[PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/20] rcu: Once again use NMI-based stack traces in stall warnings

Paul E. McKenney
2017-01-14T09:13:59Z

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