linux/kernel
Petr Mladek cd2440d66f workqueue: Print backtraces from CPUs with hung CPU bound workqueues
The workqueue watchdog reports a lockup when there was not any progress
in the worker pool for a long time. The progress means that a pending
work item starts being proceed.

Worker pools for unbound workqueues always wake up an idle worker and
try to process the work immediately. The last idle worker has to create
new worker first. The stall might happen only when a new worker could
not be created in which case an error should get printed. Another problem
might be too high load. In this case, workers are victims of a global
system problem.

Worker pools for CPU bound workqueues are designed for lightweight
work items that do not need much CPU time. They are proceed one by
one on a single worker. New worker is used only when a work is sleeping.
It creates one additional scenario. The stall might happen when
the CPU-bound workqueue is used for CPU-intensive work.

More precisely, the stall is detected when a CPU-bound worker is in
the TASK_RUNNING state for too long. In this case, it might be useful
to see the backtrace from the problematic worker.

The information how long a worker is in the running state is not available.
But the CPU-bound worker pools do not have many workers in the running
state by definition. And only few pools are typically blocked.

It should be acceptable to print backtraces from all workers in
TASK_RUNNING state in the stalled worker pools. The number of false
positives should be very low.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2023-03-17 12:03:47 -10:00
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bpf bpf-for-netdev 2023-03-06 20:28:00 -08:00
cgroup Networking changes for 6.3. 2023-02-21 18:24:12 -08:00
configs mm, slob: rename CONFIG_SLOB to CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED 2022-12-01 00:09:20 +01:00
debug kdb: use srcu console list iterator 2022-12-02 11:25:00 +01:00
dma swiotlb: mark swiotlb_memblock_alloc() as __init 2023-02-22 06:44:48 -08:00
entry entry: kmsan: introduce kmsan_unpoison_entry_regs() 2022-10-03 14:03:25 -07:00
events Char/Misc and other driver subsystem changes for 6.3-rc1 2023-02-24 12:47:33 -08:00
futex - Prevent the leaking of a debug timer in futex_waitv() 2023-01-01 11:15:05 -08:00
gcov gcov: add support for checksum field 2022-12-21 14:31:52 -08:00
irq A set of updates for the interrupt susbsystem: 2023-03-05 11:19:16 -08:00
kcsan kcsan: test: don't put the expect array on the stack 2023-01-02 08:59:33 -08:00
livepatch Livepatching changes for 6.3 2023-02-23 14:00:10 -08:00
locking RCU pull request for v6.3 2023-02-21 10:45:51 -08:00
module modules-6.3-rc1 2023-02-23 14:05:08 -08:00
power Merge branches 'powercap', 'pm-domains', 'pm-em' and 'pm-opp' 2023-02-15 20:06:26 +01:00
printk printk changes for 6.3 2023-02-23 13:49:45 -08:00
rcu Merge branch 'stall.2023.01.09a' into HEAD 2023-02-02 16:40:07 -08:00
sched sched_getaffinity: don't assume 'cpumask_size()' is fully initialized 2023-03-14 19:32:38 -07:00
time Updates for timekeeping, timers and clockevent/source drivers: 2023-02-21 09:45:13 -08:00
trace Tracing fixes for v6.3 2023-03-14 17:07:54 -07:00
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audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c capability: just use a 'u64' instead of a 'u32[2]' array 2023-03-01 10:01:22 -08:00
backtracetest.c
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cfi.c
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context_tracking.c context_tracking: Fix noinstr vs KASAN 2023-01-13 11:48:18 +01:00
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Do not bail-out in DYING/STARTING sections 2022-12-02 12:43:02 +01:00
cpu_pm.c cpuidle, cpu_pm: Remove RCU fiddling from cpu_pm_{enter,exit}() 2023-01-13 11:48:15 +01:00
crash_core.c mm: remove 'First tail page' members from struct page 2023-02-02 22:32:59 -08:00
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cred.c cred: Do not default to init_cred in prepare_kernel_cred() 2022-11-01 10:04:52 -07:00
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extable.c
fail_function.c kernel/fail_function: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() 2023-02-08 13:36:22 +01:00
fork.c fork: allow CLONE_NEWTIME in clone3 flags 2023-03-08 12:31:34 +01:00
freezer.c
gen_kheaders.sh kheaders: use standard naming for the temporary directory 2023-01-22 23:43:34 +09:00
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iomem.c
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kallsyms.c kallsyms: Add self-test facility 2022-11-15 00:42:02 -08:00
kallsyms_internal.h kallsyms: Reduce the memory occupied by kallsyms_seqs_of_names[] 2022-11-12 18:47:36 -08:00
kallsyms_selftest.c kallsyms: Fix scheduling with interrupts disabled in self-test 2023-01-13 15:09:08 -08:00
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kexec.c kexec: introduce sysctl parameters kexec_load_limit_* 2023-02-02 22:50:05 -08:00
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kprobes.c x86/kprobes: Fix arch_check_optimized_kprobe check within optimized_kprobe range 2023-02-21 08:49:16 +09:00
ksysfs.c kernels/ksysfs.c: export kernel address bits 2023-01-20 14:30:45 +01:00
kthread.c kthread_worker: check all delayed works when destroy kthread worker 2023-02-02 22:50:02 -08:00
latencytop.c
Makefile kernel hardening fixes for v6.2-rc1 2022-12-23 12:00:24 -08:00
module_signature.c
notifier.c kernel/notifier: Remove CONFIG_SRCU 2023-02-02 16:26:06 -08:00
nsproxy.c fs/exec: switch timens when a task gets a new mm 2022-10-25 15:15:52 -07:00
padata.c Kbuild updates for v6.2 2022-12-19 12:33:32 -06:00
panic.c panic: fix the panic_print NMI backtrace setting 2023-03-02 21:54:23 -08:00
params.c kernel/params.c: Use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool() 2023-01-25 14:07:21 -08:00
pid.c
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pid_sysctl.h mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC 2023-01-18 17:12:37 -08:00
profile.c
ptrace.c rseq: Introduce extensible rseq ABI 2022-12-27 12:52:10 +01:00
range.c
reboot.c kernel/reboot: Add SYS_OFF_MODE_RESTART_PREPARE mode 2022-10-04 15:59:36 +02:00
regset.c
relay.c mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls 2023-02-09 16:51:39 -08:00
resource.c dax/kmem: Fix leak of memory-hotplug resources 2023-02-17 14:58:01 -08:00
resource_kunit.c
rseq.c rseq: Extend struct rseq with per-memory-map concurrency ID 2022-12-27 12:52:12 +01:00
scftorture.c
scs.c scs: add support for dynamic shadow call stacks 2022-11-09 18:06:35 +00:00
seccomp.c seccomp: fix kernel-doc function name warning 2023-01-13 17:01:06 -08:00
signal.c sched: Introduce per-memory-map concurrency ID 2022-12-27 12:52:11 +01:00
smp.c bitmap patches for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-10 12:49:34 -07:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c
stackleak.c
stacktrace.c
static_call.c
static_call_inline.c static_call: Add call depth tracking support 2022-10-17 16:41:16 +02:00
stop_machine.c
sys.c - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
sys_ni.c
sysctl-test.c
sysctl.c sysctl: fix proc_dobool() usability 2023-02-21 13:34:07 -08:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c
torture.c torture: Fix hang during kthread shutdown phase 2023-01-05 12:10:35 -08:00
tracepoint.c tracepoint: Allow livepatch module add trace event 2023-02-18 14:34:36 -05:00
tsacct.c
ucount.c
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c umh: simplify the capability pointer logic 2023-03-03 16:18:19 -08:00
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c kernel/user: Allow user_struct::locked_vm to be usable for iommufd 2022-11-30 20:16:49 -04:00
user_namespace.c userns: fix a struct's kernel-doc notation 2023-02-02 22:50:04 -08:00
usermode_driver.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c kernel/utsname_sysctl.c: Fix hostname polling 2022-10-23 12:01:01 -07:00
watch_queue.c watch_queue: fix IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE alloc error paths 2023-03-08 11:44:45 +01:00
watchdog.c
watchdog_hld.c
workqueue.c workqueue: Print backtraces from CPUs with hung CPU bound workqueues 2023-03-17 12:03:47 -10:00
workqueue_internal.h