kernel/hung_task.c: allow to set checking interval separately from timeout

Currently task hung checking interval is equal to timeout, as the result
hung is detected anywhere between timeout and 2*timeout.  This is fine for
most interactive environments, but this hurts automated testing setups
(syzbot).  In an automated setup we need to strictly order CPU lockup <
RCU stall < workqueue lockup < task hung < silent loss, so that RCU stall
is not detected as task hung and task hung is not detected as silent
machine loss.  The large variance in task hung detection timeout requires
setting silent machine loss timeout to a very large value (e.g.  if task
hung is 3 mins, then silent loss need to be set to ~7 mins).  The
additional 3 minutes significantly reduce testing efficiency because
usually we crash kernel within a minute, and this can add hours to bug
localization process as it needs to do dozens of tests.

Allow setting checking interval separately from timeout.  This allows to
set timeout to, say, 3 minutes, but checking interval to 10 secs.

The interval is controlled via a new hung_task_check_interval_secs sysctl,
similar to the existing hung_task_timeout_secs sysctl.  The default value
of 0 results in the current behavior: checking interval is equal to
timeout.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update hung_task_timeout_max's comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180611111004.203513-1-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 59585030cbaf..9d38e75b19a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
 - hung_task_panic
 - hung_task_check_count
 - hung_task_timeout_secs
+- hung_task_check_interval_secs
 - hung_task_warnings
 - hyperv_record_panic_msg
 - kexec_load_disabled
@@ -355,7 +356,7 @@ This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled.
 
 hung_task_timeout_secs:
 
-Check interval. When a task in D state did not get scheduled
+When a task in D state did not get scheduled
 for more than this value report a warning.
 This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled.
 
@@ -364,6 +365,18 @@ Possible values to set are in range {0..LONG_MAX/HZ}.
 
 ==============================================================
 
+hung_task_check_interval_secs:
+
+Hung task check interval. If hung task checking is enabled
+(see hung_task_timeout_secs), the check is done every
+hung_task_check_interval_secs seconds.
+This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled.
+
+0 (default): means use hung_task_timeout_secs as checking interval.
+Possible values to set are in range {0..LONG_MAX/HZ}.
+
+==============================================================
+
 hung_task_warnings:
 
 The maximum number of warnings to report. During a check interval