does, the output becomes:

        INFO: task perl:504 blocked for more than 2 seconds.
	      Not tainted 3.11.0-rc1-10367-g136bb46-dirty #1763
        "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
        ...

While at it, turn the old printk's into pr_err().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: ahecox@redhat.com
Cc: Christopher Williams <cww@redhat.com>
Cc: dwysocha@redhat.com
Cc: gavin@redhat.com
Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: nshi@redhat.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130801165941.GA17544@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-02 11:02:42 +02:00
Sasha Levin
625056b65e hung task debugging: Inject NMI when hung and going to panic
Send an NMI to all CPUs when a hung task is detected and the hung
task code is configured to panic. This gives us a fairly uptodate
snapshot of all CPUs in the system.

This lets us get stack trace of all CPUs which makes life easier
trying to debug a deadlock, and the NMI doesn't change anything
since the next step is a kernel panic.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331848040-1676-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com
[ extended the changelog a bit ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-04-25 12:39:25 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
6027ce497d hung_task: fix the broken rcu_lock_break() logic
check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks()->rcu_lock_break() introduced by
"softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task" commit ce9dbe24 looks
absolutely wrong.

	- rcu_lock_break() does put_task_struct(). If the task has exited
	  it is not safe to even read its ->state, nothing protects this
	  task_struct.

	- The TASK_DEAD checks are wrong too. Contrary to the comment, we
	  can't use it to check if the task was unhashed. It can be unhashed
	  without TASK_DEAD, or it can be valid with TASK_DEAD.

	  For example, an autoreaping task can do release_task(current)
	  long before it sets TASK_DEAD in do_exit().

	  Or, a zombie task can have ->state == TASK_DEAD but release_task()
	  was not called, and in this case we must not break the loop.

Change this code to check pid_alive() instead, and do this before we drop
the reference to the task_struct.

Note: while_each_thread() under rcu_read_lock() is not really safe, it can
livelock.  This will be fixed later, but fortunately in this case the
"max_count" logic saves us anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
Mandeep Singh Baines
f9fab10bbd hung_task: fix false positive during vfork
vfork parent uninterruptibly and unkillably waits for its child to
exec/exit. This wait is of unbounded length. Ignore such waits
in the hung_task detector.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1325344394.28904.43.camel@lappy>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-03 16:14:32 -08:00
Paul Gortmaker
9984de1a5a kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else.  Revector them
onto the isolated export header for faster compile times.

Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of:

  -#include <linux/module.h>
  +#include <linux/export.h>

This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets
will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
Jeff Mahoney
e11feaa119 watchdog, hung_task_timeout: Add Kconfig configurable default
This patch allows the default value for sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs
to be set at build time. The feature carries virtually no overhead,
so it makes sense to keep it enabled. On heavily loaded systems, though,
it can end up triggering stack traces when there is no bug other than
the system being underprovisioned. We use this patch to keep the hung task
facility available but disabled at boot-time.

The default of 120 seconds is preserved. As a note, commit e162b39a may
have accidentally reverted commit fb822db4, which raised the default from
120 seconds to 480 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DB8600C.8080000@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-28 09:13:17 +02:00
John Kacur
6a103b0d44 lockup detector: Fix grammar by adding a missing "to" in the comments
This fixes a minor grammar problem in the comments in
hung_task.c

Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1281021054-4228-2-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-17 09:11:52 +02:00
John Kacur
f1b499f029 lockdep: Remove __debug_show_held_locks
There is no longer any functional difference between
__debug_show_held_locks() and debug_show_held_locks(),
so remove the former.

Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1281021054-4228-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-17 09:11:10 +02:00
Anton Blanchard
e5af022616 softlockup: Fix hung_task_check_count sysctl
I'm seeing spikes of up to 0.5ms in khungtaskd on a large
machine. To reduce this source of jitter I tried setting
hung_task_check_count to 0:

 # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_check_count

which didn't have the intended response. Change to a post
increment of max_count, so a value of 0 means check 0 tasks.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: msb@google.com
LKML-Reference: <20091127022820.GU32182@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-27 06:21:57 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan
8d65af789f sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler
It's unused.

It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.

It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
cf2592f59c softlockup: ensure the task has been switched out once
When we check if a task has been switched out since the last scan, we might
have a race condition on the following scenario:

- the task is freshly created and scheduled

- it puts its state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and is not yet switched out

- check_hung_task() scans this task and will report a false positive because
  t->nvcsw + t->nivcsw == t->last_switch_count == 0

Add a check for such cases.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 11:04:16 +01:00
Mandeep Singh Baines
17406b82d6 softlockup: remove timestamp checking from hung_task
Impact: saves sizeof(long) bytes per task_struct

By guaranteeing that sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs have elapsed between
tasklist scans we can avoid using timestamps.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 11:03:49 +01:00
Mandeep Singh Baines
94be52dc07 softlockup: convert read_lock in hung_task to rcu_read_lock
Since the tasklist is protected by rcu list operations, it is safe
to convert the read_lock()s to rcu_read_lock().

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05 19:55:31 +01:00
Mandeep Singh Baines
ce9dbe244b softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task
Impact: extend the scope of hung-task checks

Changed the default value of hung_task_check_count to PID_MAX_LIMIT.
hung_task_batch_count added to put an upper bound on the critical
section. Every hung_task_batch_count checks, the rcu lock is never
held for a too long time.

Keeping the critical section small minimizes time preemption is disabled
and keeps rcu grace periods small.

To prevent following a stale pointer, get_task_struct is called on g and t.
To verify that g and t have not been unhashed while outside the critical
section, the task states are checked.

The design was proposed by Frédéric Weisbecker.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Suggested-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05 19:54:57 +01:00
Mandeep Singh Baines
603a148f43 softlockup: fix potential race in hung_task when resetting timeout
Impact: fix potential false panic

A potential race exists if sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs is reset to 0
while inside check_hung_uniterruptible_tasks(). If check_task() is
entered, a comparison with 0 will result in a false hung_task being
detected.

If sysctl_hung_task_panic is set, the system will panic.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-18 19:20:17 +01:00
Mandeep Singh Baines
e162b39a36 softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detection
Decoupling allows:

* hung tasks check to happen at very low priority

* hung tasks check and softlockup to be enabled/disabled independently
  at compile and/or run-time

* individual panic settings to be enabled disabled independently
  at compile and/or run-time

* softlockup threshold to be reduced without increasing hung tasks
  poll frequency (hung task check is expensive relative to softlock watchdog)

* hung task check to be zero over-head when disabled at run-time

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 14:06:04 +01:00