Re: scheduling while atomic & hang.

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 08:51:13AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 07/03/2013 07:49 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >> [<ffffffff816f42bf>] __schedule+0x94f/0x9c0
> > >> [<ffffffff816f487e>] schedule_user+0x2e/0x70
> > >> [<ffffffff816f6de4>] retint_careful+0x12/0x2e
> > 
> > This call trace does indeed indicate that we took a hardware
> > interrupt which caused a reschedule.  It doesn't necessarily have to
> > be a quantum expiration interrupt, it could just as easily be an I/O
> > completion interrupt.
> 
> Too bad the kernel stack frame at this point is so small [we are just 
> before return to userspace], so we don't really get our usual trace of 
> recent activities via the '?' entries ...
> 
> It would be nice to have a full-kernel-stack backtrace printout as an 
> option, which prints entries 'above' the current RSP.
> 
> I've Cc:-ed Frederic, maybe he has interest in implementing that?

Yeah that sounds interesting. I may give it a try.

Thanks.
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