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* [PATCH] softlockup: minor cleanup, don't check task->state twice
@ 2008-08-30 17:08 Oleg Nesterov
  2008-09-01  8:43 ` Andi Kleen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Oleg Nesterov @ 2008-08-30 17:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andi Kleen, Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds; +Cc: linux-kernel

The recent commit 16d9679f33caf7e683471647d1472bfe133d858 changed
check_hung_task() to filter out the TASK_KILLABLE tasks. We can
move this check to the caller which has to test t->state anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

--- 2.6.27-rc4/kernel/softlockup.c~SOFTLOCKUP	2008-08-30 18:24:40.000000000 +0400
+++ 2.6.27-rc4/kernel/softlockup.c	2008-08-30 21:06:51.000000000 +0400
@@ -180,10 +180,6 @@ static void check_hung_task(struct task_
 	if (t->flags & PF_FROZEN)
 		return;
 
-	/* Don't check for tasks waiting on network file systems like NFS */
-	if (t->state & TASK_KILLABLE)
-		return;
-
 	if (switch_count != t->last_switch_count || !t->last_switch_timestamp) {
 		t->last_switch_count = switch_count;
 		t->last_switch_timestamp = now;
@@ -237,7 +233,8 @@ static void check_hung_uninterruptible_t
 	do_each_thread(g, t) {
 		if (!--max_count)
 			goto unlock;
-		if (t->state & TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
+		/* use "==" to skip the TASK_KILLABLE tasks waiting on NFS */
+		if (t->state == TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
 			check_hung_task(t, now);
 	} while_each_thread(g, t);
  unlock:


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* Re: [PATCH] softlockup: minor cleanup, don't check task->state twice
  2008-08-30 17:08 [PATCH] softlockup: minor cleanup, don't check task->state twice Oleg Nesterov
@ 2008-09-01  8:43 ` Andi Kleen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andi Kleen @ 2008-09-01  8:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Oleg Nesterov; +Cc: Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds, linux-kernel

Oleg Nesterov wrote:

Hi Oleg,

> The recent commit 16d9679f33caf7e683471647d1472bfe133d858 changed
> check_hung_task() to filter out the TASK_KILLABLE tasks. We can
> move this check to the caller which has to test t->state anyway.

Yes makes sense to do it this way. Thanks.

-Andi

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