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

From: Vinayak Menon
Date: Wed May 23 2018 - 08:26:12 EST



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