linux-kernel - Re: [RT] Warning from swake_up_all

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Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:24:57 +0200
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>,
	RT <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RT] Warning from swake_up_all_locked in rt-4.4.4-rt11

On 03/30/2016 03:52 PM, Clark Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 12:22:51 +0200
> I'm seeing output like this with between 3 and 9 wakeups per kworker:
same here. And with

--- a/kernel/sched/swait.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/swait.c
@@ -32,17 +32,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(swake_up_locked);
 void swake_up_all_locked(struct swait_queue_head *q)
 {
        struct swait_queue *curr;
+       char comms[512];
        int wakes = 0;

+       comms[0] = '\0';
        while (!list_empty(&q->task_list)) {

                curr = list_first_entry(&q->task_list, typeof(*curr),
                                        task_list);
+               strcat(comms, curr->task->comm);
+               strcat(comms, " ");
                wake_up_process(curr->task);
                list_del_init(&curr->task_list);
                wakes++;
        }
-       WARN_ON(wakes > 2);
+       if (wakes > 2) {
+               pr_err("%s(%d) %d\n", __func__, __LINE__, wakes);
+               pr_err("%s(%d) %s\n", __func__, __LINE__, comms);
+       }
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(swake_up_all_locked);

you would see that it wakes other kworker :)

Sebastian