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kernel/hung_task.c: break RCU locks based on jiffies
authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Thu, 3 Jan 2019 23:26:31 +0000 (15:26 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:44:59 +0000 (19:44 +0100)
commit629e457d163b6b1ef80faeb4a5a145d4d05fc88c
tree36cbafb5222fa9294d091b3152fb6f6570bb2f14
parent683f5f8b386210bfb983d2d097313f64ab24e94f
kernel/hung_task.c: break RCU locks based on jiffies

[ Upstream commit 304ae42739b108305f8d7b3eb3c1aec7c2b643a9 ]

check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks() is currently calling rcu_lock_break()
for every 1024 threads.  But check_hung_task() is very slow if printk()
was called, and is very fast otherwise.

If many threads within some 1024 threads called printk(), the RCU grace
period might be extended enough to trigger RCU stall warnings.
Therefore, calling rcu_lock_break() for every some fixed jiffies will be
safer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1544800658-11423-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/hung_task.c