| From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/20] rcu: Once again use NMI-based stack traces in stall warnings | Date | Sat, 14 Jan 2017 01:13:10 -0800 |
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This commit is for all intents and purposes a revert of bc1dce514e9b ("rcu: Don't use NMIs to dump other CPUs' stacks"). The reason to suppose that this can now safely be reverted is the presence of 42a0bb3f7138 ("printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI"), which is said to have made NMI-based stack dumps safe.
However, this reversion keeps one nice property of bc1dce514e9b ("rcu: Don't use NMIs to dump other CPUs' stacks"), namely that only those CPUs blocking the grace period are dumped. The new trigger_single_cpu_backtrace() is used to make this happen, as suggested by Josh Poimboeuf.
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Not-yet-signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> --- kernel/rcu/tree.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index 5a4aaad75e76..d7b63b88434b 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -1278,7 +1278,10 @@ static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(struct rcu_state *rsp) } /* - * Dump stacks of all tasks running on stalled CPUs. + * Dump stacks of all tasks running on stalled CPUs. First try using + * NMIs, but fall back to manual remote stack tracing on architectures + * that don't support NMI-based stack dumps. The NMI-triggered stack + * traces are more accurate because they are printed by the target CPU. */ static void rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(struct rcu_state *rsp) { @@ -1288,11 +1291,10 @@ static void rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(struct rcu_state *rsp) rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rsp, rnp) { raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node(rnp, flags); - if (rnp->qsmask != 0) { - for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu(rnp, cpu) - if (rnp->qsmask & leaf_node_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu)) + for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu(rnp, cpu) + if (rnp->qsmask & leaf_node_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu)) + if (!trigger_single_cpu_backtrace(cpu)) dump_cpu_task(cpu); - } raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags); } } -- 2.5.2
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