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 18:47:19 +0000 (19:47 +0100)
commit9c8939b03bac0e455bee792caadfbdb777f76cf3
tree336ef615b0629539791099212fb7e5e23178b688
parentd69ad39ad5d33b26efbbb50adb825849622f1d88
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