[PATCH 4.16 241/272] rcu: Call touch_nmi_watchdog() while printing stall warnings

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-05-28T11:28:47Z

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 3caa973b7a260e7a2a69edc94c300ab9c65148c3 ]

When RCU stall warning triggers, it can print out a lot of messages
while holding spinlocks. If the console device is slow (e.g. an
actual or IPMI serial console), it may end up triggering NMI hard
lockup watchdog like the following.

---
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -560,8 +560,14 @@ static void rcu_print_detail_task_stall_
}
t = list_entry(rnp->gp_tasks->prev,
struct task_struct, rcu_node_entry);
- list_for_each_entry_continue(t, &rnp->blkd_tasks, rcu_node_entry)
+ list_for_each_entry_continue(t, &rnp->blkd_tasks, rcu_node_entry) {
+ /*
+ * We could be printing a lot while holding a spinlock.
+ * Avoid triggering hard lockup.
+ */
+ touch_nmi_watchdog();
sched_show_task(t);
+ }
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
}

@@ -1677,6 +1683,12 @@ static void print_cpu_stall_info(struct
char *ticks_title;
unsigned long ticks_value;

+ /*
+ * We could be printing a lot while holding a spinlock. Avoid
+ * triggering hard lockup.
+ */
+ touch_nmi_watchdog();
+
if (rsp->gpnum == rdp->gpnum) {
ticks_title = "ticks this GP";
ticks_value = rdp->ticks_this_gp;