On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 03:37:31PM -0400, Joe Korty wrote:
> In the transition from 5.10.158-rt77 to 5.10.162-rt78,
> the initialization of task_struct::wake_q_sleeper.next
> was dropped. Restore it.
>
> This appears to be only a problem in 5.10. 5.15 does not
> have wake_q_sleeper; 4.19 does have it but its initialization
> there is still present.
>
> The 5.10.162-rt78 patch that damaged fork.c is:
>
> 0170-locking-rtmutex-add-sleeping-lock-implementation.patch
>
> I do not have a simple test that brings out this problem.
> My test consists of a shell script and eight binaries,
> all of which were written in Ada. strace shows that it
> does a few thousand forks in rapid succession. One of the
> forks stalls out, after which no fork after that returns.
> Eventually the 122 second stallout occurs and a large
> number of threads are shown to be waiting for tasklist
> lock, either in do_exit or in copy_process. The kernel
> .config has rt and many debug features enabled, lockdep
> included.
Joe, thank you for investigating that problem and for writing a patch.
Earlier today Steffen Dirkwinkel sent a similar patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230320080347.32434-1-linux@xxxxxxxxxx/
Would you mind giving your ACK to his patch? I have that patch queued for
my next build already.
Thank you,
Luis
> Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Index: b/kernel/fork.c
> ===================================================================
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -960,6 +960,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_stru
> tsk->splice_pipe = NULL;
> tsk->task_frag.page = NULL;
> tsk->wake_q.next = NULL;
> + tsk->wake_q_sleeper.next = NULL;
> tsk->pf_io_worker = NULL;
>
> account_kernel_stack(tsk, 1);
>
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