Re: [PATCH 0/7] wchan: Fix wchan support
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Date: 2021-10-14 12:03:28
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From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Date: 2021-10-14 12:03:28
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 01:15:27PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
Hi, This fixes up wchan which is various degrees of broken across the architectures. Patch 4 fixes wchan for x86, which has been returning 0 for the past many releases. Patch 5 fixes the fundamental race against scheduling. Patch 6 deletes a lot and makes STACKTRACE unconditional patch 7 fixes up a few STACKTRACE arch oddities 0day says all builds are good, so it must be perfect :-) I'm planning on queueing up at least the first 5 patches, but I'm hoping the last two patches can be too. Also available here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git sched/wchan
These patches introduce a regression on ARM. Whereas before, I have /proc/*/wchan populated with non-zero values, with these patches they _all_ contain "0": root@clearfog21:~# cat /proc/*/wchan 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000root@clearfog21:~# I'll try to investigate what is going on later today. -- RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTP is here! 40Mbps down 10Mbps up. Decent connectivity at last!