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lib/nmi_backtrace: print out the CPUs which fail to respond to NMI

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When debugging RCU stall cases, usually all CPUs will respond to the NMI
and print out the backtrace.  But in some nasty or hardware related cases,
some CPUs may fail to respond in 10 seconds, and very likely this is sign
of severe issues.

Paul McKenney has implemented the NMI backtrace stall check for x86, and
for other architectures, it should be also helpful to at least print out
those CPUs which failed to repond to the NMI, so that users can get an
early heads-up for possible CPU hard stall.

[feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com: avoid hard-coding "10" in two places and in a comment]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ag-1ciG0FSomBf7q@U-2FWC9VHC-2323.local
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use __stringify()]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260521030336.92172-1-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Feng Tang
2026-05-21 11:03:36 +08:00
committed by Andrew Morton
parent 685568777c
commit c60ffec33d
1 changed files with 12 additions and 3 deletions
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@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/kprobes.h>
#include <linux/stringify.h>
#include <linux/nmi.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/sched/debug.h>
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ static DECLARE_BITMAP(backtrace_mask, NR_CPUS) __read_mostly;
/* "in progress" flag of arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace */
static unsigned long backtrace_flag;
#define NMI_BT_TIMEOUT_SEC 10
/*
* When raise() is called it will be passed a pointer to the
* backtrace_mask. Architectures that call nmi_cpu_backtrace()
@@ -68,14 +71,20 @@ void nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(const cpumask_t *mask,
raise(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask));
}
/* Wait for up to 10 seconds for all CPUs to do the backtrace */
for (i = 0; i < 10 * 1000; i++) {
/* Wait for up to NMI_BT_TIMEOUT_SEC seconds for all CPUs to do the backtrace */
for (i = 0; i < NMI_BT_TIMEOUT_SEC * 1000; i++) {
if (cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask)))
break;
mdelay(1);
touch_softlockup_watchdog();
}
nmi_backtrace_stall_check(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask));
if (!cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask))) {
pr_warn("After " __stringify(NMI_BT_TIMEOUT_SEC) " seconds, these CPUS still haven't responded to the NMI: %*pbl\n",
cpumask_pr_args(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask)));
nmi_backtrace_stall_check(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask));
}
/*
* Force flush any remote buffers that might be stuck in IRQ context