From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756038Ab1IGG2A (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2011 02:28:00 -0400 Received: from e8.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.138]:50030 "EHLO e8.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755719Ab1IGGU5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2011 02:20:57 -0400 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, patches@linaro.org, "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 35/55] rcu: Dump local stack if cannot dump all CPUs' stacks Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:00:29 -0700 Message-Id: <1315332049-2604-35-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.3.2 In-Reply-To: <20110906180015.GA2560@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20110906180015.GA2560@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() function is a no-op in architectures that do not define arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace. On such architectures, RCU CPU stall warning messages contain no stack trace information, which makes debugging quite difficult. This commit therefore substitutes dump_stack() for architectures that do not define arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace, so that at least the local CPU's stack is dumped as part of the RCU CPU stall warning message. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcutree.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index ebd18e5..a07bf55 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -583,7 +583,8 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp) } printk("} (detected by %d, t=%ld jiffies)\n", smp_processor_id(), (long)(jiffies - rsp->gp_start)); - trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(); + if (!trigger_all_cpu_backtrace()) + dump_stack(); /* If so configured, complain about tasks blocking the grace period. */ @@ -604,7 +605,8 @@ static void print_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp) */ printk(KERN_ERR "INFO: %s detected stall on CPU %d (t=%lu jiffies)\n", rsp->name, smp_processor_id(), jiffies - rsp->gp_start); - trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(); + if (!trigger_all_cpu_backtrace()) + dump_stack(); raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags); if (ULONG_CMP_GE(jiffies, rsp->jiffies_stall)) -- 1.7.3.2