Re: [PATCH 1/2] hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on rtmutex

On Thu 2026-07-30 10:29:08, ruipengqi wrote:
> 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().
> 
> --- a/kernel/hung_task.c
> +++ b/kernel/hung_task.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
>  #include <linux/sys_info.h>
>  
>  #include <trace/events/sched.h>
> +#include <linux/rtmutex.h>
>  
>  /*
>   * The number of tasks checked:
> @@ -149,12 +150,15 @@ static void debug_show_blocker(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long timeout)
>  	blocker_type = hung_task_get_blocker_type(blocker);
>  
>  	switch (blocker_type) {
> +#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
>  	case BLOCKER_TYPE_MUTEX:
>  		owner = mutex_get_owner(hung_task_blocker_to_lock(blocker));
>  		break;
> +#endif
>  	case BLOCKER_TYPE_SEM:
>  		owner = sem_last_holder(hung_task_blocker_to_lock(blocker));
>  		break;
> +#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
>  	case BLOCKER_TYPE_RWSEM_READER:
>  	case BLOCKER_TYPE_RWSEM_WRITER:
>  		owner = (unsigned long)rwsem_owner(
> @@ -165,6 +169,12 @@ static void debug_show_blocker(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long timeout)
>  					hung_task_blocker_to_lock(blocker)) ?
>  					"reader" : "writer";
>  		break;
> +#endif
> +#if defined(CONFIG_64BIT) && defined(CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES)
> +	case BLOCKER_TYPE_RTMUTEX:
> +		owner = (unsigned long)rt_mutex_owner(hung_task_blocker_to_lock(blocker));
> +		break;
> +#endif
>  	default:
>  		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
>  		return;

On one hand, it is "elegant" to handle rtmutex the same way as
the other locks.

On the other hand, this adds a lot of if-deffery and
does not work on 32-bit systems.

Alternative solution would use the existing tracking,
something like:

	if (rt_mutext_blocking_task(task))
		owner = (unsigned long)rt_mutex_owner(rt_mutex_blocking_task(task));

, where rt_mutex_blocking_task() would be a racy public variant
of the existing task_blocked_on_lock(). Something like:

static inline struct rt_mutex_base *rt_mutex_blocking_task(struct task_struct *p)
{
	struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter;

	waiter = data_race(READ_ONCE(p->pi_blocked_on)

	if (waiter)
		return data_race(READ_ONCE(waiter->lock);

	return NULL;
}

Plus, it would require using WRITE_ONCE() when task->pi_blocked_on
is updated to make sure that the value is always consistent
(valid pointer or NULL).

It would avoid the duplicate tracking in the rt_mutex code
and might be more acceptable for the rt_mutex maintainers.

Best Regards,
Petr