[systemd-devel] [RFC v2 3/6] kthread: warn on kill signal if not OOM

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Anatol Pomozov
<anatol.pomozov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) Why not to make the timeout configurable through config file? There
> is already udev.conf you can put config option there. Thus people with
> modprobe issues can easily "fix" the problem. And then decrease
> default timeout back to 30 seconds. I agree that long module loading
> (more than 30 secs) is abnormal and should be investigated by driver
> authors.

We can already configure this either on the udev or kernel
commandline, is that not sufficient (I don't object to also adding it
to the config file, just asking)?

> 2) Could you add 'echo w > /proc/sysrq-trigger' to udev code right
> before killing the "modprobe" thread? sysrq will print information
> about stuck threads (including modprobe itself) this will make
> debugging easier. e.g. dmesg here
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40454 says nothing where the threads
> were stuck.

Are the current warnings (in udev git) sufficient (should tell you
which module is taking long, but still won't tell you which kernel
thread of course)?

Cheers,

Tom