[PATCH RT 3/7] dump stack: dont disable preemption during trace

[Steven Rostedt]

3.2.77-rt111-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
index 5e890ccd5429..530fdb80d250 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ 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_end =
 		(unsigned long *)per_cpu(irq_stack_ptr, cpu);
 	unsigned used = 0;
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 	 * This handles the process stack:
 	 */
 	bp = ops->walk_stack(tinfo, stack, bp, ops, data, NULL, &graph);
-	put_cpu();
+	put_cpu_light();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_trace);
 
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ 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));
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ show_stack_log_lvl(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 		printk(KERN_CONT " %016lx", *stack++);
 		touch_nmi_watchdog();
 	}
-	preempt_enable();
+	migrate_enable();
 
 	printk(KERN_CONT "\n");
 	show_trace_log_lvl(task, regs, sp, bp, log_lvl);
-- 
2.7.0