Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:19:20 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01 |
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> In my custom kernel, I have a wchan field of the task that records > where the task calls something that might schedule. This way I can see > where things locked up if I don't have a back trace of the task. This > field is always zero when it switches to usermode. Something like > this can also be used to check how long the process is in kernel mode. > If a task is in the kernel for more than 10 seconds without sleeping, > that would definitely be a good indication of something wrong. I > probably could write something to check for this if people are > interested. I wont waste my time if nobody would want it.
this would be a pretty useful extension of the softlockup checker!
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