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2008-01-25sched: sched_rt_entityPeter Zijlstra
Move the task_struct members specific to rt scheduling together. A future optimization could be to put sched_entity and sched_rt_entity into a union. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25uids: merge multiple error paths in alloc_uid() into onePavel Emelyanov
There are already 4 error paths in alloc_uid() that do incremental rollbacks. I think it's time to merge them. This costs us 8 lines of code :) Maybe it would be better to merge this patch with the previous one, but I remember that some time ago I sent a similar patch (fixing the error path and cleaning it), but I was told to make two patches in such cases. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: dynamically update the root-domain span/online mapsGregory Haskins
The baseline code statically builds the span maps when the domain is formed. Previous attempts at dynamically updating the maps caused a suspend-to-ram regression, which should now be fixed. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> CC: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25Preempt-RCU: CPU Hotplug handlingPaul E. McKenney
This patch allows preemptible RCU to tolerate CPU-hotplug operations. It accomplishes this by maintaining a local copy of a map of online CPUs, which it accesses under its own lock. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25Preempt-RCU: implementationPaul E. McKenney
This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details of this implementation can be found in this paper - http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf and the article- http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/ This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of RCU don't disable preemption. As a consequence of keeping track of RCU readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper). This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations and can be switched to at compiler. Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ] Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25Preempt-RCU: fix rcu_barrier for preemptive environment.Paul E. McKenney
Fix rcu_barrier() to work properly in preemptive kernel environment. Also, the ordering of callback must be preserved while moving callbacks to another CPU during CPU hotplug. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25Preempt-RCU: reorganize RCU code into rcuclassic.c and rcupdate.cPaul E. McKenney
This patch re-organizes the RCU code to enable multiple implementations of RCU. Users of RCU continues to include rcupdate.h and the RCU interfaces remain the same. This is in preparation for subsequently merging the preemptible RCU implementation. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25Preempt-RCU: Use softirq instead of tasklets forDipankar Sarma
This patch makes RCU use softirq instead of tasklets. It also adds a memory barrier after raising the softirq inorder to ensure that the cpu sees the most recently updated value of rcu->cur while processing callbacks. The discussion of the related theoretical race pointed out by James Huang can be found here --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/20/603 Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: remove some old cpuset logicGregory Haskins
We had support for overlapping cpuset based rto logic in early prototypes that is no longer used, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: RT-balance, only adjust overload state when changingGregory Haskins
The overload set/clears were originally idempotent when this logic was first implemented. But that is no longer true due to the addition of the atomic counter and this logic was never updated to work properly with that change. So only adjust the overload state if it is actually changing to avoid getting out of sync. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: RT-balance, add new methods to sched_classSteven Rostedt
Dmitry Adamushko found that the current implementation of the RT balancing code left out changes to the sched_setscheduler and rt_mutex_setprio. This patch addresses this issue by adding methods to the schedule classes to handle being switched out of (switched_from) and being switched into (switched_to) a sched_class. Also a method for changing of priorities is also added (prio_changed). This patch also removes some duplicate logic between rt_mutex_setprio and sched_setscheduler. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: RT-balance, replace hooks with pre/post schedule and wakeup methodsSteven Rostedt
To make the main sched.c code more agnostic to the schedule classes. Instead of having specific hooks in the schedule code for the RT class balancing. They are replaced with a pre_schedule, post_schedule and task_wake_up methods. These methods may be used by any of the classes but currently, only the sched_rt class implements them. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: remove do_div() from __sched_slice()Peter Zijlstra
Yanmin Zhang noticed a nice optimization: p = l * nr / nl, nl = l/g -> p = g * nr which eliminates a do_div() from __sched_period(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: get rid of 'new_cpu' in try_to_wake_up()Dmitry Adamushko
Clean-up try_to_wake_up(). Get rid of the 'new_cpu' variable in try_to_wake_up() [ that's, one #ifdef section less ]. Also remove a few redundant blank lines. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: no need for 'affine wakeup' balancingDmitry Adamushko
No need to do a check for 'affine wakeup and passive balancing possibilities' in select_task_rq_fair() when task_cpu(p) == this_cpu. I guess, this part got missed upon introduction of per-sched_class select_task_rq() in try_to_wake_up(). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: add credits for RT balancing improvementsIngo Molnar
add credits for RT balancing improvements. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: style cleanup, #2Ingo Molnar
style cleanup of various changes that were done recently. no code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 26399 2578 48 29025 7161 sched.o.before 26399 2578 48 29025 7161 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: remove unused JIFFIES_TO_NS() macroIngo Molnar
remove unused JIFFIES_TO_NS() macro. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: fix sched_rt.c:join/leave_domainIngo Molnar
fix build bug in sched_rt.c:join/leave_domain and make them only be included on SMP builds. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: only balance our RT tasks within our domainGregory Haskins
We move the rt-overload data as the first global to per-domain reclassification. This limits the scope of overload related cache-line bouncing to stay with a specified partition instead of affecting all cpus in the system. Finally, we limit the scope of find_lowest_cpu searches to the domain instead of the entire system. Note that we would always respect domain boundaries even without this patch, but we first would scan potentially all cpus before whittling the list down. Now we can avoid looking at RQs that are out of scope, again reducing cache-line hits. Note: In some cases, task->cpus_allowed will effectively reduce our search to within our domain. However, I believe there are cases where the cpus_allowed mask may be all ones and therefore we err on the side of caution. If it can be optimized later, so be it. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: add sched-domain rootsGregory Haskins
We add the notion of a root-domain which will be used later to rescope global variables to per-domain variables. Each exclusive cpuset essentially defines an island domain by fully partitioning the member cpus from any other cpuset. However, we currently still maintain some policy/state as global variables which transcend all cpusets. Consider, for instance, rt-overload state. Whenever a new exclusive cpuset is created, we also create a new root-domain object and move each cpu member to the root-domain's span. By default the system creates a single root-domain with all cpus as members (mimicking the global state we have today). We add some plumbing for storing class specific data in our root-domain. Whenever a RQ is switching root-domains (because of repartitioning) we give each sched_class the opportunity to remove any state from its old domain and add state to the new one. This logic doesn't have any clients yet but it will later in the series. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> CC: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> CC: Simon Derr <simon.derr@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: clean up schedule_balance_rt()Ingo Molnar
clean up schedule_balance_rt(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: clean up pull_rt_task()Ingo Molnar
clean up pull_rt_task(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: remove leftover debuggingIngo Molnar
remove leftover debugging. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: remove rt_overload()Ingo Molnar
remove rt_overload() - it's an unnecessary indirection. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: clean up kernel/sched_rt.cIngo Molnar
clean up whitespace damage and missing comments in kernel/sched_rt.c. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: clean up overlong line in kernel/sched_debug.cIngo Molnar
clean up overlong line in kernel/sched_debug.c. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: clean up find_lock_lowest_rq()Ingo Molnar
clean up find_lock_lowest_rq(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: clean up pick_next_highest_task_rt()Ingo Molnar
clean up pick_next_highest_task_rt(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: RT-balance on new taskSteven Rostedt
rt-balance when creating new tasks. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: RT-balance, optimize cpu searchSteven Rostedt
This patch removes several cpumask operations by keeping track of the first of the CPUS that is of the lowest priority. When the search for the lowest priority runqueue is completed, all the bits up to the first CPU with the lowest priority runqueue is cleared. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: RT-balance, optimizeGregory Haskins
We can cheaply track the number of bits set in the cpumask for the lowest priority CPUs. Therefore, compute the mask's weight and use it to skip the optimal domain search logic when there is only one CPU available. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: break out early if RT task cannot be migratedGregory Haskins
We don't need to bother searching if the task cannot be migrated Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: RT-balance, avoid overloadingSteven Rostedt
This patch changes the searching for a run queue by a waking RT task to try to pick another runqueue if the currently running task is an RT task. The reason is that RT tasks behave different than normal tasks. Preempting a normal task to run a RT task to keep its cache hot is fine, because the preempted non-RT task may wait on that same runqueue to run again unless the migration thread comes along and pulls it off. RT tasks behave differently. If one is preempted, it makes an active effort to continue to run. So by having a high priority task preempt a lower priority RT task, that lower RT task will then quickly try to run on another runqueue. This will cause that lower RT task to replace its nice hot cache (and TLB) with a completely cold one. This is for the hope that the new high priority RT task will keep its cache hot. Remeber that this high priority RT task was just woken up. So it may likely have been sleeping for several milliseconds, and will end up with a cold cache anyway. RT tasks run till they voluntarily stop, or are preempted by a higher priority task. This means that it is unlikely that the woken RT task will have a hot cache to wake up to. So pushing off a lower RT task is just killing its cache for no good reason. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: wake-balance fixesGregory Haskins
We have logic to detect whether the system has migratable tasks, but we are not using it when deciding whether to push tasks away. So we add support for considering this new information. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: optimize RT affinityGregory Haskins
The current code base assumes a relatively flat CPU/core topology and will route RT tasks to any CPU fairly equally. In the real world, there are various toplogies and affinities that govern where a task is best suited to run with the smallest amount of overhead. NUMA and multi-core CPUs are prime examples of topologies that can impact cache performance. Fortunately, linux is already structured to represent these topologies via the sched_domains interface. So we change our RT router to consult a combination of topology and affinity policy to best place tasks during migration. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: pre-route RT tasks on wakeupGregory Haskins
In the original patch series that Steven Rostedt and I worked on together, we both took different approaches to low-priority wakeup path. I utilized "pre-routing" (push the task away to a less important RQ before activating) approach, while Steve utilized a "post-routing" approach. The advantage of my approach is that you avoid the overhead of a wasted activate/deactivate cycle and peripherally related burdens. The advantage of Steve's method is that it neatly solves an issue preventing a "pull" optimization from being deployed. In the end, we ended up deploying Steve's idea. But it later dawned on me that we could get the best of both worlds by deploying both ideas together, albeit slightly modified. The idea is simple: Use a "light-weight" lookup for pre-routing, since we only need to approximate a good home for the task. And we also retain the post-routing push logic to clean up any inaccuracies caused by a condition of "priority mistargeting" caused by the lightweight lookup. Most of the time, the pre-routing should work and yield lower overhead. In the cases where it doesnt, the post-router will bat cleanup. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: RT balancing: include current CPUGregory Haskins
It doesn't hurt if we allow the current CPU to be included in the search. We will just simply skip it later if the current CPU turns out to be the lowest. We will use this later in the series Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: break out search for RT tasksGregory Haskins
Isolate the search logic into a function so that it can be used later in places other than find_locked_lowest_rq(). Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: de-SCHED_OTHER-ize the RT pathGregory Haskins
The current wake-up code path tries to determine if it can optimize the wake-up to "this_cpu" by computing load calculations. The problem is that these calculations are only relevant to SCHED_OTHER tasks where load is king. For RT tasks, priority is king. So the load calculation is completely wasted bandwidth. Therefore, we create a new sched_class interface to help with pre-wakeup routing decisions and move the load calculation as a function of CFS task's class. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: clean up this_rq use in kernel/sched_rt.cGregory Haskins
"this_rq" is normally used to denote the RQ on the current cpu (i.e. "cpu_rq(this_cpu)"). So clean up the usage of this_rq to be more consistent with the rest of the code. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: add RT-balance cpu-weightGregory Haskins
Some RT tasks (particularly kthreads) are bound to one specific CPU. It is fairly common for two or more bound tasks to get queued up at the same time. Consider, for instance, softirq_timer and softirq_sched. A timer goes off in an ISR which schedules softirq_thread to run at RT50. Then the timer handler determines that it's time to smp-rebalance the system so it schedules softirq_sched to run. So we are in a situation where we have two RT50 tasks queued, and the system will go into rt-overload condition to request other CPUs for help. This causes two problems in the current code: 1) If a high-priority bound task and a low-priority unbounded task queue up behind the running task, we will fail to ever relocate the unbounded task because we terminate the search on the first unmovable task. 2) We spend precious futile cycles in the fast-path trying to pull overloaded tasks over. It is therefore optimial to strive to avoid the overhead all together if we can cheaply detect the condition before overload even occurs. This patch tries to achieve this optimization by utilizing the hamming weight of the task->cpus_allowed mask. A weight of 1 indicates that the task cannot be migrated. We will then utilize this information to skip non-migratable tasks and to eliminate uncessary rebalance attempts. We introduce a per-rq variable to count the number of migratable tasks that are currently running. We only go into overload if we have more than one rt task, AND at least one of them is migratable. In addition, we introduce a per-task variable to cache the cpus_allowed weight, since the hamming calculation is probably relatively expensive. We only update the cached value when the mask is updated which should be relatively infrequent, especially compared to scheduling frequency in the fast path. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: disable standard balancer for RT tasksSteven Rostedt
Since we now take an active approach to load balancing, we don't need to balance RT tasks via the normal task balancer. In fact, this code was found to pull RT tasks away from CPUS that the active movement performed, resulting in large latencies. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: push RT tasks from overloaded CPUsSteven Rostedt
This patch adds pushing of overloaded RT tasks from a runqueue that is having tasks (most likely RT tasks) added to the run queue. TODO: We don't cover the case of waking of new RT tasks (yet). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: pull RT tasks from overloaded runqueuesSteven Rostedt
This patch adds the algorithm to pull tasks from RT overloaded runqueues. When a pull RT is initiated, all overloaded runqueues are examined for a RT task that is higher in prio than the highest prio task queued on the target runqueue. If another runqueue holds a RT task that is of higher prio than the highest prio task on the target runqueue is found it is pulled to the target runqueue. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: add rt-overload trackingSteven Rostedt
This patch adds an RT overload accounting system. When a runqueue has more than one RT task queued, it is marked as overloaded. That is that it is a candidate to have RT tasks pulled from it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: add RT task pushingSteven Rostedt
This patch adds an algorithm to push extra RT tasks off a run queue to other CPU runqueues. When more than one RT task is added to a run queue, this algorithm takes an assertive approach to push the RT tasks that are not running onto other run queues that have lower priority. The way this works is that the highest RT task that is not running is looked at and we examine the runqueues on the CPUS for that tasks affinity mask. We find the runqueue with the lowest prio in the CPU affinity of the picked task, and if it is lower in prio than the picked task, we push the task onto that CPU runqueue. We continue pushing RT tasks off the current runqueue until we don't push any more. The algorithm stops when the next highest RT task can't preempt any other processes on other CPUS. TODO: The algorithm may stop when there are still RT tasks that can be migrated. Specifically, if the highest non running RT task CPU affinity is restricted to CPUs that are running higher priority tasks, there may be a lower priority task queued that has an affinity with a CPU that is running a lower priority task that it could be migrated to. This patch set does not address this issue. Note: checkpatch reveals two over 80 character instances. I'm not sure that breaking them up will help visually, so I left them as is. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: track highest prio task queuedSteven Rostedt
This patch adds accounting to each runqueue to keep track of the highest prio task queued on the run queue. We only care about RT tasks, so if the run queue does not contain any active RT tasks its priority will be considered MAX_RT_PRIO. This information will be used for later patches. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25sched: count # of queued RT tasksSteven Rostedt
This patch adds accounting to keep track of the number of RT tasks running on a runqueue. This information will be used in later patches. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25softlockup: automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasksIngo Molnar
this patch extends the soft-lockup detector to automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks. Such hung tasks are printed the following way: ------------------> INFO: task prctl:3042 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message prctl D fd5e3793 0 3042 2997 f6050f38 00000046 00000001 fd5e3793 00000009 c06d8264 c06dae80 00000286 f6050f40 f6050f00 f7d34d90 f7d34fc8 c1e1be80 00000001 f6050000 00000000 f7e92d00 00000286 f6050f18 c0489d1a f6050f40 00006605 00000000 c0133a5b Call Trace: [<c04883a5>] schedule_timeout+0x6d/0x8b [<c04883d8>] schedule_timeout_uninterruptible+0x15/0x17 [<c0133a76>] msleep+0x10/0x16 [<c0138974>] sys_prctl+0x30/0x1e2 [<c0104c52>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0xa5 ======================= 2 locks held by prctl/3042: #0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#5){--..}, at: [<c0197d11>] do_fsync+0x38/0x7a #1: (jbd_handle){--..}, at: [<c01ca3d2>] journal_start+0xc7/0xe9 <------------------ the current default timeout is 120 seconds. Such messages are printed up to 10 times per bootup. If the system has crashed already then the messages are not printed. if lockdep is enabled then all held locks are printed as well. this feature is a natural extension to the softlockup-detector (kernel locked up without scheduling) and to the NMI watchdog (kernel locked up with IRQs disabled). [ Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>: CPU hotplug fixes. ] [ Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: build warning fix. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>