linux-kernel - [tip:core/locking] hung task debugging: Inject NMI when hung and going to panic

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Message-ID: <tip-625056b65ee9a8b4caf42136e0c844c15e6ec54f@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:53:19 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, levinsasha928@...il.com,
	hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: [tip:core/locking] hung task debugging:
  Inject NMI when hung and going to panic

Commit-ID:  625056b65ee9a8b4caf42136e0c844c15e6ec54f
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/625056b65ee9a8b4caf42136e0c844c15e6ec54f
Author:     Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:47:20 -0400
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:39:25 +0200

hung task debugging: Inject NMI when hung and going to panic

Send an NMI to all CPUs when a hung task is detected and the hung
task code is configured to panic. This gives us a fairly uptodate
snapshot of all CPUs in the system.

This lets us get stack trace of all CPUs which makes life easier
trying to debug a deadlock, and the NMI doesn't change anything
since the next step is a kernel panic.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331848040-1676-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com
[ extended the changelog a bit ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/hung_task.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/hung_task.c b/kernel/hung_task.c
index c21449f..6df6149 100644
--- a/kernel/hung_task.c
+++ b/kernel/hung_task.c
@@ -108,8 +108,10 @@ static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long timeout)
 
 	touch_nmi_watchdog();
 
-	if (sysctl_hung_task_panic)
+	if (sysctl_hung_task_panic) {
+		trigger_all_cpu_backtrace();
 		panic("hung_task: blocked tasks");
+	}
 }
 
 /*
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