* Steven Rostedt | 2013-04-25 13:09:37 [-0400]: >Thanks, I didn't look hard at the warnings. Now that I booted the kernel I see this |INFO: task mce-notify:78 blocked for more than 120 seconds. |"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. |mce-notify D 00000086 0 78 2 0x00000000 | f2e1bf2c 00000096 f2e1bebc 00000086 f2e1becc c1466606 f3440000 00000001 | c1689000 c106dd0a f2cdddf0 f3471f50 00000000 c1690f00 00000007 00000006 | c146662d f2cdddf0 00000282 00000001 f3449ef8 00000282 f2e1bf10 c106b67d |Call Trace: | [<c1466606>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x70 | [<c106dd0a>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x5a/0x260 | [<c146662d>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x5d/0x70 | [<c106b67d>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x4d/0xb0 | [<c1466606>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x70 | [<c101b620>] ? set_bank+0x50/0x50 | [<c1464d7e>] schedule+0x1e/0x50 | [<c105bb07>] kthread+0x67/0x90 | [<c1466662>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x22/0x60 | [<c14671b7>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x1b/0x28 | [<c105baa0>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x80/0x80 |no locks held by mce-notify/78. because the new thread is still TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and nobody wakes it up. So I did this: diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c index c2d6dc7..332e133 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c @@ -1371,17 +1371,19 @@ struct task_struct *mce_notify_helper; static int mce_notify_helper_thread(void *unused) { - while (!kthread_should_stop()) { - __mce_notify_work(); + while (1) { set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); schedule(); + if (kthread_should_stop()) + break; + __mce_notify_work(); } return 0; } static int mce_notify_work_init(void) { - mce_notify_helper = kthread_create(mce_notify_helper_thread, NULL, + mce_notify_helper = kthread_run(mce_notify_helper_thread, NULL, "mce-notify"); if (!mce_notify_helper) return -ENOMEM; > >-- Steve Sebastian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html