patches/dump-stack-don-t-disable-preemption-during-trace.patch

From bda19f7819260cc1ff42c006fb81c72afa75498d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 14:27:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dump stack: don't disable preemption during trace

I see here large latencies during a stack dump on x86. The
preempt_disable() and get_cpu() should forbid moving the task to another
CPU during a stack dump and avoiding two stack traces in parallel on the
same CPU. However a stack trace from a second CPU may still happen in
parallel. Also nesting is allowed so a stack trace happens in
process-context and we may have another one from IRQ context. With migrate
disable we keep this code preemptible and allow a second backtrace on
the same CPU by another task.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
index fef917e79b9d..1e501c35adf3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 		unsigned long *stack, unsigned long bp,
 		const struct stacktrace_ops *ops, void *data)
 {
-	const unsigned cpu = get_cpu();
+	const unsigned cpu = get_cpu_light();
 	int graph = 0;
 	u32 *prev_esp;
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 			break;
 		touch_nmi_watchdog();
 	}
-	put_cpu();
+	put_cpu_light();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_trace);
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
index 2552a1eadfed..5b9cdc9527b7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 		unsigned long *stack, unsigned long bp,
 		const struct stacktrace_ops *ops, void *data)
 {
-	const unsigned cpu = get_cpu();
+	const unsigned cpu = get_cpu_light();
 	unsigned long *irq_stack = (unsigned long *)per_cpu(irq_stack_ptr, cpu);
 	unsigned long dummy;
 	unsigned used = 0;
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 	 * This handles the process stack:
 	 */
 	bp = ops->walk_stack(task, stack, bp, ops, data, NULL, &graph);
-	put_cpu();
+	put_cpu_light();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_trace);
 
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ show_stack_log_lvl(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 	int cpu;
 	int i;
 
-	preempt_disable();
+	migrate_disable();
 	cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
 	irq_stack_end	= (unsigned long *)(per_cpu(irq_stack_ptr, cpu));
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ show_stack_log_lvl(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 		stack++;
 		touch_nmi_watchdog();
 	}
-	preempt_enable();
+	migrate_enable();
 
 	pr_cont("\n");
 	show_trace_log_lvl(task, regs, sp, bp, log_lvl);
-- 
2.5.0