From ce9dbe244bf2063c41792e40dae7745957b118e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mandeep Singh Baines Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 20:35:48 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Suggested-by: Frédéric Weisbecker Acked-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/hung_task.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/hung_task.c b/kernel/hung_task.c index ba8ccd43296..481ca8b5c2b 100644 --- a/kernel/hung_task.c +++ b/kernel/hung_task.c @@ -17,9 +17,18 @@ #include /* - * Have a reasonable limit on the number of tasks checked: + * The number of tasks checked: */ -unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_check_count = 1024; +unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_check_count = PID_MAX_LIMIT; + +/* + * Limit number of tasks checked in a batch. + * + * This value controls the preemptibility of khungtaskd since preemption + * is disabled during the critical section. It also controls the size of + * the RCU grace period. So it needs to be upper-bound. + */ +#define HUNG_TASK_BATCHING 1024 /* * Zero means infinite timeout - no checking done: @@ -109,6 +118,24 @@ static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long now, panic("hung_task: blocked tasks"); } +/* + * To avoid extending the RCU grace period for an unbounded amount of time, + * periodically exit the critical section and enter a new one. + * + * For preemptible RCU it is sufficient to call rcu_read_unlock in order + * exit the grace period. For classic RCU, a reschedule is required. + */ +static void rcu_lock_break(struct task_struct *g, struct task_struct *t) +{ + get_task_struct(g); + get_task_struct(t); + rcu_read_unlock(); + cond_resched(); + rcu_read_lock(); + put_task_struct(t); + put_task_struct(g); +} + /* * Check whether a TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE does not get woken up for * a really long time (120 seconds). If that happens, print out @@ -117,6 +144,7 @@ static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long now, static void check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(unsigned long timeout) { int max_count = sysctl_hung_task_check_count; + int batch_count = HUNG_TASK_BATCHING; unsigned long now = get_timestamp(); struct task_struct *g, *t; @@ -131,6 +159,13 @@ static void check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(unsigned long timeout) do_each_thread(g, t) { if (!--max_count) goto unlock; + if (!--batch_count) { + batch_count = HUNG_TASK_BATCHING; + rcu_lock_break(g, t); + /* Exit if t or g was unhashed during refresh. */ + if (t->state == TASK_DEAD || g->state == TASK_DEAD) + goto unlock; + } /* use "==" to skip the TASK_KILLABLE tasks waiting on NFS */ if (t->state == TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) check_hung_task(t, now, timeout);