Re: [PATCH 6/7] psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO

From: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Oliver Yang <yangoliver@me.com>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>, xxx xxx <x.qendo@gmail.com>,
	Taras Kondratiuk <takondra@cisco.com>,
	Daniel Walker <danielwa@cisco.com>,
	Ruslan Ruslichenko <rruslich@cisco.com>,
	kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 18:49:25 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47beeaa6-74aa-35d0-2808-e5c54be854a6@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180523131747.GA4086@cmpxchg.org>

On 5/23/2018 6:47 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 04:33:24PM +0530, Vinayak Menon wrote:
>> On 5/8/2018 2:31 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>>> +	/* Kick the stats aggregation worker if it's gone to sleep */
>>> +	if (!delayed_work_pending(&group->clock_work))
>> This causes a crash when the work is scheduled before system_wq is up. In my case when the first
>> schedule was called from kthreadd. And I had to do this to make it work.
>> if (keventd_up() && !delayed_work_pending(&group->clock_work))
>>
>>> +		schedule_delayed_work(&group->clock_work, MY_LOAD_FREQ);
> I was trying to figure out how this is possible, and it didn't make
> sense because we do initialize the system_wq way before kthreadd.
>
> Did you by any chance backport this to a pre-4.10 kernel which does
> not have 3347fa092821 ("workqueue: make workqueue available early
> during boot") yet?

Sorry I did not mention that. I was trying on 4.9 kernel. It's clear now. Thanks.

>>> +void psi_task_change(struct task_struct *task, u64 now, int clear, int set)
>>> +{
>>> +	struct cgroup *cgroup, *parent;
>> unused variables
> They're used in the next patch, I'll fix that up.
>
> Thanks