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authorMandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>2009-01-15 11:08:40 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-16 14:06:04 +0100
commite162b39a368f0401e41b558f430c354d12a85b37 (patch)
tree3fb7e4d48f398d62e5074e7e3dd183cc54f59820 /kernel/hung_task.c
parentc903ff837909ccada51243307d4239f86af40179 (diff)
downloadlinux-e162b39a368f0401e41b558f430c354d12a85b37.tar.gz
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>
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diff --git a/kernel/hung_task.c b/kernel/hung_task.c
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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>
+
+/*
+ * Have a reasonable limit on the number of tasks checked:
+ */
+unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_check_count = 1024;
+
+/*
+ * Zero means infinite timeout - no checking done:
+ */
+unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs = 120;
+static unsigned long __read_mostly hung_task_poll_jiffies;
+
+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,
+};
+
+/*
+ * Returns seconds, approximately.  We don't need nanosecond
+ * resolution, and we don't need to waste time with a big divide when
+ * 2^30ns == 1.074s.
+ */
+static unsigned long get_timestamp(void)
+{
+	int this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+
+	return cpu_clock(this_cpu) >> 30LL;  /* 2^30 ~= 10^9 */
+}
+
+static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long now)
+{
+	unsigned long switch_count = t->nvcsw + t->nivcsw;
+
+	if (t->flags & PF_FROZEN)
+		return;
+
+	if (switch_count != t->last_switch_count || !t->last_switch_timestamp) {
+		t->last_switch_count = switch_count;
+		t->last_switch_timestamp = now;
+		return;
+	}
+	if ((long)(now - t->last_switch_timestamp) <
+					sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs)
+		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,
+			sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs);
+	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);
+
+	t->last_switch_timestamp = now;
+	touch_nmi_watchdog();
+
+	if (sysctl_hung_task_panic)
+		panic("hung_task: blocked tasks");
+}
+
+/*
+ * 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(void)
+{
+	int max_count = sysctl_hung_task_check_count;
+	unsigned long now = get_timestamp();
+	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;
+
+	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	do_each_thread(g, t) {
+		if (!--max_count)
+			goto unlock;
+		/* use "==" to skip the TASK_KILLABLE tasks waiting on NFS */
+		if (t->state == TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
+			check_hung_task(t, now);
+	} while_each_thread(g, t);
+ unlock:
+	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+}
+
+static void update_poll_jiffies(void)
+{
+	/* timeout of 0 will disable the watchdog */
+	if (sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs == 0)
+		hung_task_poll_jiffies = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
+	else
+		hung_task_poll_jiffies = sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs * HZ / 2;
+}
+
+/*
+ * 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;
+
+	update_poll_jiffies();
+
+	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);
+	update_poll_jiffies();
+
+	for ( ; ; ) {
+		while (schedule_timeout_interruptible(hung_task_poll_jiffies));
+		check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks();
+	}
+
+	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);