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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cgroup scheduling: Adding kthreadd to a non-RT cgroup can deadlock the kernel
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:44:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1294220650.2016.197.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110105045447.GN23414@ksplice.com>

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 23:54 -0500, Nelson Elhage wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've found a bug where, on CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED systems, adding the kthreadd
> task to a cgroup with cpu.rt_runtime_us = 0 (as some cgroup configuration
> scripts do, when they move all processes into a default cgroup), can result in
> deadlocks in the kernel.

IMHO its a bug to move kthreadd into a cgroup. Simply don't do that.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-05  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-05  4:54 cgroup scheduling: Adding kthreadd to a non-RT cgroup can deadlock the kernel Nelson Elhage
2011-01-05  6:01 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-05  9:44 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-01-05 15:02   ` Nelson Elhage
2011-01-05 15:18     ` Peter Zijlstra

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