3.14.61-rt63-rc1 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 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 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c | 8 ++++---- lib/dump_stack.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c index 66e274a3d968..37aee503a7ba 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ 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(); unsigned long *irq_stack_end = (unsigned long *)per_cpu(irq_stack_ptr, cpu); unsigned used = 0; @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ 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); @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ 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)); @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ 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 f23b63f0a1c3..b39c60b1f12c 100644 --- a/lib/dump_stack.c +++ b/lib/dump_stack.c @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ asmlinkage 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 @@ retry: if (!was_locked) atomic_set(&dump_lock, -1); - preempt_enable(); + migrate_enable(); } #else asmlinkage void dump_stack(void) -- 2.7.0