Re: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks

[Andi Kleen]

> .. 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.

It would be better to just audit the source for those. Outlawing
something which was previously legal without auditing the source
is bad.

Anyways, i suspect it would just lead to more people disabling
softlockup. I remember during some older stress testing it also
tended to explode regularly, so e.g. SUSE kernel rpms have it disabled.
That patch would probably make it worse.

-Andi
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