From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81FE2C6FD1D for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230415AbjCTUBW (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:01:22 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:36274 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229538AbjCTUBS (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:01:18 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7920B28D15 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:00:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1679342416; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=VLdKgj4+WVR+d9i0P6IUaXA9yjHWXiqkGmOulRR5eEk=; b=JwNhytAY7E2KpV09IA4fdJ6Z5dPyBaQ17iFrvupH+Lo3ffAK63FseICstYmHpJzFYdPdfO 4xwLVZcPxFwN5nrh6Wh+sdAo4jxXtqbtWsfR7IIcFk0s3LSWVAnHfw2bs6vOz+KhWjJW+C 8ZUxtP/a8BfDCSH/TjRJ+m+VLlAFjho= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-17-oAwANaBLOzWrhjRM7RjbCg-1; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:00:14 -0400 X-MC-Unique: oAwANaBLOzWrhjRM7RjbCg-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 32EBC1C0432C; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:00:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [10.22.11.102]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27841121319; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:00:13 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:00:13 -0300 From: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" To: Joe Korty Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10.162-rt78] Restore initialization of wake_q_sleeper.next in fork.c Message-ID: References: <20230320193731.GA36840@zipoli.concurrent-rt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20230320193731.GA36840@zipoli.concurrent-rt.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.3 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 03:37:31PM -0400, Joe Korty wrote: > In the transition from 5.10.158-rt77 to 5.10.162-rt78, > the initialization of task_struct::wake_q_sleeper.next > was dropped. Restore it. > > This appears to be only a problem in 5.10. 5.15 does not > have wake_q_sleeper; 4.19 does have it but its initialization > there is still present. > > The 5.10.162-rt78 patch that damaged fork.c is: > > 0170-locking-rtmutex-add-sleeping-lock-implementation.patch > > I do not have a simple test that brings out this problem. > My test consists of a shell script and eight binaries, > all of which were written in Ada. strace shows that it > does a few thousand forks in rapid succession. One of the > forks stalls out, after which no fork after that returns. > Eventually the 122 second stallout occurs and a large > number of threads are shown to be waiting for tasklist > lock, either in do_exit or in copy_process. The kernel > .config has rt and many debug features enabled, lockdep > included. Joe, thank you for investigating that problem and for writing a patch. Earlier today Steffen Dirkwinkel sent a similar patch: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230320080347.32434-1-linux@steffen.cc/ Would you mind giving your ACK to his patch? I have that patch queued for my next build already. Thank you, Luis > Signed-off-by: Joe Korty > Index: b/kernel/fork.c > =================================================================== > --- a/kernel/fork.c > +++ b/kernel/fork.c > @@ -960,6 +960,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_stru > tsk->splice_pipe = NULL; > tsk->task_frag.page = NULL; > tsk->wake_q.next = NULL; > + tsk->wake_q_sleeper.next = NULL; > tsk->pf_io_worker = NULL; > > account_kernel_stack(tsk, 1); > ---end quoted text---