[PATCH rcu 08/10] sched/debug: Show the registers of 'current' in dump_cpu_task()

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Aug 31 2022 - 14:08:57 EST


From: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>

The dump_cpu_task() function does not print registers on architectures
that do not support NMIs. However, registers can be useful for
debugging. Fortunately, in the case where dump_cpu_task() is invoked
from an interrupt handler and is dumping the current CPU's stack, the
get_irq_regs() function can be used to get the registers.

Therefore, this commit makes dump_cpu_task() check to see if it is being
asked to dump the current CPU's stack from within an interrupt handler,
and, if so, it uses the get_irq_regs() function to obtain the registers.
On systems that do support NMIs, this commit has the further advantage
of avoiding a self-NMI in this case.

This is an example of rcu self-detected stall on arm64, which does not
support NMIs:
[ 27.501721] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
[ 27.502238] rcu: 0-....: (1250 ticks this GP) idle=4f7/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=2594/2594 fqs=619
[ 27.502632] (t=1251 jiffies g=2989 q=29 ncpus=4)
[ 27.503845] CPU: 0 PID: 306 Comm: test0 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc7-00009-g1c1a6c29ff99-dirty #46
[ 27.504732] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
[ 27.504947] pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 27.504998] pc : arch_counter_read+0x18/0x24
[ 27.505301] lr : arch_counter_read+0x18/0x24
[ 27.505328] sp : ffff80000b29bdf0
[ 27.505345] x29: ffff80000b29bdf0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000
[ 27.505475] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
[ 27.505553] x23: 0000000000001f40 x22: ffff800009849c48 x21: 000000065f871ae0
[ 27.505627] x20: 00000000000025ec x19: ffff80000a6eb300 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[ 27.505654] x17: 0000000000000001 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff80000a6d0296
[ 27.505681] x14: ffffffffffffffff x13: ffff80000a29bc18 x12: 0000000000000426
[ 27.505709] x11: 0000000000000162 x10: ffff80000a2f3c18 x9 : ffff80000a29bc18
[ 27.505736] x8 : 00000000ffffefff x7 : ffff80000a2f3c18 x6 : 00000000759bd013
[ 27.505761] x5 : 01ffffffffffffff x4 : 0002dc6c00000000 x3 : 0000000000000017
[ 27.505787] x2 : 00000000000025ec x1 : ffff80000b29bdf0 x0 : 0000000075a30653
[ 27.505937] Call trace:
[ 27.506002] arch_counter_read+0x18/0x24
[ 27.506171] ktime_get+0x48/0xa0
[ 27.506207] test_task+0x70/0xf0
[ 27.506227] kthread+0x10c/0x110
[ 27.506243] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

This is a marked improvement over the old output:
[ 27.944550] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
[ 27.944980] rcu: 0-....: (1249 ticks this GP) idle=cbb/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=2610/2610 fqs=614
[ 27.945407] (t=1251 jiffies g=2681 q=28 ncpus=4)
[ 27.945731] Task dump for CPU 0:
[ 27.945844] task:test0 state:R running task stack: 0 pid: 306 ppid: 2 flags:0x0000000a
[ 27.946073] Call trace:
[ 27.946151] dump_backtrace.part.0+0xc8/0xd4
[ 27.946378] show_stack+0x18/0x70
[ 27.946405] sched_show_task+0x150/0x180
[ 27.946427] dump_cpu_task+0x44/0x54
[ 27.947193] rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0xec/0x130
[ 27.947212] rcu_sched_clock_irq+0xb18/0xef0
[ 27.947231] update_process_times+0x68/0xac
[ 27.947248] tick_sched_handle+0x34/0x60
[ 27.947266] tick_sched_timer+0x4c/0xa4
[ 27.947281] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x178/0x360
[ 27.947295] hrtimer_interrupt+0xe8/0x244
[ 27.947309] arch_timer_handler_virt+0x38/0x4c
[ 27.947326] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x88/0x230
[ 27.947342] generic_handle_domain_irq+0x2c/0x44
[ 27.947357] gic_handle_irq+0x44/0xc4
[ 27.947376] call_on_irq_stack+0x2c/0x54
[ 27.947415] do_interrupt_handler+0x80/0x94
[ 27.947431] el1_interrupt+0x34/0x70
[ 27.947447] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
[ 27.947462] el1h_64_irq+0x64/0x68 <--- the above backtrace is worthless
[ 27.947474] arch_counter_read+0x18/0x24
[ 27.947487] ktime_get+0x48/0xa0
[ 27.947501] test_task+0x70/0xf0
[ 27.947520] kthread+0x10c/0x110
[ 27.947538] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index e15b6a7f34f47..60fdc0faf1c9d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@

#include <uapi/linux/sched/types.h>

+#include <asm/irq_regs.h>
#include <asm/switch_to.h>
#include <asm/tlb.h>

@@ -11183,6 +11184,16 @@ struct cgroup_subsys cpu_cgrp_subsys = {

void dump_cpu_task(int cpu)
{
+ if (cpu == smp_processor_id() && in_hardirq()) {
+ struct pt_regs *regs;
+
+ regs = get_irq_regs();
+ if (regs) {
+ show_regs(regs);
+ return;
+ }
+ }
+
if (trigger_single_cpu_backtrace(cpu))
return;

--
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