linux-kernel - Re: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK

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Message-ID: <20071202114152.3bf4332d@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Sun, 2 Dec 2007 11:41:52 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:59:45 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> 
> > Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> writes:
> > 
> > > this patch extends the soft-lockup detector to automatically
> > > detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks. Such hung tasks are
> > > printed the following way:
> > 
> > That will likely trigger anytime a hard nfs/cifs mount loses its 
> > server for 120s. To make this work you would need a new 
> > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE_EXTERNAL_EVENT or similar and mark all the
> > places which depend on those.
> 
> TASK_KILLABLE should be the right solution i think.

.. and it's even a tool to show where we missed making something
TASK_KILLABLE... anything that triggers from NFS and the like really
ought to be TASK_KILLABLE after all. This patch will point any
omissions out quite nicely without having to do any kind of destructive
testing.


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