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 18:46:09 +0000 (19:46 +0100)
commit53015f1e04aceb34380118085581b0bc83a5bf22
tree876f13a986181716d48c8f696f518faa1b3868a5
parent0c15d464c84891fec9363041c4431b26c510caf9
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