Inspired by mutex blocker tracking[1], this patch makes a trade-off to balance the overhead and utility of the hung task detector. Unlike mutexes, semaphores lack explicit ownership tracking, making it challenging to identify the root cause of hangs. To address this, we introduce a last_holder field to the semaphore structure, which is updated when a task successfully calls down() and cleared during up(). The assumption is that if a task is blocked on a semaphore, the holders must not have released it. While this does not guarantee that the last holder is one of the current blockers, it likely provides a practical hint for diagnosing semaphore-related stalls. With this change, the hung task detector can now show blocker task's info like below: [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] INFO: task cat:945 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] Tainted: G E 6.14.0-rc6+ #1 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] task:cat state:D stack:0 pid:945 tgid:945 ppid:828 task_flags:0x400000 flags:0x00000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] Call Trace: [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] <TASK> [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] __schedule+0x491/0xbd0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] schedule+0x27/0xf0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] schedule_timeout+0xe3/0xf0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? __folio_mod_stat+0x2a/0x80 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? set_ptes.constprop.0+0x27/0x90 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] __down_common+0x155/0x280 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] down+0x53/0x70 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] read_dummy_semaphore+0x23/0x60 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] full_proxy_read+0x5f/0xa0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] vfs_read+0xbc/0x350 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? __count_memcg_events+0xa5/0x140 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? count_memcg_events.constprop.0+0x1a/0x30 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? handle_mm_fault+0x180/0x260 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ksys_read+0x66/0xe0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] do_syscall_64+0x51/0x120 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RIP: 0033:0x7f419478f46e [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RSP: 002b:00007fff1c4d2668 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007f419478f46e [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007f4194683000 RDI: 0000000000000003 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RBP: 00007f4194683000 R08: 00007f4194682010 R09: 0000000000000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] R10: fffffffffffffbc5 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] </TASK> [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] INFO: task cat:945 blocked on a semaphore likely last held by task cat:938 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] task:cat state:S stack:0 pid:938 tgid:938 ppid:584 task_flags:0x400000 flags:0x00000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] Call Trace: [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] <TASK> [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] __schedule+0x491/0xbd0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xe/0x40 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] schedule+0x27/0xf0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] schedule_timeout+0x77/0xf0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] msleep_interruptible+0x49/0x60 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] read_dummy_semaphore+0x2d/0x60 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] full_proxy_read+0x5f/0xa0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] vfs_read+0xbc/0x350 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? __count_memcg_events+0xa5/0x140 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? count_memcg_events.constprop.0+0x1a/0x30 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? handle_mm_fault+0x180/0x260 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ksys_read+0x66/0xe0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] do_syscall_64+0x51/0x120 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RIP: 0033:0x7f7c584a646e [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RSP: 002b:00007ffdba8ce158 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007f7c584a646e [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007f7c5839a000 RDI: 0000000000000003 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RBP: 00007f7c5839a000 R08: 00007f7c58399010 R09: 0000000000000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] R10: fffffffffffffbc5 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] </TASK> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/174046694331.2194069.15472952050240807469.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250414145945.84916-3-ioworker0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mingzhe Yang <mingzhe.yang@ly.com> Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yongliang Gao <leonylgao@tencent.com> Cc: Zi Li <amaindex@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to semaphore", v5. Inspired by mutex blocker tracking[1], this patch series extend the feature to not only dump the blocker task holding a mutex but also to support semaphores. Unlike mutexes, semaphores lack explicit ownership tracking, making it challenging to identify the root cause of hangs. To address this, we introduce a last_holder field to the semaphore structure, which is updated when a task successfully calls down() and cleared during up(). The assumption is that if a task is blocked on a semaphore, the holders must not have released it. While this does not guarantee that the last holder is one of the current blockers, it likely provides a practical hint for diagnosing semaphore-related stalls. With this change, the hung task detector can now show blocker task's info like below: [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] INFO: task cat:945 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] Tainted: G E 6.14.0-rc6+ #1 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] task:cat state:D stack:0 pid:945 tgid:945 ppid:828 task_flags:0x400000 flags:0x00000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] Call Trace: [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] <TASK> [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] __schedule+0x491/0xbd0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] schedule+0x27/0xf0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] schedule_timeout+0xe3/0xf0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? __folio_mod_stat+0x2a/0x80 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? set_ptes.constprop.0+0x27/0x90 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] __down_common+0x155/0x280 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] down+0x53/0x70 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] read_dummy_semaphore+0x23/0x60 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] full_proxy_read+0x5f/0xa0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] vfs_read+0xbc/0x350 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? __count_memcg_events+0xa5/0x140 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? count_memcg_events.constprop.0+0x1a/0x30 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? handle_mm_fault+0x180/0x260 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ksys_read+0x66/0xe0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] do_syscall_64+0x51/0x120 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RIP: 0033:0x7f419478f46e [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RSP: 002b:00007fff1c4d2668 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007f419478f46e [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007f4194683000 RDI: 0000000000000003 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RBP: 00007f4194683000 R08: 00007f4194682010 R09: 0000000000000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] R10: fffffffffffffbc5 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] </TASK> [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] INFO: task cat:945 blocked on a semaphore likely last held by task cat:938 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] task:cat state:S stack:0 pid:938 tgid:938 ppid:584 task_flags:0x400000 flags:0x00000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] Call Trace: [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] <TASK> [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] __schedule+0x491/0xbd0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xe/0x40 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] schedule+0x27/0xf0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] schedule_timeout+0x77/0xf0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] msleep_interruptible+0x49/0x60 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] read_dummy_semaphore+0x2d/0x60 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] full_proxy_read+0x5f/0xa0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] vfs_read+0xbc/0x350 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? __count_memcg_events+0xa5/0x140 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? count_memcg_events.constprop.0+0x1a/0x30 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ? handle_mm_fault+0x180/0x260 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] ksys_read+0x66/0xe0 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] do_syscall_64+0x51/0x120 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RIP: 0033:0x7f7c584a646e [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RSP: 002b:00007ffdba8ce158 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007f7c584a646e [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007f7c5839a000 RDI: 0000000000000003 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] RBP: 00007f7c5839a000 R08: 00007f7c58399010 R09: 0000000000000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] R10: fffffffffffffbc5 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000 [Tue Apr 8 12:19:07 2025] </TASK> This patch (of 3): This patch replaces 'struct mutex *blocker_mutex' with 'unsigned long blocker', as only one blocker is active at a time. The blocker filed can store both the lock addrees and the lock type, with LSB used to encode the type as Masami suggested, making it easier to extend the feature to cover other types of locks. Also, once the lock type is determined, we can directly extract the address and cast it to a lock pointer ;) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250414145945.84916-1-ioworker0@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/174046694331.2194069.15472952050240807469.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250414145945.84916-2-ioworker0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mingzhe Yang <mingzhe.yang@ly.com> Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yongliang Gao <leonylgao@tencent.com> Cc: Zi Li <amaindex@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "hung_task: Dump the blocking task stacktrace", v4.
The hung_task detector is very useful for detecting the lockup. However,
since it only dumps the blocked (uninterruptible sleep) processes, it is
not enough to identify the root cause of that lockup.
For example, if a process holds a mutex and sleep an event in
interruptible state long time, the other processes will wait on the mutex
in uninterruptible state. In this case, the waiter processes are dumped,
but the blocker process is not shown because it is sleep in interruptible
state.
This adds a feature to dump the blocker task which holds a mutex
when detecting a hung task. e.g.
INFO: task cat:115 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3-00003-ga8946be3de00 #156
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:cat state:D stack:13432 pid:115 tgid:115 ppid:106 task_flags:0x400100 flags:0x00000002
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__schedule+0x731/0x960
? schedule_preempt_disabled+0x54/0xa0
schedule+0xb7/0x140
? __mutex_lock+0x51b/0xa60
? __mutex_lock+0x51b/0xa60
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x54/0xa0
__mutex_lock+0x51b/0xa60
read_dummy+0x23/0x70
full_proxy_read+0x6a/0xc0
vfs_read+0xc2/0x340
? __pfx_direct_file_splice_eof+0x10/0x10
? do_sendfile+0x1bd/0x2e0
ksys_read+0x76/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xe3/0x1c0
? exc_page_fault+0xa9/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x4840cd
RSP: 002b:00007ffe99071828 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00000000004840cd
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007ffe99071870 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffe99071870 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000001000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000001000
R13: 00000000132fd3a0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffffffffffff
</TASK>
INFO: task cat:115 is blocked on a mutex likely owned by task cat:114.
task:cat state:S stack:13432 pid:114 tgid:114 ppid:106 task_flags:0x400100 flags:0x00000002
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__schedule+0x731/0x960
? schedule_timeout+0xa8/0x120
schedule+0xb7/0x140
schedule_timeout+0xa8/0x120
? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10
msleep_interruptible+0x3e/0x60
read_dummy+0x2d/0x70
full_proxy_read+0x6a/0xc0
vfs_read+0xc2/0x340
? __pfx_direct_file_splice_eof+0x10/0x10
? do_sendfile+0x1bd/0x2e0
ksys_read+0x76/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xe3/0x1c0
? exc_page_fault+0xa9/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x4840cd
RSP: 002b:00007ffe3e0147b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00000000004840cd
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007ffe3e014800 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffe3e014800 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000001000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000001000
R13: 000000001a0a93a0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffffffffffff
</TASK>
TBD: We can extend this feature to cover other locks like rwsem and
rt_mutex, but rwsem requires to dump all the tasks which acquire and wait
that rwsem. We can follow the waiter link but the output will be a bit
different compared with mutex case.
This patch (of 2):
The "hung_task" shows a long-time uninterruptible slept task, but most
often, it's blocked on a mutex acquired by another task. Without dumping
such a task, investigating the root cause of the hung task problem is very
difficult.
This introduce task_struct::blocker_mutex to point the mutex lock which
this task is waiting for. Since the mutex has "owner" information, we can
find the owner task and dump it with hung tasks.
Note: the owner can be changed while dumping the owner task, so
this is "likely" the owner of the mutex.
With this change, the hung task shows blocker task's info like below;
INFO: task cat:115 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3-00003-ga8946be3de00 #156
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:cat state:D stack:13432 pid:115 tgid:115 ppid:106 task_flags:0x400100 flags:0x00000002
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__schedule+0x731/0x960
? schedule_preempt_disabled+0x54/0xa0
schedule+0xb7/0x140
? __mutex_lock+0x51b/0xa60
? __mutex_lock+0x51b/0xa60
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x54/0xa0
__mutex_lock+0x51b/0xa60
read_dummy+0x23/0x70
full_proxy_read+0x6a/0xc0
vfs_read+0xc2/0x340
? __pfx_direct_file_splice_eof+0x10/0x10
? do_sendfile+0x1bd/0x2e0
ksys_read+0x76/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xe3/0x1c0
? exc_page_fault+0xa9/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x4840cd
RSP: 002b:00007ffe99071828 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00000000004840cd
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007ffe99071870 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffe99071870 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000001000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000001000
R13: 00000000132fd3a0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffffffffffff
</TASK>
INFO: task cat:115 is blocked on a mutex likely owned by task cat:114.
task:cat state:S stack:13432 pid:114 tgid:114 ppid:106 task_flags:0x400100 flags:0x00000002
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__schedule+0x731/0x960
? schedule_timeout+0xa8/0x120
schedule+0xb7/0x140
schedule_timeout+0xa8/0x120
? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10
msleep_interruptible+0x3e/0x60
read_dummy+0x2d/0x70
full_proxy_read+0x6a/0xc0
vfs_read+0xc2/0x340
? __pfx_direct_file_splice_eof+0x10/0x10
? do_sendfile+0x1bd/0x2e0
ksys_read+0x76/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xe3/0x1c0
? exc_page_fault+0xa9/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x4840cd
RSP: 002b:00007ffe3e0147b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00000000004840cd
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007ffe3e014800 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffe3e014800 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000001000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000001000
R13: 000000001a0a93a0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffffffffffff
</TASK>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: implement debug_show_blocker() in C rather than in CPP]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/174046694331.2194069.15472952050240807469.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/174046695384.2194069.16796289525958195643.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yongliang Gao <leonylgao@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.
Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.
Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
virtual patch
@
depends on !(file in "net")
disable optional_qualifier
@
identifier table_name != {
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
iwcm_ctl_table,
ucma_ctl_table,
memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table
};
@@
+ const
struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };
sed:
sed --in-place \
-e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \
kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Resending this patch as I haven't received feedback on my initial submission https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241204182953.10854-1-oxana@cloudflare.com/ For the processes which are terminated abnormally the kernel can provide a coredump if enabled. When the coredump is performed, the process and all its threads are put into the D state (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_FREEZABLE). On the other hand, we have kernel thread khungtaskd which monitors the processes in the D state. If the task stuck in the D state more than kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs, the hung_task alert appears in the kernel log. The higher memory usage of a process, the longer it takes to create coredump, the longer tasks are in the D state. We have hung_task alerts for the processes with memory usage above 10Gb. Although, our kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs is 10 sec when the default is 120 sec. Adding additional information to the log that the task is blocked by coredump will help with monitoring. Another approach might be to completely filter out alerts for such tasks, but in that case we would lose transparency about what is putting pressure on some system resources, e.g. we saw an increase in I/O when coredump occurs due its writing to disk. Additionally, it would be helpful to have task_struct->flags in the log from the function sched_show_task(). Currently it prints task_struct->thread_info->flags, this seems misleading as the line starts with "task:xxxx". [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk control string] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110160328.64947-1-oxana@cloudflare.com Signed-off-by: Oxana Kharitonova <oxana@cloudflare.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "add detect count for hung tasks", v2. This patchset adds a counter, hung_task_detect_count, to track the number of times hung tasks are detected. IHMO, hung tasks are a critical metric. Currently, we detect them by periodically parsing dmesg. However, this method isn't as user-friendly as using a counter. Sometimes, a short-lived issue with NIC or hard drive can quickly decrease the hung_task_warnings to zero. Without warnings, we must directly access the node to ensure that there are no more hung tasks and that the system has recovered. After all, load average alone cannot provide a clear picture. Once this counter is in place, in a high-density deployment pattern, we plan to set hung_task_timeout_secs to a lower number to improve stability, even though this might result in false positives. And then we can set a time-based threshold: if hung tasks last beyond this duration, we will automatically migrate containers to other nodes. Based on past experience, this approach could help avoid many production disruptions. Moreover, just like other important events such as OOM that already have counters, having a dedicated counter for hung tasks makes sense ;) This patch (of 2): This commit adds a counter, hung_task_detect_count, to track the number of times hung tasks are detected. IHMO, hung tasks are a critical metric. Currently, we detect them by periodically parsing dmesg. However, this method isn't as user-friendly as using a counter. Sometimes, a short-lived issue with NIC or hard drive can quickly decrease the hung_task_warnings to zero. Without warnings, we must directly access the node to ensure that there are no more hung tasks and that the system has recovered. After all, load average alone cannot provide a clear picture. Once this counter is in place, in a high-density deployment pattern, we plan to set hung_task_timeout_secs to a lower number to improve stability, even though this might result in false positives. And then we can set a time-based threshold: if hung tasks last beyond this duration, we will automatically migrate containers to other nodes. Based on past experience, this approach could help avoid many production disruptions. Moreover, just like other important events such as OOM that already have counters, having a dedicated counter for hung tasks makes sense. [ioworker0@gmail.com: proc_doulongvec_minmax instead of proc_dointvec] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241101114833.8377-1-ioworker0@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241027120747.42833-1-ioworker0@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241027120747.42833-2-ioworker0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mingzhe Yang <mingzhe.yang@ly.com> Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Bang Li <libang.li@antgroup.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Huang Cun <cunhuang@tencent.com> Cc: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com> Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Cc: John Siddle <jsiddle@redhat.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Cc: Yongliang Gao <leonylgao@tencent.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.
This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:
```
virtual patch
@r1@
identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
@r2@
identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{ ... }
@r3@
identifier func;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r4@
identifier func, ctl;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r5@
identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
```
* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
adjusted.
* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
proc_handler migration.
Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
If hung_task_panic is enabled, don't consider the value of hung_task_warnings and display the information of the hung tasks. In some cases, hung_task_panic might not be initially set up, after several hung tasks occur, the hung_task_warnings count reaches zero. If hung_task_panic is set up later, it may not display any helpful hung task info in dmesg, only showing messages like: Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks CPU: 3 PID: 58 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted 6.10.0-rc3 #19 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) Call Trace: <TASK> panic+0x2f3/0x320 watchdog+0x2dd/0x510 ? __pfx_watchdog+0x10/0x10 kthread+0xe0/0x110 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x40 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240613033159.3446265-1-leonylgao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Yongliang Gao <leonylgao@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Huang Cun <cunhuang@tencent.com> Cc: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com> Cc: John Siddle <jsiddle@redhat.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link : https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/) Remove the sentinel from ctl_table arrays. Reduce by one the values used to compare the size of the adjusted arrays. Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
needed for thread_with_file; also rare but not unheard of to need this in module code, when blocking on user input. one workaround used by some code is wait_event_interruptible() - but that can be buggy if the outer context isn't expecting unwinding. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: fuyuanli <fuyuanli@didiglobal.com>