[PATCH 0/2] hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to rtmutex
ruipengqi <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:29:07 +0800
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From: Ruipeng Qi <[email protected]> Currently, debug_show_blocker() only tracks mutex, semaphore and rwsem lock types. Extend it to also cover rtmutex or rt_mutex-based implementations locks on PREEMPT_RT, so that when a task is hung on an rtmutex, the hung task detector can identify and report which task holds the lock. On 64-bit systems, lock pointers are 8-byte aligned, so their three least significant bits are always zero. Use these bits to encode the blocker type. Unlike semaphores, rtmutex has built-in owner tracking via lock->owner, so no additional bookkeeping is needed. The owner can be read with rt_mutex_owner(). With this change, the hung task detector can now show blocker task's info like below: [ 3000.899985] INFO: task cat:195 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 3000.900561] Not tainted 7.2.0-rc4-00366-gf339a6eb59f3-dirty #22 [ 3000.900930] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 3000.901376] task:cat state:D stack:13784 pid:195 tgid:195 ppid:1 task_flags:0x400000 flags:0x00080000 [ 3000.902081] Call Trace: [ 3000.902233] <TASK> [ 3000.902383] __schedule+0x514/0xf50 [ 3000.902677] rt_mutex_schedule+0x1b/0x30 [ 3000.902916] rt_mutex_slowlock_block.constprop.0+0x3b/0x1c0 [ 3000.903242] __rt_mutex_slowlock_locked.constprop.0+0xa8/0x200 [ 3000.903716] rt_mutex_slowlock.constprop.0+0x48/0xb0 [ 3000.904023] rt_mutex_lock+0x32/0x40 [ 3000.904249] read_dummy_rtmutex+0x2a/0x60 [hung_task_tests] [ 3000.904647] full_proxy_read+0x5b/0x90 [ 3000.904843] vfs_read+0xb0/0x370 [ 3000.905051] ? vm_mmap_pgoff+0xf1/0x1b0 [ 3000.905293] ? vm_mmap_pgoff+0x122/0x1b0 [ 3000.905684] ksys_read+0x68/0xe0 [ 3000.905980] do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540 [ 3000.906213] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f [ 3000.906643] RIP: 0033:0x49a182 [ 3000.906844] RSP: 002b:00007ffc431f6528 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 [ 3000.907251] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 000000000049a182 [ 3000.907673] RDX: 0000000000010000 RSI: 00007f69b2166000 RDI: 0000000000000003 [ 3000.908044] RBP: 00007f69b2166000 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 0000000000000000 [ 3000.908485] R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000010000 [ 3000.908816] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000001000000 [ 3000.909206] </TASK> [ 3000.909351] INFO: task cat:195 is blocked on a rtmutex likely owned by task cat:194. [ 3000.909832] task:cat state:S stack:13784 pid:194 tgid:194 ppid:1 task_flags:0x400000 flags:0x00080000 [ 3000.910426] Call Trace: [ 3000.910618] <TASK> [ 3000.910727] __schedule+0x514/0xf50 [ 3000.910912] schedule+0x22/0xa0 [ 3000.911064] schedule_timeout+0x81/0x100 [ 3000.911254] ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10 [ 3000.911522] msleep_interruptible+0x28/0x50 [ 3000.911754] read_dummy_rtmutex+0x34/0x60 [hung_task_tests] [ 3000.912019] full_proxy_read+0x5b/0x90 [ 3000.912212] vfs_read+0xb0/0x370 [ 3000.912378] ? vm_mmap_pgoff+0xf1/0x1b0 [ 3000.912630] ? vm_mmap_pgoff+0x122/0x1b0 [ 3000.912839] ksys_read+0x68/0xe0 [ 3000.913007] do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540 [ 3000.913187] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f [ 3000.913461] RIP: 0033:0x49a182 [ 3000.913618] RSP: 002b:00007ffd0b4cf048 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 [ 3000.913972] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 000000000049a182 [ 3000.914294] RDX: 0000000000010000 RSI: 00007fbf49a0d000 RDI: 0000000000000003 [ 3000.914648] RBP: 00007fbf49a0d000 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 0000000000000000 [ 3000.914955] R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000010000 [ 3000.915208] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000001000000 [ 3000.915439] </TASK> Ruipeng Qi (2): hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on rtmutex samples: enhance hung_task detector test with rtmutex support include/linux/hung_task.h | 31 +++++++++++++----- kernel/hung_task.c | 22 +++++++++++++ kernel/locking/mutex.c | 4 +-- kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 13 ++++++++ kernel/locking/rwsem.c | 8 ++--- kernel/locking/semaphore.c | 4 +-- lib/Kconfig.debug | 1 - samples/Kconfig | 2 +- samples/hung_task/hung_task_tests.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 9 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1