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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	paul.mckenney@linaro.org, rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk,
	weber@corscience.de, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:core/urgent] rcu: avoid pointless blocked-task warnings
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:28:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110115142857.GA8610@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tip-b24efdfdf679cf9b05947c531971905fc727dd40@git.kernel.org>


* tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> wrote:

> Commit-ID:  b24efdfdf679cf9b05947c531971905fc727dd40
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/b24efdfdf679cf9b05947c531971905fc727dd40
> Author:     Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
> AuthorDate: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:18:11 -0800
> Committer:  Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> CommitDate: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:58:08 -0800
> 
> rcu: avoid pointless blocked-task warnings
> 
> If the RCU callback-processing kthread has nothing to do, it parks in
> a wait_event().  If RCU remains idle for more than two minutes, the
> kernel complains about this.  This commit changes from wait_event()
> to wait_event_interruptible() to prevent the kernel from complaining
> just because RCU is idle.

Btw., a sidenote, it's not just about the blocked-tasks lockup detector warning, 
uninterruptible sleeps will also artificially inflate the load average of the box, 
+1.0 per such task. So it's definitely a bug to sleep for a very long time 
uninterruptible.

Thanks,

	Ingo

       reply	other threads:[~2011-01-15 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <tip-b24efdfdf679cf9b05947c531971905fc727dd40@git.kernel.org>
2011-01-15 14:28 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-01-16  0:15   ` [tip:core/urgent] rcu: avoid pointless blocked-task warnings Paul E. McKenney

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