When I was running my testcase which may block hundreds of threads
on fs locks, I got lockup due to output from debug_show_all_locks()
added by commit b2d4c2edb2e4f89a ("locking/hung_task: Show all locks").

I think we don't need to call debug_show_all_locks() on each blocked
thread. Let's defer calling debug_show_all_locks() till before panic()
or leaving for_each_process_thread() loop.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/hung_task.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/hung_task.c b/kernel/hung_task.c
index 2b59c82..a9ada5d 100644
--- a/kernel/hung_task.c
+++ b/kernel/hung_task.c
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 int __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_warnings = 10;
 
 static int __read_mostly did_panic;
+static bool hung_task_show_lock;
 
 static struct task_struct *watchdog_task;
 
@@ -116,12 +117,14 @@ static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, 
unsigned long timeout)
                pr_err("\"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\""
                        " disables this message.\n");
                sched_show_task(t);
-               debug_show_all_locks();
+               hung_task_show_lock = true;
        }
 
        touch_nmi_watchdog();
 
        if (sysctl_hung_task_panic) {
+               if (hung_task_show_lock)
+                       debug_show_all_locks();
                trigger_all_cpu_backtrace();
                panic("hung_task: blocked tasks");
        }
@@ -168,6 +171,7 @@ static void check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(unsigned long 
timeout)
        if (test_taint(TAINT_DIE) || did_panic)
                return;
 
+       hung_task_show_lock = false;
        rcu_read_lock();
        for_each_process_thread(g, t) {
                if (!max_count--)
@@ -183,6 +187,8 @@ static void check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(unsigned long 
timeout)
        }
  unlock:
        rcu_read_unlock();
+       if (hung_task_show_lock)
+               debug_show_all_locks();
 }
 
 static long hung_timeout_jiffies(unsigned long last_checked,
-- 
1.8.3.1

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