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hung_task: fix false positive during vfork

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vfork parent uninterruptibly and unkillably waits for its child to
exec/exit. This wait is of unbounded length. Ignore such waits
in the hung_task detector.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1325344394.28904.43.camel@lappy>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mandeep Singh Baines 2012-01-03 14:41:13 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 30e053248d
commit f9fab10bbd
1 changed files with 10 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -74,11 +74,17 @@ static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long timeout)
/* /*
* Ensure the task is not frozen. * Ensure the task is not frozen.
* Also, when a freshly created task is scheduled once, changes * Also, skip vfork and any other user process that freezer should skip.
* its state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE without having ever been
* switched out once, it musn't be checked.
*/ */
if (unlikely(t->flags & PF_FROZEN || !switch_count)) if (unlikely(t->flags & (PF_FROZEN | PF_FREEZER_SKIP)))
return;
/*
* When a freshly created task is scheduled once, changes its state to
* TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE without having ever been switched out once, it
* musn't be checked.
*/
if (unlikely(!switch_count))
return; return;
if (switch_count != t->last_switch_count) { if (switch_count != t->last_switch_count) {