linux-kernel - Re: help needed in debugging missed wakeup(?)

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Date:   Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:27:54 +0100
From:   Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
To:     Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Subject: Re: help needed in debugging missed wakeup(?)

Hi,

On 20/03/20 20:04, Lucas Stach wrote:

[...]

> My hope was that someone would could guide me a little with an educated
> guess, to make those trace_printks more helpful. The lockup is hard to
> trigger and there's other unrelated system activity going on, even when
> the relevant user task is stuck, so randomly sprinkling debug
> statements will generate lots of output to filter down.

I'd start by enabling sched:sched_pi_setprio (or adding trace_printks
around there to confirm your suspicion). Once that is confirmed, I'd try
to look at update_curr_dl::throttle and verify if the misbehaving task
was indeed throttled at some point; it shouldn't be, because dl_boosted
flag should be set for it at this point (maybe check this condition as
well).

Best,

Juri