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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 17:22:36 -0500
From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fuyuanli <fuyuanli@...iglobal.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/hung_task.c: export sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs
On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 02:13:24PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 02:09:35 -0500 Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev> wrote:
>
> > needed for thread_with_file; also rare but not unheard of to need this
> > in module code, when blocking on user input.
>
> I see no bcachefs code in linux-next which uses this. All I have to go
> with is the above explanation-free assertion. IOW this patch is
> unreviewable.
>
> > one workaround used by some code is wait_event_interruptible()
>
> examples?
fs/bcachefs/util.h kthread_wait_event(); we use that - among other
things - when the kthread is parked waiting for userspace to flip it on.
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE was the suggestion I got years ago, but I want to get
away from it because -
>
> > - but that can be buggy if the outer context isn't expecting unwinding.
>
> More explanation of this?
We're starting to think about this a bit more because of David Howell's
proposal; the idea is that perhaps TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE vs.
TASK_INTERURPTIBLE vs. TASK_KILLABLE should probably not be set at the
waiting context, it should be set at the outer context where we would
handle (or not handle) -ERESTARTSYS.
think mutex_lock() vs. mutex_lock_killable(); that is bubbling up the
context specification in an ad hoc way. This would regularize that.
I've also seen bugs where code was doing a fixed TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE and
the outer context wasn't expecting that - kthread creation does this.
>
> > --- a/kernel/hung_task.c
> > +++ b/kernel/hung_task.c
> > @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ static int __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_check_count = PID_MAX_LIMIT;
> > * Zero means infinite timeout - no checking done:
> > */
> > unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs = CONFIG_DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs);
>
> It seems strange that a module wouild want this. Makes one wonder what
> the heck is going on in there.
specifically, this is for thread_with_file, where we've got a kthread
hooked up to a file descriptor, effectively using it as both stdin and
stdout.
When the kthread reads from the fd, that can block for an unbounded
amount of time - we're waiting on userspace input and it's totally fine.
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