Re: [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: introduce touch_softlockup_watchdog_sched()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Dec 03 2015 - 10:07:00 EST


On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 04:04:42PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 09:48:11AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > We can add MEM_RECLAIM -> !MEM_RECLAIM warning mechanism in addition
> > but I think adding stall detection is justified.
>
> Sure, a stall mech is always nice, but I was thinking we should be able
> to better catch some of these with explicit stuff.

Yeah, sure, I don't think we even need to meddle with lockdep. I'm
gonna add WARN_ON_ONCE()s which trigger whenever something on reclaim
path tries to flush !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueues or work items.

Thanks.

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tejun
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