RE: [PATCH RESEND] x86_dump_trace: avoiding endless " <IRQ> " isprinted

From: Liu, Chuansheng
Date: Mon Aug 27 2012 - 19:47:27 EST


> Do you think we should add the same change to dumpstack_64.c too.
Feels dumpstack_64.c has different with dumpstack_32 which just has three types stacks for normal thread, hardirq and softirq,
so just want to use this patch to cover x86_32 case and it is the real case I meet also, thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gross, Mark
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 11:50 PM
> To: Liu, Chuansheng; 'linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> (linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> Cc: hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Pan, Jacob jun
> Subject: RE: [PATCH RESEND] x86_dump_trace: avoiding endless " <IRQ> " is
> printed
>
> Do you think we should add the same change to dumpstack_64.c too.
>
> Looks like you addressed Alan's comments already (i.e. use of unlikely not
> needed, us %p, and use pr_warn instead of printk)
>
> --mark
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Liu, Chuansheng
> > Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 6:56 PM
> > To: 'linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' (linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> > Cc: hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Gross, Mark; alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [PATCH RESEND] x86_dump_trace: avoiding endless " <IRQ> " is
> > printed
> >
> > From: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [PATCH] x86_dump_trace: avoiding endless " <IRQ> " is printed
> >
> > Found the case that endless " <IRQ> " printing in dump_trace, and no
> > real meaningful stack traces are output, so there should be one rare
> > case that possibly context->previous_esp = context or other cases.
> >
> > The endless " <IRQ> " is as below:
> > ...
> > [ 82.215244,0] <IRQ>
> > [ 82.215399,0] <IRQ>
> > [ 82.215554,0] <IRQ>
> > [ 82.215710,0] <IRQ>
> > [ 82.215865,0] <IRQ>
> > [ 82.216022,0] <IRQ>
> > [ 82.216178,0] <IRQ>
> > [ 82.216333,0] <IRQ>
> > [ 82.216488,0] <IRQ>
> > [ 82.216643,0] <IRQ>
> > [ 82.216798,0] <IRQ>
> > [ 82.216953,0] <IRQ>
> > ...
> >
> > This patch aim is:
> > 1/ Limiting the " <IRQ> " outputing, currently the max IRQ contexts is
> > 2(softirq+harirq combination); 2/ When the max IRQ contexts 2 is
> > reached, print the context content to confirm;
> >
> > Change-Id: I6d72aa71c4c5ff8f9e6ae133b3f6bfec8887750d
> > Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c | 11 +++++++++++
> > 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
> > b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c index 1038a41..410fa38 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
> > @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct
> > pt_regs *regs,
> > const struct stacktrace_ops *ops, void *data) {
> > int graph = 0;
> > + int dump_irq_count = 0;
> >
> > if (!task)
> > task = current;
> > @@ -47,8 +48,18 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct
> > pt_regs *regs,
> > stack = (unsigned long *)context->previous_esp;
> > if (!stack)
> > break;
> > +
> > + if (dump_irq_count > 2) {
> > + pr_warn("break multi-IRQ print,"
> > + "context=%p, stack=%p\n",
> > + context,
> > + stack);
> > + break;
> > + }
> > +
> > if (ops->stack(data, "IRQ") < 0)
> > break;
> > + dump_irq_count++;
> > touch_nmi_watchdog();
> > }
> > }
> > --
> > 1.7.0.4
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