linux-kernel - [PATCH RT] dump stack: don't disable preemption during trace

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Date:	Fri, 31 Jul 2015 19:56:42 +0200
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH RT] dump stack: don't disable preemption during trace

I see here large latencies during a stack dump on x86. The
preempt_disable() and get_cpu() should forbid moving the task to another
CPU during a stack dump and avoiding two stack traces in parallel on the
same CPU. However a stack trace from a second CPU may still happen in
parallel. Also nesting is allowed so a stack trace happens in
process-context and we may have another one from IRQ context. With migrate
disable we keep this code preemptible and allow a second backtrace on
the same CPU by another task.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c | 4 ++--
 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c | 8 ++++----
 lib/dump_stack.c               | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
index 464ffd69b92e..00db1aad1548 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 		unsigned long *stack, unsigned long bp,
 		const struct stacktrace_ops *ops, void *data)
 {
-	const unsigned cpu = get_cpu();
+	const unsigned cpu = get_cpu_light();
 	int graph = 0;
 	u32 *prev_esp;
 
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 			break;
 		touch_nmi_watchdog();
 	}
-	put_cpu();
+	put_cpu_light();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_trace);
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
index 5f1c6266eb30..c331e3fef465 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 		unsigned long *stack, unsigned long bp,
 		const struct stacktrace_ops *ops, void *data)
 {
-	const unsigned cpu = get_cpu();
+	const unsigned cpu = get_cpu_light();
 	struct thread_info *tinfo;
 	unsigned long *irq_stack = (unsigned long *)per_cpu(irq_stack_ptr, cpu);
 	unsigned long dummy;
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 	 * This handles the process stack:
 	 */
 	bp = ops->walk_stack(tinfo, stack, bp, ops, data, NULL, &graph);
-	put_cpu();
+	put_cpu_light();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_trace);
 
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ show_stack_log_lvl(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 	int cpu;
 	int i;
 
-	preempt_disable();
+	migrate_disable();
 	cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
 	irq_stack_end	= (unsigned long *)(per_cpu(irq_stack_ptr, cpu));
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ show_stack_log_lvl(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 			pr_cont(" %016lx", *stack++);
 		touch_nmi_watchdog();
 	}
-	preempt_enable();
+	migrate_enable();
 
 	pr_cont("\n");
 	show_trace_log_lvl(task, regs, sp, bp, log_lvl);
diff --git a/lib/dump_stack.c b/lib/dump_stack.c
index 6745c6230db3..7ccbc6ff80ea 100644
--- a/lib/dump_stack.c
+++ b/lib/dump_stack.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(void)
 	 * Permit this cpu to perform nested stack dumps while serialising
 	 * against other CPUs
 	 */
-	preempt_disable();
+	migrate_disable();
 
 retry:
 	cpu = smp_processor_id();
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(void)
 	if (!was_locked)
 		atomic_set(&dump_lock, -1);
 
-	preempt_enable();
+	migrate_enable();
 }
 #else
 asmlinkage __visible void dump_stack(void)
-- 
2.4.6

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