From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
rcu@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kfence: Avoid stalling work queue task without allocations
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:57:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201113175754.GA6273@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201112175406.GF3249@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72>
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 09:54:06AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 05:14:39PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
[ . . . ]
> > | [ 334.160218] BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 15s!
>
> It might be instructive to cause this code to provoke a backtrace.
> I suggest adding something like "trigger_single_cpu_backtrace(cpu)"
> in kernel/workqueue.c's function named wq_watchdog_timer_fn()
> somewhere within its "if" statement that is preceded with the "did we
> stall?" comment. Or just search for "BUG: workqueue lockup - pool"
> within kernel/workqueue.c.
And I did get a small but unexpected gift of time, so here is an
(untested) patch.
Thanx, Paul
------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 437935e..f3d4ff7 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -5792,6 +5792,7 @@ static void wq_watchdog_timer_fn(struct timer_list *unused)
pr_cont_pool_info(pool);
pr_cont(" stuck for %us!\n",
jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies - pool_ts) / 1000);
+ trigger_single_cpu_backtrace(cpu);
}
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-13 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-10 13:53 [PATCH] kfence: Avoid stalling work queue task without allocations Marco Elver
2020-11-10 14:25 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-11-10 14:53 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 23:23 ` Anders Roxell
2020-11-11 8:29 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-11 13:38 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-11 18:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-11 18:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-11 18:34 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-11 19:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-11 20:21 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 0:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-12 12:49 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 16:14 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 17:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-12 18:12 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 20:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-13 11:06 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-13 17:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-13 17:57 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2020-11-17 10:52 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-17 18:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-18 22:56 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-18 23:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-19 12:53 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-19 15:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-19 17:02 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-19 18:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-19 19:38 ` linux-next: stall warnings and deadlock on Arm64 (was: [PATCH] kfence: Avoid stalling...) Marco Elver
2020-11-19 21:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-19 22:53 ` Will Deacon
2020-11-20 10:30 ` Mark Rutland
2020-11-20 14:03 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-23 19:32 ` Mark Rutland
2020-11-24 14:03 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-24 15:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-24 19:43 ` Mark Rutland
2020-11-24 20:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-24 19:30 ` Mark Rutland
2020-11-25 9:45 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-25 10:28 ` Mark Rutland
2020-11-20 14:19 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-20 14:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-20 15:22 ` Mark Rutland
2020-11-20 17:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-20 18:02 ` Mark Rutland
2020-11-20 18:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-20 15:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-20 18:17 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-20 18:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-20 19:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-20 19:22 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-20 19:27 ` [PATCH] kfence: Avoid stalling work queue task without allocations Steven Rostedt
2020-11-23 15:27 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-23 16:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-23 16:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-23 18:53 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-23 18:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-24 2:59 ` Boqun Feng
2020-11-24 3:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-11 18:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-11 15:01 ` Anders Roxell
2020-11-11 15:22 ` Marco Elver
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