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rcu: Start RCU kthreads in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state
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Upon creation, kthreads are in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state, which can
result in softlockup warnings.  Because some of RCU's kthreads can
legitimately be idle indefinitely, start them in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
state in order to avoid those warnings.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Paul E. McKenney authored and Ingo Molnar committed May 28, 2011
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions kernel/rcutree.c
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Expand Up @@ -1648,6 +1648,7 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_cpu_kthread(int cpu)
if (IS_ERR(t))
return PTR_ERR(t);
kthread_bind(t, cpu);
set_task_state(t, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_cpu, cpu) = cpu;
WARN_ON_ONCE(per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_task, cpu) != NULL);
per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_task, cpu) = t;
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if (IS_ERR(t))
return PTR_ERR(t);
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags);
set_task_state(t, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
rnp->node_kthread_task = t;
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
sp.sched_priority = 99;
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
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Expand Up @@ -1295,6 +1295,7 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp,
if (IS_ERR(t))
return PTR_ERR(t);
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags);
set_task_state(t, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
rnp->boost_kthread_task = t;
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
sp.sched_priority = RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO;
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