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authorAaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>2014-01-20 17:34:13 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-01-25 12:13:33 +0100
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hung_task: Display every hung task warning
When khungtaskd detects hung tasks, it prints out backtraces from a number of those tasks. Limiting the number of backtraces being printed out can result in the user not seeing the information necessary to debug the issue. The hung_task_warnings sysctl controls this feature. This patch makes it possible for hung_task_warnings to accept a special value to print an unlimited number of backtraces when khungtaskd detects hung tasks. The special value is -1. To use this value it is necessary to change types from ulong to int. Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: oleg@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390239253-24030-3-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com [ Build warning fix. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index c398a58673a7..dd5b4496637e 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ extern int blk_iopoll_enabled;
static int sixty = 60;
#endif
-static int neg_one = -1;
+static int __maybe_unused neg_one = -1;
+
static int zero;
static int __maybe_unused one = 1;
static int __maybe_unused two = 2;
@@ -978,9 +979,10 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
{
.procname = "hung_task_warnings",
.data = &sysctl_hung_task_warnings,
- .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long),
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = &neg_one,
},
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT