From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [RFC v2 3/6] kthread: warn on kill signal if not OOM Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 16:19:25 +0900 Message-ID: <20140905071925.GC9323@mtj.dyndns.org> References: <1409899047-13045-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1409899047-13045-4-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1409899047-13045-4-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, falcon@meizu.com, tiwai@suse.de, arjan@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com, hare@suse.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp, joseph.salisbury@canonical.com, bpoirier@suse.de, santosh@chelsio.com, "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Kay Sievers , One Thousand Gnomes , Tim Gardner , Pierre Fersing , Nagalakshmi Nandigama , Praveen Krishnamoorthy , Sreekanth Reddy , Abhijit Mahajan , Casey Leedom , Hariprasad S , MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@avagotech.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vge List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:37:24PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: ... > + /* > + * I got SIGKILL, but wait for 60 more seconds for completion > + * unless chosen by the OOM killer. This delay is there as a > + * workaround for boot failure caused by SIGKILL upon device > + * driver initialization timeout. > + * > + * N.B. this will actually let the thread complete regularly, > + * wait_for_completion() will be used eventually, the 60 second > + * try here is just to check for the OOM over that time. > + */ > + WARN_ONCE(!test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE), > + "Got SIGKILL but not from OOM, if this issue is on probe use .driver.async_probe\n"); > + for (i = 0; i < 60 && !test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE); i++) > + if (wait_for_completion_timeout(&done, HZ)) > + goto wait_done; > + Ugh... Jesus, this is way too hacky, so now we fail on 90s timeout instead of 30? Why do we even need this with the proposed async probing changes? Thanks. -- tejun