Hello, Andrew, this one depends on the debug info unification patch and should be routed through -mm too. The writeback folks seem to be okay with the proposed changes although nobody explicitly acked it yet (please do so). Please route these together with the previous set through -mm. Thanks.
This is v2. Changes from v1 are, * Rebased on top of the v2 of "arch: unify task dump debug info" patchset. One of the problems that arise when converting dedicated custom threadpool to workqueue is that the shared worker pool used by workqueue anonimizes each worker making it more difficult to identify what the worker was doing on which target from the output of sysrq-t or debug dump from oops, BUG() and friends. For example, after writeback is converted to use workqueue instead of priviate thread pool, there's no easy to tell which backing device a writeback work item was working on at the time of task dump, which, according to our writeback brethren, is important in tracking down issues with a lot of mounted file systems on a lot of different devices. This patchset implements a way for a work function to mark its execution instance so that task dump of the worker task includes information to indicate what the work item was doing. An example WARN dump would look like the following. WARNING: at /work/os/work/fs/fs-writeback.c:1015 bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2b4/0x3c0() Modules linked in: CPU: 0 Pid: 28 Comm: kworker/u18:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #24 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011 10/26/2007 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:16) ffffffff820a3a98 ffff88015b927cb8 ffffffff81c61855 ffff88015b927cf8 ffffffff8108f500 0000000000000000 ffff88007a171948 ffff88007a1716b0 ffff88015b49df00 ffff88015b8d3940 0000000000000000 ffff88015b927d08 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81c61855>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8108f500>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0 ... This patchset contains the following three patches. 0001-kthread-implement-probe_kthread_data.patch 0002-workqueue-include-workqueue-info-when-printing-debug.patch 0003-writeback-set-worker-desc-to-identify-writeback-work.patch 0001 adds a speculative accessor for kthread_data. 0002 implements worker description. 0003 updates writeback to set its flusher name as worker description. This patchset is on top of akpm as of 2013/04/03 + [PATCHSET v2] arch: unify task dump debug info and available in the following git branch. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git review-wb-better-dbg diffstat follows. Thanks. fs/fs-writeback.c | 1 include/linux/kthread.h | 1 include/linux/workqueue.h | 5 ++ kernel/kthread.c | 19 ++++++++++ kernel/printk.c | 2 + kernel/sched/core.c | 1 kernel/workqueue.c | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/workqueue_internal.h | 12 ++++++ 8 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
