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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> | 2011-05-25 22:42:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-05-28 17:41:56 +0200 |
| commit | cc3ce5176d83cd8ae1134f86e208ea758d6cb78e (patch) | |
| tree | a28ada4c1e5fd8c3e8210ca1a1df950af8a704ff | |
| parent | rcu: Remove waitqueue usage for cpu, node, and boost kthreads (diff) | |
| download | linux-cc3ce5176d83cd8ae1134f86e208ea758d6cb78e.tar.xz linux-cc3ce5176d83cd8ae1134f86e208ea758d6cb78e.zip | |
rcu: Start RCU kthreads in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state
Upon creation, kthreads are in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state, which can
result in softlockup warnings. Because some of RCU's kthreads can
legitimately be idle indefinitely, start them in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
state in order to avoid those warnings.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcutree.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | 1 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 05e254e930e3..77a7671dd147 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -1648,6 +1648,7 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_cpu_kthread(int cpu) if (IS_ERR(t)) return PTR_ERR(t); kthread_bind(t, cpu); + set_task_state(t, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_cpu, cpu) = cpu; WARN_ON_ONCE(per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_task, cpu) != NULL); per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_task, cpu) = t; @@ -1755,6 +1756,7 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_node_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp, if (IS_ERR(t)) return PTR_ERR(t); raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags); + set_task_state(t, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); rnp->node_kthread_task = t; raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags); sp.sched_priority = 99; diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h index 049f2787a984..a767b7dac365 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h @@ -1295,6 +1295,7 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp, if (IS_ERR(t)) return PTR_ERR(t); raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags); + set_task_state(t, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); rnp->boost_kthread_task = t; raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags); sp.sched_priority = RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO; |