On Wed 21-03-18 05:31:19, Yang Shi wrote: > When running some mmap/munmap scalability tests with large memory (i.e. > > 300GB), the below hung task issue may happen occasionally. > > INFO: task ps:14018 blocked for more than 120 seconds. > Tainted: G E 4.9.79-009.ali3000.alios7.x86_64 #1 > "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this > message. > ps D 0 14018 1 0x00000004 > ffff885582f84000 ffff885e8682f000 ffff880972943000 ffff885ebf499bc0 > ffff8828ee120000 ffffc900349bfca8 ffffffff817154d0 0000000000000040 > 00ffffff812f872a ffff885ebf499bc0 024000d000948300 ffff880972943000 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff817154d0>] ? __schedule+0x250/0x730 > [<ffffffff817159e6>] schedule+0x36/0x80 > [<ffffffff81718560>] rwsem_down_read_failed+0xf0/0x150 > [<ffffffff81390a28>] call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x18/0x30 > [<ffffffff81717db0>] down_read+0x20/0x40 > [<ffffffff812b9439>] proc_pid_cmdline_read+0xd9/0x4e0 Slightly off-topic: Btw. this sucks as well. Do we really need to take mmap_sem here? Do any of arg_start = mm->arg_start; arg_end = mm->arg_end; env_start = mm->env_start; env_end = mm->env_end; change after exec or while the pid is already visible in proc? If yes maybe we can use a dedicated lock. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs