Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.
Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25c ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.
Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
virtual patch
@
depends on !(file in "net")
disable optional_qualifier
@
identifier table_name != {
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
iwcm_ctl_table,
ucma_ctl_table,
memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table
};
@@
+ const
struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };
sed:
sed --in-place \
-e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \
kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Resending this patch as I haven't received feedback on my initial
submission https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241204182953.10854-1-oxana@cloudflare.com/
For the processes which are terminated abnormally the kernel can provide
a coredump if enabled. When the coredump is performed, the process and
all its threads are put into the D state
(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_FREEZABLE).
On the other hand, we have kernel thread khungtaskd which monitors the
processes in the D state. If the task stuck in the D state more than
kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs, the hung_task alert appears in the kernel
log.
The higher memory usage of a process, the longer it takes to create
coredump, the longer tasks are in the D state. We have hung_task alerts
for the processes with memory usage above 10Gb. Although, our
kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs is 10 sec when the default is 120 sec.
Adding additional information to the log that the task is blocked by
coredump will help with monitoring. Another approach might be to
completely filter out alerts for such tasks, but in that case we would
lose transparency about what is putting pressure on some system
resources, e.g. we saw an increase in I/O when coredump occurs due its
writing to disk.
Additionally, it would be helpful to have task_struct->flags in the log
from the function sched_show_task(). Currently it prints
task_struct->thread_info->flags, this seems misleading as the line
starts with "task:xxxx".
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk control string]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110160328.64947-1-oxana@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Oxana Kharitonova <oxana@cloudflare.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "add detect count for hung tasks", v2.
This patchset adds a counter, hung_task_detect_count, to track the number
of times hung tasks are detected.
IHMO, hung tasks are a critical metric. Currently, we detect them by
periodically parsing dmesg. However, this method isn't as user-friendly
as using a counter.
Sometimes, a short-lived issue with NIC or hard drive can quickly decrease
the hung_task_warnings to zero. Without warnings, we must directly access
the node to ensure that there are no more hung tasks and that the system
has recovered. After all, load average alone cannot provide a clear
picture.
Once this counter is in place, in a high-density deployment pattern, we
plan to set hung_task_timeout_secs to a lower number to improve stability,
even though this might result in false positives. And then we can set a
time-based threshold: if hung tasks last beyond this duration, we will
automatically migrate containers to other nodes. Based on past
experience, this approach could help avoid many production disruptions.
Moreover, just like other important events such as OOM that already have
counters, having a dedicated counter for hung tasks makes sense ;)
This patch (of 2):
This commit adds a counter, hung_task_detect_count, to track the number of
times hung tasks are detected.
IHMO, hung tasks are a critical metric. Currently, we detect them by
periodically parsing dmesg. However, this method isn't as user-friendly as
using a counter.
Sometimes, a short-lived issue with NIC or hard drive can quickly decrease
the hung_task_warnings to zero. Without warnings, we must directly access
the node to ensure that there are no more hung tasks and that the system
has recovered. After all, load average alone cannot provide a clear
picture.
Once this counter is in place, in a high-density deployment pattern, we
plan to set hung_task_timeout_secs to a lower number to improve stability,
even though this might result in false positives. And then we can set a
time-based threshold: if hung tasks last beyond this duration, we will
automatically migrate containers to other nodes. Based on past experience,
this approach could help avoid many production disruptions.
Moreover, just like other important events such as OOM that already have
counters, having a dedicated counter for hung tasks makes sense.
[ioworker0@gmail.com: proc_doulongvec_minmax instead of proc_dointvec]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241101114833.8377-1-ioworker0@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241027120747.42833-1-ioworker0@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241027120747.42833-2-ioworker0@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mingzhe Yang <mingzhe.yang@ly.com>
Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Bang Li <libang.li@antgroup.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Huang Cun <cunhuang@tencent.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: John Siddle <jsiddle@redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: Yongliang Gao <leonylgao@tencent.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.
This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:
```
virtual patch
@r1@
identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
@r2@
identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{ ... }
@r3@
identifier func;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r4@
identifier func, ctl;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r5@
identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
```
* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
adjusted.
* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
proc_handler migration.
Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
If hung_task_panic is enabled, don't consider the value of
hung_task_warnings and display the information of the hung tasks.
In some cases, hung_task_panic might not be initially set up, after
several hung tasks occur, the hung_task_warnings count reaches zero. If
hung_task_panic is set up later, it may not display any helpful hung task
info in dmesg, only showing messages like:
Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks
CPU: 3 PID: 58 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted 6.10.0-rc3 #19
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
panic+0x2f3/0x320
watchdog+0x2dd/0x510
? __pfx_watchdog+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xe0/0x110
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x40
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240613033159.3446265-1-leonylgao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yongliang Gao <leonylgao@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Huang Cun <cunhuang@tencent.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Cc: John Siddle <jsiddle@redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)
Remove the sentinel from ctl_table arrays. Reduce by one the values used
to compare the size of the adjusted arrays.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
needed for thread_with_file; also rare but not unheard of to need this
in module code, when blocking on user input.
one workaround used by some code is wait_event_interruptible() - but
that can be buggy if the outer context isn't expecting unwinding.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: fuyuanli <fuyuanli@didiglobal.com>
Boris reported hung_task splats after commit 5aec788aeb ("sched: Fix
TASK_state comparisons"). Upon closer consideration of that change it
doesn't only exclude TASK_KILLABLE, but also TASK_IDLE.
Update the comment to reflect this fact and add an additional
TASK_NOLOAD test to exclude them.
Additionally, remove the TASK_FREEZABLE early exit from
check_hung_task(), a freezable task is not a frozen task.
Fixes: 5aec788aeb ("sched: Fix TASK_state comparisons")
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Task state is fundamentally a bitmask; direct comparisons are probably
not working as intended. Specifically the normal wait-state have
a number of possible modifiers:
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE: TASK_WAKEKILL, TASK_NOLOAD, TASK_FREEZABLE
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE: TASK_FREEZABLE
Specifically, the addition of TASK_FREEZABLE wrecked
__wait_is_interruptible(). This however led to an audit of direct
comparisons yielding the rest of the changes.
Fixes: f5d39b0208 ("freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic")
Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Debugged-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Rewrite the core freezer to behave better wrt thawing and be simpler
in general.
By replacing PF_FROZEN with TASK_FROZEN, a special block state, it is
ensured frozen tasks stay frozen until thawed and don't randomly wake
up early, as is currently possible.
As such, it does away with PF_FROZEN and PF_FREEZER_SKIP, freeing up
two PF_flags (yay!).
Specifically; the current scheme works a little like:
freezer_do_not_count();
schedule();
freezer_count();
And either the task is blocked, or it lands in try_to_freezer()
through freezer_count(). Now, when it is blocked, the freezer
considers it frozen and continues.
However, on thawing, once pm_freezing is cleared, freezer_count()
stops working, and any random/spurious wakeup will let a task run
before its time.
That is, thawing tries to thaw things in explicit order; kernel
threads and workqueues before doing bringing SMP back before userspace
etc.. However due to the above mentioned races it is entirely possible
for userspace tasks to thaw (by accident) before SMP is back.
This can be a fatal problem in asymmetric ISA architectures (eg ARMv9)
where the userspace task requires a special CPU to run.
As said; replace this with a special task state TASK_FROZEN and add
the following state transitions:
TASK_FREEZABLE -> TASK_FROZEN
__TASK_STOPPED -> TASK_FROZEN
__TASK_TRACED -> TASK_FROZEN
The new TASK_FREEZABLE can be set on any state part of TASK_NORMAL
(IOW. TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE and TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) -- any such state
is already required to deal with spurious wakeups and the freezer
causes one such when thawing the task (since the original state is
lost).
The special __TASK_{STOPPED,TRACED} states *can* be restored since
their canonical state is in ->jobctl.
With this, frozen tasks need an explicit TASK_FROZEN wakeup and are
free of undue (early / spurious) wakeups.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220822114649.055452969@infradead.org
The proc_dohung_task_timeout_secs() function is incorrectly marked
as having a __user buffer as argument 3. However this is not the
case and it is casing multiple sparse warnings. Fix the following
warnings by removing __user from the argument:
kernel/hung_task.c:237:52: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different address spaces)
kernel/hung_task.c:237:52: expected void *
kernel/hung_task.c:237:52: got void [noderef] __user *buffer
kernel/hung_task.c:287:35: warning: incorrect type in initializer (incompatible argument 3 (different address spaces))
kernel/hung_task.c:287:35: expected int ( [usertype] *proc_handler )( ... )
kernel/hung_task.c:287:35: got int ( * )( ... )
kernel/hung_task.c:295:35: warning: incorrect type in initializer (incompatible argument 3 (different address spaces))
kernel/hung_task.c:295:35: expected int ( [usertype] *proc_handler )( ... )
kernel/hung_task.c:295:35: got int ( * )( ... )
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220714074744.189017-1-ben.dooks@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@sifive.com>
Cc: <Conor.Dooley@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit 2bb2b7b57f.
The testing of 5.19 release candidates revealed missing synchronization
between early and regular console functionality.
It would be possible to start the console kthreads later as a workaround.
But it is clear that console lock serialized console drivers between
each other. It opens a big area of possible problems that were not
considered by people involved in the development and review.
printk() is crucial for debugging kernel issues and console output is
very important part of it. The number of consoles is huge and a proper
review would take some time. As a result it need to be reverted for 5.19.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YrBdjVwBOVgLfHyb@alley
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623145157.21938-7-pmladek@suse.com
Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"The non-MM patch queue for this merge window.
Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against
various subsystems. Most notably some maintenance work in ocfs2
and initramfs"
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-05-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (65 commits)
kcov: update pos before writing pc in trace function
ocfs2: dlmfs: fix error handling of user_dlm_destroy_lock
ocfs2: dlmfs: don't clear USER_LOCK_ATTACHED when destroying lock
fs/ntfs: remove redundant variable idx
fat: remove time truncations in vfat_create/vfat_mkdir
fat: report creation time in statx
fat: ignore ctime updates, and keep ctime identical to mtime in memory
fat: split fat_truncate_time() into separate functions
MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as a memcg reviewer
proc/sysctl: make protected_* world readable
ia64: mca: drop redundant spinlock initialization
tty: fix deadlock caused by calling printk() under tty_port->lock
relay: remove redundant assignment to pointer buf
fs/ntfs3: validate BOOT sectors_per_clusters
lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list
kernel/crash_core.c: remove redundant check of ck_cmdline
ELF, uapi: fixup ELF_ST_TYPE definition
ipc/mqueue: use get_tree_nodev() in mqueue_get_tree()
ipc: update semtimedop() to use hrtimer
ipc/sem: remove redundant assignments
...
Once kthread printing is available, console printing will no longer
occur in the context of the printk caller. However, there are some
special contexts where it is desirable for the printk caller to
directly print out kernel messages. Using pr_flush() to wait for
threaded printers is only possible if the caller is in a sleepable
context and the kthreads are active. That is not always the case.
Introduce printk_prefer_direct_enter() and printk_prefer_direct_exit()
functions to explicitly (and globally) activate/deactivate preferred
direct console printing. The term "direct console printing" refers to
printing to all enabled consoles from the context of the printk
caller. The term "prefer" is used because this type of printing is
only best effort. If the console is currently locked or other
printers are already actively printing, the printk caller will need
to rely on the other contexts to handle the printing.
This preferred direct printing is how all printing has been handled
until now (unless it was explicitly deferred).
When kthread printing is introduced, there may be some unanticipated
problems due to kthreads being unable to flush important messages.
In order to minimize such risks, preferred direct printing is
activated for the primary important messages when the system
experiences general types of major errors. These are:
- emergency reboot/shutdown
- cpu and rcu stalls
- hard and soft lockups
- hung tasks
- warn
- sysrq
Note that since kthread printing does not yet exist, no behavior
changes result from this commit. This is only implementing the
counter and marking the various places where preferred direct
printing is active.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> # for RCU
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212250.565456-13-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"190 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock,
migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap,
zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc,
core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs,
signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (190 commits)
ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx
ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock
ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level'
selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state
selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write
selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code
selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures
exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt()
x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned
hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime
hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message
nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop
kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390
init: print out unknown kernel parameters
checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
checkpatch: improve the indented label test
checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3
...
Commit 32927393dc ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler")
removed various __user annotations from function signatures as part of
its refactoring.
It also removed the __user annotation for proc_dohung_task_timeout_secs()
at its declaration in sched/sysctl.h, but not at its definition in
kernel/hung_task.c.
Hence, sparse complains:
kernel/hung_task.c:271:5: error: symbol 'proc_dohung_task_timeout_secs' redeclared with different type (incompatible argument 3 (different address spaces))
Adjust the annotation at the definition fitting to that refactoring to make
sparse happy again, which also resolves this warning from sparse:
kernel/hung_task.c:277:52: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different address spaces)
kernel/hung_task.c:277:52: expected void *
kernel/hung_task.c:277:52: got void [noderef] __user *buffer
No functional change. No change in object code.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201028130541.20320-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 401c636a0e ("kernel/hung_task.c: show all hung tasks before
panic") introduced a change in that we started to show all CPUs
backtraces when a hung task is detected _and_ the sysctl/kernel
parameter "hung_task_panic" is set. The idea is good, because usually
when observing deadlocks (that may lead to hung tasks), the culprit is
another task holding a lock and not necessarily the task detected as
hung.
The problem with this approach is that dumping backtraces is a slightly
expensive task, specially printing that on console (and specially in
many CPU machines, as servers commonly found nowadays). So, users that
plan to collect a kdump to investigate the hung tasks and narrow down
the deadlock definitely don't need the CPUs backtrace on dmesg/console,
which will delay the panic and pollute the log (crash tool would easily
grab all CPUs traces with 'bt -a' command).
Also, there's the reciprocal scenario: some users may be interested in
seeing the CPUs backtraces but not have the system panic when a hung
task is detected. The current approach hence is almost as embedding a
policy in the kernel, by forcing the CPUs backtraces' dump (only) on
hung_task_panic.
This patch decouples the panic event on hung task from the CPUs
backtraces dump, by creating (and documenting) a new sysctl called
"hung_task_all_cpu_backtrace", analog to the approach taken on soft/hard
lockups, that have both a panic and an "all_cpu_backtrace" sysctl to
allow individual control. The new mechanism for dumping the CPUs
backtraces on hung task detection respects "hung_task_warnings" by not
dumping the traces in case there's no warnings left.
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327223646.20779-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
