linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 tip/core/rcu 09/18] rcu: Once again use NMI-based stack traces in stall warnings

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Message-Id: <1485294689-11485-9-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:51:20 -0800
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        dvhart@...ux.intel.com, fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com,
        bobby.prani@...il.com,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 tip/core/rcu 09/18] rcu: Once again use NMI-based stack traces in stall warnings

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@...ne.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
---
 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