[PATCH] hung task: NMI when hung and going to panic

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Thu Mar 15 2012 - 15:47:43 EST


NMI all CPUs when detected a hung task and the hung task code is configured
to panic.

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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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");
+ }
}

/*
--
1.7.8.4

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