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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-24 10:11:18 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-24 10:11:23 +0200
commit416dfdcdb894432547ead4fcb9fa6a36b396059e (patch)
tree8033fdda07397a59c5fa98c88927040906ce6c1a /kernel/hung_task.c
parent56449f437add737a1e5e1cb7e00f63ac8ead1938 (diff)
parent091069740304c979f957ceacec39c461d0192158 (diff)
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Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc3' into tracing/hw-branch-tracing
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c Merge reason: fix the conflict above, and also pick up the CONFIG_BROKEN dependency change from upstream so that we can remove it here. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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+/*
+ * Detect Hung Task
+ *
+ * kernel/hung_task.c - kernel thread for detecting tasks stuck in D state
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/cpu.h>
+#include <linux/nmi.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/freezer.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
+#include <linux/lockdep.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/sysctl.h>
+
+/*
+ * The number of tasks checked:
+ */
+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:
+ */
+unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs = 120;
+
+unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_warnings = 10;
+
+static int __read_mostly did_panic;
+
+static struct task_struct *watchdog_task;
+
+/*
+ * Should we panic (and reboot, if panic_timeout= is set) when a
+ * hung task is detected:
+ */
+unsigned int __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_panic =
+ CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE;
+
+static int __init hung_task_panic_setup(char *str)
+{
+ sysctl_hung_task_panic = simple_strtoul(str, NULL, 0);
+
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("hung_task_panic=", hung_task_panic_setup);
+
+static int
+hung_task_panic(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, void *ptr)
+{
+ did_panic = 1;
+
+ return NOTIFY_DONE;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block panic_block = {
+ .notifier_call = hung_task_panic,
+};
+
+static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long timeout)
+{
+ unsigned long switch_count = t->nvcsw + t->nivcsw;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure the task is not frozen.
+ * Also, when a freshly created task is scheduled once, changes
+ * its state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE without having ever been
+ * switched out once, it musn't be checked.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(t->flags & PF_FROZEN || !switch_count))
+ return;
+
+ if (switch_count != t->last_switch_count) {
+ t->last_switch_count = switch_count;
+ return;
+ }
+ if (!sysctl_hung_task_warnings)
+ return;
+ sysctl_hung_task_warnings--;
+
+ /*
+ * Ok, the task did not get scheduled for more than 2 minutes,
+ * complain:
+ */
+ printk(KERN_ERR "INFO: task %s:%d blocked for more than "
+ "%ld seconds.\n", t->comm, t->pid, timeout);
+ printk(KERN_ERR "\"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\""
+ " disables this message.\n");
+ sched_show_task(t);
+ __debug_show_held_locks(t);
+
+ touch_nmi_watchdog();
+
+ if (sysctl_hung_task_panic)
+ 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
+ * a warning.
+ */
+static void check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(unsigned long timeout)
+{
+ int max_count = sysctl_hung_task_check_count;
+ int batch_count = HUNG_TASK_BATCHING;
+ struct task_struct *g, *t;
+
+ /*
+ * If the system crashed already then all bets are off,
+ * do not report extra hung tasks:
+ */
+ if (test_taint(TAINT_DIE) || did_panic)
+ return;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ 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, timeout);
+ } while_each_thread(g, t);
+ unlock:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
+static unsigned long timeout_jiffies(unsigned long timeout)
+{
+ /* timeout of 0 will disable the watchdog */
+ return timeout ? timeout * HZ : MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Process updating of timeout sysctl
+ */
+int proc_dohung_task_timeout_secs(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+ struct file *filp, void __user *buffer,
+ size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+
+ if (ret || !write)
+ goto out;
+
+ wake_up_process(watchdog_task);
+
+ out:
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * kthread which checks for tasks stuck in D state
+ */
+static int watchdog(void *dummy)
+{
+ set_user_nice(current, 0);
+
+ for ( ; ; ) {
+ unsigned long timeout = sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs;
+
+ while (schedule_timeout_interruptible(timeout_jiffies(timeout)))
+ timeout = sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs;
+
+ check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(timeout);
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int __init hung_task_init(void)
+{
+ atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, &panic_block);
+ watchdog_task = kthread_run(watchdog, NULL, "khungtaskd");
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+module_init(hung_task_init);
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