linux-kernel - [3.0-rc3] tree RCU boost vs hang notifier...

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:02:24 +0800
From:	Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@...il.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [3.0-rc3] tree RCU boost vs hang notifier...

With 3.0-rc3 configured with CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, CONFIG_RCU_BOOST
and CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK, we see frequent task hung reports [1],
possibly as the tree RCU boost kthreads sleep uninterruptably.

It looks like tinyRCU sleeps interruptably, so won't trigger the hangcheck.

Thanks,
  Daniel

--- [1]

INFO: task rcub0:9 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
rcub0           D ffffffff81c29c80  6768     9      2 0x00000000
 ffff880221713ea0 0000000000000046 ffff880221713db0 ffffffff8171b825
 ffff880221712000 0000000000004000 ffff8802214d0000 ffff88022170c060
 ffff88022ec00000 0000000000010ac0 0000000000000001 ffff88022ec10ac0
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8171b825>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x75/0x80
 [<ffffffff8171822a>] ? preempt_schedule+0x3a/0x50
 [<ffffffff8171b825>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x75/0x80
 [<ffffffff810cec90>] ? rcu_boost+0x120/0x120
 [<ffffffff8107e1a3>] kthread+0x93/0xc0
 [<ffffffff81098bad>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x13d/0x180
 [<ffffffff8171d4d4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
 [<ffffffff81048ad7>] ? finish_task_switch+0x77/0x100
 [<ffffffff8171bc04>] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe
 [<ffffffff8107e110>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70
 [<ffffffff8171d4d0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
no locks held by rcub0/9.

-- 
Daniel J Blueman
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