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kernel/watchdog.c: print traces for all cpus on lockup detection
authorAaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:22:05 +0000 (13:22 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:47:44 +0000 (16:47 -0700)
commit111dc1b652e3ae710154578a6c06ff3389fb0148
treea562c7ac13452a0573b87977df7b26a6471ece38
parenta088156c786d0a0a0651a92f9bcaeba4202ec700
kernel/watchdog.c: print traces for all cpus on lockup detection

A 'softlockup' is defined as a bug that causes the kernel to loop in
kernel mode for more than a predefined period to time, without giving
other tasks a chance to run.

Currently, upon detection of this condition by the per-cpu watchdog
task, debug information (including a stack trace) is sent to the system
log.

On some occasions, we have observed that the "victim" rather than the
actual "culprit" (i.e.  the owner/holder of the contended resource) is
reported to the user.  Often this information has proven to be
insufficient to assist debugging efforts.

To avoid loss of useful debug information, for architectures which
support NMI, this patch makes it possible to improve soft lockup
reporting.  This is accomplished by issuing an NMI to each cpu to obtain
a stack trace.

If NMI is not supported we just revert back to the old method.  A sysctl
and boot-time parameter is available to toggle this feature.

[dzickus@redhat.com: add CONFIG_SMP in certain areas]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: additional CONFIG_SMP=n optimisations]
[mq@suse.cz: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
include/linux/nmi.h
kernel/sysctl.c
kernel/watchdog.c