Re: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:59:45 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> * Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > this patch extends the soft-lockup detector to automatically
> > > detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks. Such hung tasks are
> > > printed the following way:
> > 
> > That will likely trigger anytime a hard nfs/cifs mount loses its 
> > server for 120s. To make this work you would need a new 
> > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE_EXTERNAL_EVENT or similar and mark all the
> > places which depend on those.
> 
> TASK_KILLABLE should be the right solution i think.

.. and it's even a tool to show where we missed making something
TASK_KILLABLE... anything that triggers from NFS and the like really
ought to be TASK_KILLABLE after all. This patch will point any
omissions out quite nicely without having to do any kind of destructive
testing.


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