Re: [PATCH] RFC: hung_task: taint kernel

Tetsuo Handa
2019-05-03T00:47:03Z

On 2019/05/03 5:46, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> There's the hung_task_panic sysctl, but that's a bit an extreme measure.
> As a fallback taint at least the machine.
>
> Our CI uses this to decide when a reboot is necessary, plus to figure
> out whether the kernel is still happy.

Why your CI can't watch for "blocked for more than" message instead of
setting the taint flag? How does your CI decide a reboot is necessary?

There is no need to set the tainted flag when some task was just blocked
for a while. It might be due to memory pressure, it might be due to setting
very short timeout (e.g. a few seconds), it might be due to busy CPUs doing
something else...