[RFC][PATCH 12/12 v3] x86/nmi: Perform a safe NMI stack trace on all CPUs

Steven Rostedt
2014-11-04T16:02:48Z

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From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

When trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() is called on x86, it will trigger an
NMI on each CPU and call show_regs(). But this can lead to a hard lock
up if the NMI comes in on another printk().

In order to avoid this, when the NMI triggers, it switches the printk
routine for that CPU to call a NMI safe printk function that records the
printk in a per_cpu seq_buf descriptor. After all NMIs have finished
recording its data, the trace_seqs are printed in a safe context.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140619213952.360076309@goodmis.org

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 85 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c
index 6a1e71bde323..6e7bb0bc6fcd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/nmi.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/seq_buf.h>

#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
u64 hw_nmi_get_sample_period(int watchdog_thresh)
@@ -29,14 +30,35 @@ u64 hw_nmi_get_sample_period(int watchdog_thresh)
#ifdef arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace
/* For reliability, we're prepared to waste bits here. */
static DECLARE_BITMAP(backtrace_mask, NR_CPUS) __read_mostly;
+static cpumask_var_t printtrace_mask;
+
+#define NMI_BUF_SIZE 4096
+
+struct nmi_seq_buf {
+ unsigned char buffer[NMI_BUF_SIZE];
+ struct seq_buf seq;
+};
+
+/* Safe printing in NMI context */
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct nmi_seq_buf, nmi_print_seq);

/* "in progress" flag of arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace */
static unsigned long backtrace_flag;

+static void print_seq_line(struct nmi_seq_buf *s, int last, int pos)
+{
+ const char *buf = s->buffer + last;
+
+ printk("%.*s", (pos - last) + 1, buf);
+}
+
void arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(bool include_self)
{
+ struct nmi_seq_buf *s;
+ int len;
+ int cpu;
int i;
- int cpu = get_cpu();
+ int this_cpu = get_cpu();

if (test_and_set_bit(0, &backtrace_flag)) {
/*
@@ -49,7 +71,17 @@ void arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(bool include_self)

cpumask_copy(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask), cpu_online_mask);
if (!include_self)
- cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask));
+ cpumask_clear_cpu(this_cpu, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask));
+
+ cpumask_copy(printtrace_mask, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask));
+ /*
+ * Set up per_cpu seq_buf buffers that the NMIs running on the other
+ * CPUs will write to.
+ */
+ for_each_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask)) {
+ s = &per_cpu(nmi_print_seq, cpu);
+ seq_buf_init(&s->seq, s->buffer, NMI_BUF_SIZE);
+ }

if (!cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask))) {
pr_info("sending NMI to %s CPUs:\n",
@@ -65,11 +97,57 @@ void arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(bool include_self)
touch_softlockup_watchdog();
}

+ /*
+ * Now that all the NMIs have triggered, we can dump out their
+ * back traces safely to the console.
+ */
+ for_each_cpu(cpu, printtrace_mask) {
+ int last_i = 0;
+
+ s = &per_cpu(nmi_print_seq, cpu);
+ len = s->seq.len;
+ if (!len)
+ continue;
+
+ /* Print line by line. */
+ for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+ if (s->buffer[i] == '\n') {
+ print_seq_line(s, last_i, i);
+ last_i = i + 1;
+ }
+ }
+ if (last_i < i - 1) {
+ print_seq_line(s, last_i, i);
+ pr_cont("\n");
+ }
+ }
+
clear_bit(0, &backtrace_flag);
smp_mb__after_atomic();
put_cpu();
}

+/*
+ * It is not safe to call printk() directly from NMI handlers.
+ * It may be fine if the NMI detected a lock up and we have no choice
+ * but to do so, but doing a NMI on all other CPUs to get a back trace
+ * can be done with a sysrq-l. We don't want that to lock up, which
+ * can happen if the NMI interrupts a printk in progress.
+ *
+ * Instead, we redirect the vprintk() to this nmi_vprintk() that writes
+ * the content into a per cpu seq_buf buffer. Then when the NMIs are
+ * all done, we can safely dump the contents of the seq_buf to a printk()
+ * from a non NMI context.
+ */
+static int nmi_vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
+{
+ struct nmi_seq_buf *s = this_cpu_ptr(&nmi_print_seq);
+ unsigned int len = s->seq.len;
+
+ seq_buf_vprintf(&s->seq, fmt, args);
+ return s->seq.len - len;
+}
+
static int
arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace_handler(unsigned int cmd, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
@@ -78,12 +156,14 @@ arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace_handler(unsigned int cmd, struct pt_regs *regs)
cpu = smp_processor_id();

if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask))) {
- static arch_spinlock_t lock = __ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
+ printk_func_t printk_func_save = this_cpu_read(printk_func);

- arch_spin_lock(&lock);
+ /* Replace printk to write into the NMI seq */
+ this_cpu_write(printk_func, nmi_vprintk);
printk(KERN_WARNING "NMI backtrace for cpu %d\n", cpu);
show_regs(regs);
- arch_spin_unlock(&lock);
+ this_cpu_write(printk_func, printk_func_save);
+
cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask));
return NMI_HANDLED;
}
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