From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
mguzik@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4 V3] Print traces on softlockup
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:22:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140423192228.GY8488@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140422112828.ea511cefa17affb99d9aa97f@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:28:28AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:17:24 -0400 Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Added more patches to handle the 'uniprocessor' panic case by sending NMIs
> > to every cpu but self. Only affects x86, sparc.
> >
>
> Looks OK to me. A couple of things:
>
> - Patches 1-3 should be combined so we don't create bisection holes
> due to x86 and sparc build errors.
>
> - Patch 4 adds stuff which is unusable on uniprocessor, especially
> the presence of /proc/sys/kernel/softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace. We
> already have #ifdef CONFIG_SMP in kern_table, so do more of that?
Are you suggesting just add CONFIG_SMP to kern_table entry or all the
pieces in kernel/watchdog.c too? I wasn't sure how messy I should make
this patch.
Cheers,
Don
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-23 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-22 15:17 [PATCH 0/4 V3] Print traces on softlockup Don Zickus
2014-04-22 15:17 ` [PATCH 1/4 v3] nmi: Provide the option to issue an NMI back trace to every cpu but current Don Zickus
2014-04-22 15:17 ` [PATCH 2/4 v3] x86, nmi: Add more flexible NMI back trace support Don Zickus
2014-04-22 15:17 ` [PATCH 3/4 v3] sparc64, " Don Zickus
2014-04-22 15:17 ` [PATCH 4/4 v3] watchdog: Printing traces for all cpus on lockup detection Don Zickus
2014-04-22 18:28 ` [PATCH 0/4 V3] Print traces on softlockup Andrew Morton
2014-04-22 19:09 ` Don Zickus
2014-04-23 19:22 ` Don Zickus [this message]
2014-04-23 19:35 ` Andrew Morton
2014-04-23 20:44 ` Don Zickus
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