Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - procfs updates

 - various misc things

 - more y2038 fixes

 - get_maintainer updates

 - lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

 - various epoll updates

 - autofs updates

 - hfsplus

 - some reiserfs work

 - fatfs updates

 - signal.c cleanups

 - ipc/ updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (166 commits)
  ipc/util.c: update return value of ipc_getref from int to bool
  ipc/util.c: further variable name cleanups
  ipc: simplify ipc initialization
  ipc: get rid of ids->tables_initialized hack
  lib/rhashtable: guarantee initial hashtable allocation
  lib/rhashtable: simplify bucket_table_alloc()
  ipc: drop ipc_lock()
  ipc/util.c: correct comment in ipc_obtain_object_check
  ipc: rename ipcctl_pre_down_nolock()
  ipc/util.c: use ipc_rcu_putref() for failues in ipc_addid()
  ipc: reorganize initialization of kern_ipc_perm.seq
  ipc: compute kern_ipc_perm.id under the ipc lock
  init/Kconfig: remove EXPERT from CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  fs/sysv/inode.c: use ktime_get_real_seconds() for superblock stamp
  adfs: use timespec64 for time conversion
  kernel/sysctl.c: fix typos in comments
  drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: remove redundant pointer md
  fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child
  signal: make get_signal() return bool
  signal: make sigkill_pending() return bool
  ...

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/hung_task.c b/kernel/hung_task.c
index 32b479468e4d..b9132d1269ef 100644
--- a/kernel/hung_task.c
+++ b/kernel/hung_task.c
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ int __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_check_count = PID_MAX_LIMIT;
  */
 unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs = CONFIG_DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT;
 
+/*
+ * Zero (default value) means use sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs:
+ */
+unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_check_interval_secs;
+
 int __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_warnings = 10;
 
 static int __read_mostly did_panic;
@@ -98,8 +103,11 @@ static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long timeout)
 
 	if (switch_count != t->last_switch_count) {
 		t->last_switch_count = switch_count;
+		t->last_switch_time = jiffies;
 		return;
 	}
+	if (time_is_after_jiffies(t->last_switch_time + timeout * HZ))
+		return;
 
 	trace_sched_process_hang(t);
 
@@ -245,8 +253,13 @@ static int watchdog(void *dummy)
 
 	for ( ; ; ) {
 		unsigned long timeout = sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs;
-		long t = hung_timeout_jiffies(hung_last_checked, timeout);
+		unsigned long interval = sysctl_hung_task_check_interval_secs;
+		long t;
 
+		if (interval == 0)
+			interval = timeout;
+		interval = min_t(unsigned long, interval, timeout);
+		t = hung_timeout_jiffies(hung_last_checked, interval);
 		if (t <= 0) {
 			if (!atomic_xchg(&reset_hung_task, 0))
 				check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(timeout);