[PATCH FYI 3/4] ARM: add basic support for on-demand backtrace of other CPUs

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 10:41:38AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> Add basic infrastructure for triggering a backtrace of other CPUs
> via an IPI, preferably at FIQ level.  It is intended that this shall
> be used for cases where we have detected that something has already
> failed in the kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>

As I've said previously, I believe that most of the code below should
be generic code rather than arch code - I see nothing here which is
arch specific apart from the "how do we send a NMI/FIQ", i.o.w. the
smp_cross_call() call.

I'd propose changing linux/nmi.h such that arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace()
becomes "bool trigger_cpu_backtrace(bool include_self)" and have the
presence of the NMI/FIQ trigger function indicate whether we can do
this - and moving the code below into lib/ or kernel/.

> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/irq.h |  5 ++++
>  arch/arm/kernel/smp.c      | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 67 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/irq.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/irq.h
> index 53c15dec7af6..be1d07d59ee9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/irq.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/irq.h
> @@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ extern void (*handle_arch_irq)(struct pt_regs *);
>  extern void set_handle_irq(void (*handle_irq)(struct pt_regs *));
>  #endif
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> +extern void arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(bool);
> +#define arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(x) arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(x)
> +#endif
> +
>  #endif
>  
>  #endif
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
> index 9388a3d479e1..94959f977b82 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -72,8 +72,12 @@ enum ipi_msg_type {
>  	IPI_CPU_STOP,
>  	IPI_IRQ_WORK,
>  	IPI_COMPLETION,
> +	IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE,
>  };
>  
> +/* For reliability, we're prepared to waste bits here. */
> +static DECLARE_BITMAP(backtrace_mask, NR_CPUS) __read_mostly;
> +
>  static DECLARE_COMPLETION(cpu_running);
>  
>  static struct smp_operations smp_ops;
> @@ -539,6 +543,21 @@ static void ipi_cpu_stop(unsigned int cpu)
>  		cpu_relax();
>  }
>  
> +static void ipi_cpu_backtrace(struct pt_regs *regs)
> +{
> +	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
> +
> +	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask))) {
> +		static arch_spinlock_t lock = __ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
> +
> +		arch_spin_lock(&lock);
> +		printk(KERN_WARNING "FIQ backtrace for cpu %d\n", cpu);
> +		show_regs(regs);
> +		arch_spin_unlock(&lock);
> +		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask));
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct completion *, cpu_completion);
>  
>  int register_ipi_completion(struct completion *completion, int cpu)
> @@ -618,6 +637,12 @@ void handle_IPI(int ipinr, struct pt_regs *regs)
>  		irq_exit();
>  		break;
>  
> +	case IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE:
> +		irq_enter();
> +		ipi_cpu_backtrace(regs);
> +		irq_exit();
> +		break;
> +
>  	default:
>  		printk(KERN_CRIT "CPU%u: Unknown IPI message 0x%x\n",
>  		       cpu, ipinr);
> @@ -712,3 +737,40 @@ static int __init register_cpufreq_notifier(void)
>  core_initcall(register_cpufreq_notifier);
>  
>  #endif
> +
> +void arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(bool include_self)
> +{
> +	static unsigned long backtrace_flag;
> +	int i, cpu = get_cpu();
> +
> +	if (test_and_set_bit(0, &backtrace_flag)) {
> +		/*
> +		 * If there is already a trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() in progress
> +		 * (backtrace_flag == 1), don't output double cpu dump infos.
> +		 */
> +		put_cpu();
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	cpumask_copy(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask), cpu_online_mask);
> +	if (!include_self)
> +		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, to_cpumask(backtrace_mask));
> +
> +	if (!cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask))) {
> +		pr_info("Sending FIQ to %s CPUs:\n",
> +			(include_self ? "all" : "other"));
> +		smp_cross_call(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask), IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE);
> +	}
> +
> +	/* Wait for up to 10 seconds for all CPUs to do the backtrace */
> +	for (i = 0; i < 10 * 1000; i++) {
> +		if (cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask)))
> +			break;
> +
> +		mdelay(1);
> +	}
> +
> +	clear_bit(0, &backtrace_flag);
> +	smp_mb__after_atomic();
> +	put_cpu();
> +}
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
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