linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel/hung_task.c: force ignore

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Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:02:07 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
To:     "Liu, Chuansheng" <chuansheng.liu@...el.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc:     "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "pmladek@...e.com" <pmladek@...e.com>,
        "sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com" <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        "rostedt@...dmis.org" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        "dvyukov@...gle.com" <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/hung_task.c: force ignore_loglevel before panic

On 2018/12/11 10:16, Liu, Chuansheng wrote:
> We may enhance it by:
> -       if (sysctl_hung_task_warnings) {
> +       if (sysctl_hung_task_panic || sysctl_hung_task_warnings) {
>                 if (sysctl_hung_task_warnings > 0)
>                         sysctl_hung_task_warnings--;

Why ignore sysctl_hung_task_warnings? The administrator can already
configure as sysctl_hung_task_warnings == -1 && sysctl_hung_task_panic == 1
if he/she does not want to suppress neither sched_show_task() nor
debug_show_all_locks()/trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(). Someone might want
that sysctl_hung_task_warnings == 0 (which is a request to suppress only
sched_show_task()) should not be ignored by sysctl_hung_task_panic == 1
(which is a request to trigger panic).