rcu: Start RCU kthreads in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state

Upon creation, kthreads are in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state, which can
result in softlockup warnings.  Because some of RCU's kthreads can
legitimately be idle indefinitely, start them in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
state in order to avoid those warnings.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 05e254e930e3..77a7671dd147 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -1648,6 +1648,7 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_cpu_kthread(int cpu)
         if (IS_ERR(t))
                 return PTR_ERR(t);
         kthread_bind(t, cpu);
+        set_task_state(t, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
         per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_cpu, cpu) = cpu;
         WARN_ON_ONCE(per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_task, cpu) != NULL);
         per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_task, cpu) = t;
@@ -1755,6 +1756,7 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_node_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp,
                 if (IS_ERR(t))
                         return PTR_ERR(t);
                 raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags);
+                set_task_state(t, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
                 rnp->node_kthread_task = t;
                 raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
                 sp.sched_priority = 99;