Commit e7ea7c98 authored by Arun Raghavan's avatar Arun Raghavan Committed by Thomas Gleixner

rlimits: Print more information when CPU/RT limits are exceeded

When a process is sent a SIGKILL because it exceeded CPU or RT limits,
the cause may not be obvious in userspace -- daemonised processes just
get killed, and even foreground process just see a 'Killed' message. The
lack of any information on why this might be happening in logs can be
confusing to users who are not aware of this mechanism.

Add messages which dump the process name and tid in dmesg when a process
exceeds its CPU or RT limits (soft and hard) in order to make it clearer to
people debugging such issues.
Signed-off-by: default avatarArun Raghavan <arun@arunraghavan.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301145309.27214-1-arun@arunraghavan.netSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 4495c08e
......@@ -825,6 +825,8 @@ static void check_thread_timers(struct task_struct *tsk,
* At the hard limit, we just die.
* No need to calculate anything else now.
*/
pr_info("CPU Watchdog Timeout (hard): %s[%d]\n",
tsk->comm, task_pid_nr(tsk));
__group_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, tsk);
return;
}
......@@ -836,8 +838,7 @@ static void check_thread_timers(struct task_struct *tsk,
soft += USEC_PER_SEC;
sig->rlim[RLIMIT_RTTIME].rlim_cur = soft;
}
printk(KERN_INFO
"RT Watchdog Timeout: %s[%d]\n",
pr_info("RT Watchdog Timeout (soft): %s[%d]\n",
tsk->comm, task_pid_nr(tsk));
__group_send_sig_info(SIGXCPU, SEND_SIG_PRIV, tsk);
}
......@@ -935,6 +936,8 @@ static void check_process_timers(struct task_struct *tsk,
* At the hard limit, we just die.
* No need to calculate anything else now.
*/
pr_info("RT Watchdog Timeout (hard): %s[%d]\n",
tsk->comm, task_pid_nr(tsk));
__group_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, tsk);
return;
}
......@@ -942,6 +945,8 @@ static void check_process_timers(struct task_struct *tsk,
/*
* At the soft limit, send a SIGXCPU every second.
*/
pr_info("CPU Watchdog Timeout (soft): %s[%d]\n",
tsk->comm, task_pid_nr(tsk));
__group_send_sig_info(SIGXCPU, SEND_SIG_PRIV, tsk);
if (soft < hard) {
soft++;
......
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