linux/Documentation
Dmitry Vyukov a2e5144538 kernel/hung_task.c: allow to set checking interval separately from timeout
Currently task hung checking interval is equal to timeout, as the result
hung is detected anywhere between timeout and 2*timeout.  This is fine for
most interactive environments, but this hurts automated testing setups
(syzbot).  In an automated setup we need to strictly order CPU lockup <
RCU stall < workqueue lockup < task hung < silent loss, so that RCU stall
is not detected as task hung and task hung is not detected as silent
machine loss.  The large variance in task hung detection timeout requires
setting silent machine loss timeout to a very large value (e.g.  if task
hung is 3 mins, then silent loss need to be set to ~7 mins).  The
additional 3 minutes significantly reduce testing efficiency because
usually we crash kernel within a minute, and this can add hours to bug
localization process as it needs to do dozens of tests.

Allow setting checking interval separately from timeout.  This allows to
set timeout to, say, 3 minutes, but checking interval to 10 secs.

The interval is controlled via a new hung_task_check_interval_secs sysctl,
similar to the existing hung_task_timeout_secs sysctl.  The default value
of 0 results in the current behavior: checking interval is equal to
timeout.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update hung_task_timeout_max's comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180611111004.203513-1-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
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EDID
PCI Merge branch 'remotes/lorenzo/pci/dwc' 2018-08-15 14:59:11 -05:00
RCU rculist: Improve documentation for list_for_each_entry_from_rcu() 2018-07-12 15:39:25 -07:00
accelerators ocxl: Document new OCXL IOCTLs 2018-06-03 20:40:33 +10:00
accounting
acpi ACPI: property: graph: Update graph documentation to use generic references 2018-07-23 12:44:52 +02:00
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cpuidle cpuidle: Add definition of residency to sysfs documentation 2018-04-09 13:44:37 +02:00
crypto crypto: remove redundant type flags from tfm allocation 2018-07-09 00:30:29 +08:00
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gpio Documentation: gpio: Move drivers-on-gpio.txt to driver-api 2018-03-23 04:22:29 +01:00
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input input: add MT_TOOL_DIAL 2018-07-17 15:33:47 +02:00
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kdump
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laptops platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: silence HKEY 0x6032, 0x60f0, 0x6030 2018-05-07 15:10:31 +03:00
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livepatch livepatch: Remove not longer valid limitations from the documentation 2018-05-24 15:37:57 +02:00
locking locking: Implement an algorithm choice for Wound-Wait mutexes 2018-07-03 09:44:36 +02:00
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media media: doc: media/v4l-drivers: Update Qualcomm CAMSS driver document for 8x96 2018-08-02 08:48:00 -04:00
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misc-devices pci_endpoint_test: Add 2 ioctl commands 2018-07-19 11:46:57 +01:00
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pcmcia pcmcia: remove long deprecated pcmcia_request_exclusive_irq() function 2018-08-18 12:30:42 -07:00
perf drivers/bus: Move Arm CCN PMU driver 2018-03-06 17:26:15 +01:00
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power PM / reboot: Eliminate race between reboot and suspend 2018-08-06 12:35:20 +02:00
powerpc powerpc: Document issues with TM on POWER9 2018-07-02 23:54:29 +10:00
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scheduler sched/deadline/Documentation: Add overrun signal and GRUB-PA documentation 2018-05-14 09:12:27 +02:00
scsi block: remove BLK_EH_HANDLED 2018-05-29 08:59:21 -06:00
security Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables 2018-06-14 12:21:18 +09:00
serial
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sound ASoC: Updates for v4.19 2018-08-13 12:12:31 +02:00
sparc sparc64: Add support for ADI (Application Data Integrity) 2018-03-18 07:38:48 -07:00
sphinx Documentation/sphinx: allow "functions" with no parameters 2018-06-30 07:52:42 -06:00
sphinx-static
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sysctl kernel/hung_task.c: allow to set checking interval separately from timeout 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
target
thermal thermal: Add cooling device's statistics in sysfs 2018-04-02 21:49:01 +08:00
timers timekeeping.txt: Correct maxCount of n-bit binary counter 2018-07-23 09:33:06 -06:00
trace This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection of 2018-08-14 14:29:31 -07:00
translations This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection of 2018-08-14 14:29:31 -07:00
usb USB-serial updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-07-20 21:47:15 +02:00
userspace-api audit/stable-4.18 PR 20180605 2018-06-06 16:34:00 -07:00
virtual KVM: X86: Implement "send IPI" hypercall 2018-08-06 17:59:20 +02:00
vm docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section. 2018-05-29 06:45:55 -06:00
w1 w1: fix w1_ds2438 documentation 2018-07-07 17:27:13 +02:00
watchdog watchdog: remove bfin_wdt driver 2018-03-26 15:57:04 +02:00
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