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Sorry for the inconvenience that I bring.
On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 11:53 PM Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On May 2, 2023, at 9:50 AM, Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 9:40 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >>> On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 08:01:41AM +0800, zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>> From: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> In kfree_rcu_test, kfree_scale_shutdown will be detected as hung task
> >>> if kfree_loops is too big. Replace wait_event with wait_event_idle
> >>> to avoid false positive.
> >>>
> >>> Tested in the PPC VM of Open Source Lab of Oregon State University.
> >>>
> >>> Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Good catch, thank you!
> >>
> >> However, this commit beat you to it:
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> >> ef1ef3d47677 ("rcuscale: Move shutdown from wait_event() to wait_event_idle()")
> > You are very welcome ;-) Still, this is a very fruitful learning
> > process for me ;-)
>
> Speaking of learning, can you explain why it fixes the issue? ;-)
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> Your change log lacked the real reason but that is Ok since change logs can only tell you so much. I admit I myself did not know the reason till I read some code.
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> Quiz: why exactly does this all work out in the end even though the hung task detector saw it hung?
When I found "blocked for more than" report in console.log, I did a
grep in kernel source tree, and found check_hung_task will only be
invoked
from check_hung_uninterruptible_tas
ks when (state & TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) and !(state & TASK_WAKEKILL)
and !(state &
TASK_NOLOAD), so I send my first patch [1], and Paul tell me
wait_event_idle is the right answer, then I do a grep for recursively
expansion of macro wait_event_idle, which finally set current->state
to TASK_IDLE ((TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_NOLOAD)), then I conclude
that check_hung_task will not be called. Yes, _interruptible()
variant indicates that wakeups due to things like POSIX signals are
permitted, which are not our case.
I should investigate more on what wait_event_idle really means,
instead of merely grep and debug what wait_event_idle does.
I should write my change log more clearly and explain why wait_event_idle works.
I discovered [2] during the testing of the patch, this is also a very
fruitful learning process.
I will write my change log more indicative next time, and do better
work to our RCU community (and thanks for remove linux-kernel from CC
list ;-))
Thanks
Zhouyi
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1681264483-5208-1-git-send-email-zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx/T/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAABZP2yS5=ZUwEZQ7iHkV0wDm_HgO8K-TeAhyJrZhavzKDa44Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/
> Thanks,
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> - Joel
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> >
> > Cheers
> > Zhouyi
> >>
> >> Thanx, Paul
> >>
> >>> ---
> >>> kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c | 2 +-
> >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c b/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c
> >>> index 91fb5905a008..d99c586939d1 100644
> >>> --- a/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c
> >>> +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c
> >>> @@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ kfree_scale_cleanup(void)
> >>> static int
> >>> kfree_scale_shutdown(void *arg)
> >>> {
> >>> - wait_event(shutdown_wq,
> >>> + wait_event_idle(shutdown_wq,
> >>> atomic_read(&n_kfree_scale_thread_ended) >= kfree_nrealthreads);
> >>>
> >>> smp_mb(); /* Wake before output. */
> >>> --
> >>> 2.34.1
> >>>
