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softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detection

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Decoupling allows:

* hung tasks check to happen at very low priority

* hung tasks check and softlockup to be enabled/disabled independently
  at compile and/or run-time

* individual panic settings to be enabled disabled independently
  at compile and/or run-time

* softlockup threshold to be reduced without increasing hung tasks
  poll frequency (hung task check is expensive relative to softlock watchdog)

* hung task check to be zero over-head when disabled at run-time

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Mandeep Singh Baines
2009-01-15 11:08:40 -08:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent c903ff8379
commit e162b39a36
6 changed files with 261 additions and 105 deletions
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kernel/sysctl.c
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@@ -805,6 +805,19 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.extra1 = &neg_one,
.extra2 = &sixty,
},
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
.procname = "hung_task_panic",
.data = &sysctl_hung_task_panic,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec_minmax,
.strategy = &sysctl_intvec,
.extra1 = &zero,
.extra2 = &one,
},
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
.procname = "hung_task_check_count",
@@ -820,7 +833,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.data = &sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs,
.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_doulongvec_minmax,
.proc_handler = &proc_dohung_task_timeout_secs,
.strategy = &sysctl_intvec,
},
{