softlockup: make detector be aware of task switch of processes hogging cpu
For now, soft lockup detector warns once for each case of process
softlockup. But the thread 'watchdog/n' may not always get the cpu at the
time slot between the task switch of two processes hogging that cpu to
reset soft_watchdog_warn.
An example would be two processes hogging the cpu. Process A causes the
softlockup warning and is killed manually by a user. Process B
immediately becomes the new process hogging the cpu preventing the
softlockup code from resetting the soft_watchdog_warn variable.
This case is a false negative of "warn only once for a process", as there
may be a different process that is going to hog the cpu. Resolve this by
saving/checking the task pointer of the hogging process and use that to
reset soft_watchdog_warn too.
[dzickus@redhat.com: update comment]
Signed-off-by: chai wen <chaiw.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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