On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 05:39:54PM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
> >
> > This commit adds a three-minute RCU-tasks stall warning. The actual
> > time is controlled by the boot/sysfs parameter rcu_task_stall_timeout,
> > with values less than or equal to zero disabling the stall warnings.
> > The default value is three minutes, which means that the tasks that
> > have not yet responded will get their stacks dumped every ten minutes,
> > until they pass through a voluntary context switch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
>
> Something about 3 minutes and 10 minutes is mixed up here!
Good catch, updated the commit log to also say ten minutes.
Thanx, Paul
> > ---
> > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++++
> > kernel/rcu/update.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> > 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > index 910c3829f81d..8cdbde7b17f5 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > @@ -2921,6 +2921,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be
> > entirely omitted.
> > rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
> > Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
> >
> > + rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
> > + Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
> > + messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
> > + to zero.
> > +
> > rdinit= [KNL]
> > Format: <full_path>
> > Run specified binary instead of /init from the
> > ramdisk,
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/update.c b/kernel/rcu/update.c
> > index 8f53a41dd9ee..f1535404a79e 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcu/update.c
> > +++ b/kernel/rcu/update.c
> > @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(rcu_tasks_cbs_lock);
> > DEFINE_SRCU(tasks_rcu_exit_srcu);
> >
> > /* Control stall timeouts. Disable with <= 0, otherwise jiffies till
> > stall. */
> > -static int rcu_task_stall_timeout __read_mostly = HZ * 60 * 3;
> > +static int rcu_task_stall_timeout __read_mostly = HZ * 60 * 10;
> > module_param(rcu_task_stall_timeout, int, 0644);
> >
> > /* Post an RCU-tasks callback. */
> > @@ -449,7 +449,8 @@ void rcu_barrier_tasks(void)
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_barrier_tasks);
> >
> > /* See if tasks are still holding out, complain if so. */
> > -static void check_holdout_task(struct task_struct *t)
> > +static void check_holdout_task(struct task_struct *t,
> > + bool needreport, bool *firstreport)
> > {
> > if (!ACCESS_ONCE(t->rcu_tasks_holdout) ||
> > t->rcu_tasks_nvcsw != ACCESS_ONCE(t->nvcsw) ||
> > @@ -457,7 +458,15 @@ static void check_holdout_task(struct task_struct *t)
> > ACCESS_ONCE(t->rcu_tasks_holdout) = 0;
> > list_del_rcu(&t->rcu_tasks_holdout_list);
> > put_task_struct(t);
> > + return;
> > }
> > + if (!needreport)
> > + return;
> > + if (*firstreport) {
> > + pr_err("INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:\n");
> > + *firstreport = false;
> > + }
> > + sched_show_task(t);
> > }
> >
> > /* RCU-tasks kthread that detects grace periods and invokes callbacks. */
> > @@ -465,6 +474,7 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_tasks_kthread(void *arg)
> > {
> > unsigned long flags;
> > struct task_struct *g, *t;
> > + unsigned long lastreport;
> > struct rcu_head *list;
> > struct rcu_head *next;
> > LIST_HEAD(rcu_tasks_holdouts);
> > @@ -543,13 +553,24 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_tasks_kthread(void *arg)
> > * of holdout tasks, removing any that are no longer
> > * holdouts. When the list is empty, we are done.
> > */
> > + lastreport = jiffies;
> > while (!list_empty(&rcu_tasks_holdouts)) {
> > + bool firstreport;
> > + bool needreport;
> > + int rtst;
> > +
> > schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ);
> > + rtst = ACCESS_ONCE(rcu_task_stall_timeout);
> > + needreport = rtst > 0 &&
> > + time_after(jiffies, lastreport + rtst);
> > + if (needreport)
> > + lastreport = jiffies;
> > + firstreport = true;
> > WARN_ON(signal_pending(current));
> > rcu_read_lock();
> > list_for_each_entry_rcu(t, &rcu_tasks_holdouts,
> > rcu_tasks_holdout_list)
> > - check_holdout_task(t);
> > + check_holdout_task(t, needreport,
> > &firstreport);
> > rcu_read_unlock();
> > }
> >
> > --
> > 1.8.1.5
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Pranith
>
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