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

From: tip-bot for Sasha Levin
Date: Wed Apr 25 2012 - 09:53:29 EST


Commit-ID: 625056b65ee9a8b4caf42136e0c844c15e6ec54f
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/625056b65ee9a8b4caf42136e0c844c15e6ec54f
Author: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:47:20 -0400
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331848040-1676-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx
[ extended the changelog a bit ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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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