- 01 May, 2013 40 commits
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Oleg Nesterov authored
There are 2 well known and ancient problems with coredump/signals, and a lot of related bug reports: - do_coredump() clears TIF_SIGPENDING but of course this can't help if, say, SIGCHLD comes after that. In this case the coredump can fail unexpectedly. See for example wait_for_dump_helper()->signal_pending() check but there are other reasons. - At the same time, dumping a huge core on the slow media can take a lot of time/resources and there is no way to kill the coredumping task reliably. In particular this is not oom_kill-friendly. This patch tries to fix the 1st problem, and makes the preparation for the next changes. We add the new SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP flag set by zap_threads() to indicate that this process dumps the core. prepare_signal() checks this flag and nacks any signal except SIGKILL. Note that this check tries to be conservative, in the long term we should probably treat the SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case equally but this needs more discussion. See marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120508897917439 Notes: - recalc_sigpending() doesn't check SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP. The patch assumes that dump_write/etc paths should never call it, but we can change it as well. - There is another source of TIF_SIGPENDING, freezer. This will be addressed separately. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Tested-by:
Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Lucas De Marchi authored
This function suffers from not being able to determine if the cleanup is called in case it returns -ENOMEM. Nobody is using it anymore, so let's remove it. Signed-off-by:
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by:
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Lucas De Marchi authored
These are the only users of call_usermodehelper_fns(). This function suffers from not being able to determine if the cleanup is called. Even if in this places the cleanup pointer is NULL, convert them to use the separate call_usermodehelper_setup() + call_usermodehelper_exec() functions so we can remove the _fns variant. Signed-off-by:
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Lucas De Marchi authored
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Lucas De Marchi authored
Use call_usermodehelper_setup() + call_usermodehelper_exec() instead of calling call_usermodehelper_fns(). In case there's an OOM in this last function the cleanup function may not be called - in this case we would miss a call to key_put(). Signed-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by:
James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by:
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Lucas De Marchi authored
Use call_usermodehelper_setup() + call_usermodehelper_exec() instead of calling call_usermodehelper_fns(). In case the latter returns -ENOMEM the cleanup function may had not been called - in this case we would not free argv and module_name. Signed-off-by:
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Lucas De Marchi authored
call_usermodehelper_setup() + call_usermodehelper_exec() need to be called instead of call_usermodehelper_fns() when the cleanup function needs to be called even when an ENOMEM error occurs. In this case using call_usermodehelper_fns() the user can't distinguish if the cleanup function was called or not. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export call_usermodehelper_setup() to modules] Signed-off-by:
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Andrey Vagin authored
* Dump signals from process-wide and per-thread queues with different sizes of buffers. * Check error paths for buffers with restricted permissions. A part of buffer or a whole buffer is for read-only. * Try to get nonexistent signal. Signed-off-by:
Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrey Vagin authored
This patch adds a new ptrace request PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO. This request is used to retrieve information about pending signals starting with the specified sequence number. Siginfo_t structures are copied from the child into the buffer starting at "data". The argument "addr" is a pointer to struct ptrace_peeksiginfo_args. struct ptrace_peeksiginfo_args { u64 off; /* from which siginfo to start */ u32 flags; s32 nr; /* how may siginfos to take */ }; "nr" has type "s32", because ptrace() returns "long", which has 32 bits on i386 and a negative values is used for errors. Currently here is only one flag PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO_SHARED for dumping signals from process-wide queue. If this flag is not set, signals are read from a per-thread queue. The request PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO returns a number of dumped signals. If a signal with the specified sequence number doesn't exist, ptrace returns zero. The request returns an error, if no signal has been dumped. Errors: EINVAL - one or more specified flags are not supported or nr is negative EFAULT - buf or addr is outside your accessible address space. A result siginfo contains a kernel part of si_code which usually striped, but it's required for queuing the same siginfo back during restore of pending signals. This functionality is required for checkpointing pending signals. Pedro Alves suggested using it in "gdb" to peek at pending signals. gdb already uses PTRACE_GETSIGINFO to get the siginfo for the signal which was already dequeued. This functionality allows gdb to look at the pending signals which were not reported yet. The prototype of this code was developed by Oleg Nesterov. Signed-off-by: -
Vyacheslav Dubeyko authored
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Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Khoroshilov authored
__hfsplus_ext_write_extent() suppresses errors coming from hfs_brec_find(). The patch implements error code propagation. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> Reviewed-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Use a more current logging style. Add #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt hfsplus now uses "hfsplus: " for all messages. Coalesce formats. Prefix debugging messages too. Signed-off-by:
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com> Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Use a more current logging style. Rename macro and uses. Add do {} while (0) to macro. Add DBG_ to macro. Add and use hfs_dbg_cont variant where appropriate. Signed-off-by: -
Vyacheslav Dubeyko authored
fs/hfsplus/bfind.c: In function 'hfs_find_1st_rec_by_cnid': (1) include/uapi/linux/swab.h:60:2: warning: 'search_cnid' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] (2) include/uapi/linux/swab.h:60:2: warning: 'cur_cnid' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make the workaround more explicit] Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Khoroshilov authored
hfs_find_init() may fail with ENOMEM, but there are places, where the returned value is not checked. The consequences can be very unpleasant, e.g. kfree uninitialized pointer and inappropriate mutex unlocking. The patch adds checks for errors in hfs_find_init(). Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by:
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Vyacheslav Dubeyko authored
page->mapping->host cannot be NULL in nilfs_writepage(), so remove the unneeded test. The fixes the smatch warning: "fs/nilfs2/inode.c:211 nilfs_writepage() error: we previously assumed 'inode' could be null (see line 195)". Reported-by:
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vyacheslav Dubeyko authored
Change test_bit(PG_locked, &page->flags) to PageLocked(). Signed-off-by:
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Vyacheslav Dubeyko authored
nilfs2: fix issue with flush kernel thread after remount in RO mode because of driver's internal error or metadata corruption The NILFS2 driver remounts itself in RO mode in the case of discovering metadata corruption (for example, discovering a broken bmap). But usually, this takes place when there have been file system operations before remounting in RO mode. Thereby, NILFS2 driver can be in RO mode with presence of dirty pages in modified inodes' address spaces. It results in flush kernel thread's infinite trying to flush dirty pages in RO mode. As a result, it is possible to see such side effects as: (1) flush kernel thread occupies 50% - 99% of CPU time; (2) system can't be shutdowned without manual power switch off. SYMPTOMS: (1) System log contains error message: "Remounting filesystem read-only". (2) The flush kernel thread occupies 50% - 99% of CPU time. (3) The system can't be shutdowned without manual power switch off. REPRODUCTION PATH: (1) Create volume group with name "unencrypted" by means of vgcreate utility. (2) Run script (prepared by Anthony Doggett <Anthony2486@interfaces.org.uk>): ----------------[BEGIN SCRIPT]-------------------- #!/bin/bash VG=unencrypted #apt-get install nilfs-tools darcs lvcreate --size 2G --name ntest $VG mkfs.nilfs2 -b 1024 -B 8192 /dev/mapper/$VG-ntest mkdir /var/tmp/n mkdir /var/tmp/n/ntest mount /dev/mapper/$VG-ntest /var/tmp/n/ntest mkdir /var/tmp/n/ntest/thedir cd /var/tmp/n/ntest/thedir sleep 2 date darcs init sleep 2 dmesg|tail -n 5 date darcs whatsnew || true date sleep 2 dmesg|tail -n 5 ----------------[END SCRIPT]-------------------- (3) Try to shutdown the system. REPRODUCIBILITY: 100% FIX: This patch implements checking mount state of NILFS2 driver in nilfs_writepage(), nilfs_writepages() and nilfs_mdt_write_page() methods. If it is detected the RO mount state then all dirty pages are simply discarded with warning messages is written in system log. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning] Signed-off-by:
Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Anthony Doggett <Anthony2486@interfaces.org.uk> Cc: ARAI Shun-ichi <hermes@ceres.dti.ne.jp> Cc: Piotr Szymaniak <szarpaj@grubelek.pl> Cc: Zahid Chowdhury <zahid.chowdhury@starsolutions.com> Cc: Elmer Zhang <freeboy6716@gmail.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dan Carpenter authored
Limit the size of the copy so we don't corrupt memory. Hopefully this can only be called by root, but fixing this makes the static checkers happier. Signed-off-by:
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Ben Hutchings authored
Move the calls to memcpy_fromio() up into the loop in dmi_scan_machine(), and move the signature checks back down into dmi_decode(). We need to check at 16-byte intervals but keep a 32-byte buffer for an SMBIOS entry, so shift the buffer after each iteration. Merge smbios_present() into dmi_present(), so we look for an SMBIOS signature at the beginning of the given buffer and then for a DMI signature at an offset of 16 bytes. [artem.savkov@gmail.com: use proper buf type in dmi_present()] Signed-off-by:
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Reported-by:
Tim McGrath <tmhikaru@gmail.com> Tested-by:
Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jiri Kosina authored
The comment I originally added in commit a3defbe5 ("binfmt_elf: fix PIE execution with randomization disabled") is not really 100% accurate -- sysctl is not the only way how PF_RANDOMIZE could be forcibly unset in runtime. Another option of course is direct modification of personality flags (i.e. running through setarch wrapper). Make the comment more explicit and accurate. Signed-off-by:
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Josh Triplett authored
Add a new configuration option CONFIG_BINFMT_SCRIPT to configure support for interpreted scripts starting with "#!"; allow compiling out that support, or building it as a module. Embedded systems running exclusively compiled binaries could leave this support out, and systems that don't need scripts before mounting the root filesystem can build this as a module. Signed-off-by:
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Wong authored
It is always safe to use RCU_INIT_POINTER to NULL a pointer. This results in slightly smaller/faster code. Signed-off-by:
Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Wong authored
This reduces the amount of code inside the ready list iteration loops for better readability IMHO. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Wong authored
Technically we do not need to hold ep->mtx during ep_free since we are certain there are no other users of ep at that point. However, lockdep complains with a "suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!" message; so lock the mutex before ep_remove to silence the warning. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Wong authored
This prevents wakeup_source destruction when a user hits the item with EPOLL_CTL_MOD while ep_poll_callback is running. Tested with CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER=y and "make fs/eventpoll.o C=2" Signed-off-by:
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Eric Wong authored
It is common for epoll users to have thousands of epitems, so saving a cache line on every allocation leads to large memory savings. Since epitem allocations are cache-aligned, reducing sizeof(struct epitem) from 136 bytes to 128 bytes will allow it to squeeze under a cache line boundary on x86_64. Via /sys/kernel/slab/eventpoll_epi, I see the following changes on my x86_64 Core2 Duo (which has 64-byte cache alignment): object_size : 192 => 128 objs_per_slab: 21 => 32 Also, add a BUILD_BUG_ON() to check for future accidental breakage. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use __packed, for all architectures] Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Rothwell authored
Andrew Morton noted: akpm3:/usr/src/25> grep SYSCALL kernel/timer.c SYSCALL_DEFINE1(alarm, unsigned int, seconds) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getpid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getppid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getuid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(geteuid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getgid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getegid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(gettid) SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysinfo, struct sysinfo __user *, info) COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysinfo, struct compat_sysinfo __user *, info) Only one of those should be in kernel/timer.c. Who wrote this thing? [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Rothwell authored
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Stephen Rothwell authored
The only use outside of kernel/timer.c was in kernel/compat.c, so move compat_sys_sysinfo() next to sys_sysinfo() in kernel/timer.c. Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by:
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Andy Shevchenko authored
There is string_unescape_inplace() function which decodes strings in generic way. Let's use it. Signed-off-by:
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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Andy Shevchenko authored
There is kernel function to do the job in generic way. Let's use it. Signed-off-by:
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Andy Shevchenko authored
There is generic implementation of the function to unescape strings. Signed-off-by:
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Andy Shevchenko authored
There are several places in kernel where modules unescapes input to convert C-Style Escape Sequences into byte codes. The patch provides generic implementation of such approach. Test cases are also included into the patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify comment] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export get_random_int() to modules] Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
We sometimes use "struct call_single_data *data" and sometimes "struct call_single_data *csd". Use "csd" consistently. We sometimes use "struct call_function_data *data" and sometimes "struct call_function_data *cfd". Use "cfd" consistently. Also, avoid some 80-col layout tricks. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
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Fan Du authored
Two rt tasks bind to one CPU core. The higher priority rt task A preempts a lower priority rt task B which has already taken the write seq lock, and then the higher priority rt task A try to acquire read seq lock, it's doomed to lockup. rt task A with lower priority: call write i_size_write rt task B with higher priority: call sync, and preempt task A write_seqcount_begin(&inode->i_size_seqcount); i_size_read inode->i_size = i_size; read_seqcount_begin <-- lockup here... So disable preempt when acquiring every i_size_seqcount *write* lock will cure the problem. Signed-off-by:
Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com> Signed-off-by:
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liguang authored
The 'priv' field is redundant; we can pass data via 'info'. Signed-off-by:
liguang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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liguang authored
csd_lock() uses assignment to data->flags rather than |=. That is not buggy at present because only one bit (CSD_FLAG_LOCK) is defined in call_single_data.flags. But it will become buggy if we later add another flag, so fix it now. Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
Writeback has been recently converted to use workqueue instead of its private thread pool implementation. One negative side effect of this conversion is that there's no easy to tell which backing device a writeback work item was working on at the time of task dump, be it sysrq-t, BUG, WARN or whatever, which, according to our writeback brethren, is important in tracking down issues with a lot of mounted file systems on a lot of different devices. This patch restores that information using the new worker description facility. bdi_writeback_workfn() calls set_work_desc() to identify which bdi it's working on. The description is printed out together with the worqueue name and worker function as in the following example dump. WARNING: at fs/fs-writeback.c:1015 bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2b4/0x3c0() Modules linked in: Pid: 28, comm: kworker/u18:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #24 empty empty/S3992 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:16) ffffffff820a3a98 ffff88015b927cb8 ffffffff81c61855 ffff88015b927cf8 ffffffff8108f500 0000000000000000 ffff88007a171948 ffff88007a1716b0 ffff88015b49df00 ffff88015b8d3940 0000000000000000 ffff88015b927d08 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81c61855>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8108f500>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0 [<ffffffff8108f54a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff81200144>] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2b4/0x3c0 [<ffffffff810b4c87>] process_one_work+0x1d7/0x660 [<ffffffff810b5c72>] worker_thread+0x122/0x380 [<ffffffff810bdfea>] kthread+0xea/0xf0 [<ffffffff81c6cedc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
One of the problems that arise when converting dedicated custom threadpool to workqueue is that the shared worker pool used by workqueue anonimizes each worker making it more difficult to identify what the worker was doing on which target from the output of sysrq-t or debug dump from oops, BUG() and friends. This patch implements set_worker_desc() which can be called from any workqueue work function to set its description. When the worker task is dumped for whatever reason - sysrq-t, WARN, BUG, oops, lockdep assertion and so on - the description will be printed out together with the workqueue name and the worker function pointer. The printing side is implemented by print_worker_info() which is called from functions in task dump paths - sched_show_task() and dump_stack_print_info(). print_worker_info() can be safely called on any task in any state as long as the task struct itself is accessible. It uses probe_*() functions to access worker fields. It may print garbage if something went very wrong, but it wouldn't cause (another) oops. The description is currently limited to 24bytes including the terminating \0. worker->desc_valid and workder->desc[] are added and the 64 bytes marker which was already incorrect before adding the new fields is moved to the correct position. Here's an example dump with writeback updated to set the bdi name as worker desc. Hardware name: Bochs Modules linked in: Pid: 7, comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #1 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:0) ffffffff820a3ab0 ffff88000f6e9cb8 ffffffff81c61845 ffff88000f6e9cf8 ffffffff8108f50f 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88000cde16b0 ffff88000cde1aa8 ffff88001ee19240 ffff88000f6e9fd8 ffff88000f6e9d08 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81c61845>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8108f50f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8108f56a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff81200150>] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2a0/0x3b0 ... Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by:
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