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Resending this patch as I haven't received feedback on my initial submission https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241204182953.10854-1-oxana@cloudflare.com/ For the processes which are terminated abnormally the kernel can provide a coredump if enabled. When the coredump is performed, the process and all its threads are put into the D state (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_FREEZABLE). On the other hand, we have kernel thread khungtaskd which monitors the processes in the D state. If the task stuck in the D state more than kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs, the hung_task alert appears in the kernel log. The higher memory usage of a process, the longer it takes to create coredump, the longer tasks are in the D state. We have hung_task alerts for the processes with memory usage above 10Gb. Although, our kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs is 10 sec when the default is 120 sec. Adding additional information to the log that the task is blocked by coredump will help with monitoring. Another approach might be to completely filter out alerts for such tasks, but in that case we would lose transparency about what is putting pressure on some system resources, e.g. we saw an increase in I/O when coredump occurs due its writing to disk. Additionally, it would be helpful to have task_struct->flags in the log from the function sched_show_task(). Currently it prints task_struct->thread_info->flags, this seems misleading as the line starts with "task:xxxx". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110160328.64947-1-oxana@cloudflare.com Signed-off-by: Oxana Kharitonova <oxana@cloudflare.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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