From patchwork Tue Apr 7 22:49:25 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 458858 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E3DB140213; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 08:50:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1YfcKH-00037b-7E; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 22:50:33 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1YfcJE-0002XO-Du for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 22:49:28 +0000 Received: from 1.general.kamal.us.vpn ([10.172.68.52] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YfcJE-0005FX-76; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 22:49:28 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1YfcJB-0000b8-Oh; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:49:25 -0700 From: Kamal Mostafa To: David Ahern Subject: [3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "sparc: Touch NMI watchdog when walking cpus and calling printk" has been added to staging queue Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 15:49:25 -0700 Message-Id: <1428446965-2267-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 X-Extended-Stable: 3.13 Cc: Kamal Mostafa , "David S. Miller" , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled sparc: Touch NMI watchdog when walking cpus and calling printk to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt19. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ From 19c409db42959d1214a1e05a8897200f307312a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Ahern Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:06:53 -0400 Subject: sparc: Touch NMI watchdog when walking cpus and calling printk [ Upstream commit 31aaa98c248da766ece922bbbe8cc78cfd0bc920 ] With the increase in number of CPUs calls to functions that dump output to console (e.g., arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace) can take a long time to complete. If IRQs are disabled eventually the NMI watchdog kicks in and creates more havoc. Avoid by telling the NMI watchdog everything is ok. Signed-off-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) -- 1.9.1 diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c index c6f7113..1a79d68 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c @@ -281,6 +281,8 @@ void arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(void) printk(" TPC[%lx] O7[%lx] I7[%lx] RPC[%lx]\n", gp->tpc, gp->o7, gp->i7, gp->rpc); } + + touch_nmi_watchdog(); } memset(global_cpu_snapshot, 0, sizeof(global_cpu_snapshot)); @@ -356,6 +358,8 @@ static void pmu_snapshot_all_cpus(void) (cpu == this_cpu ? '*' : ' '), cpu, pp->pcr[0], pp->pcr[1], pp->pcr[2], pp->pcr[3], pp->pic[0], pp->pic[1], pp->pic[2], pp->pic[3]); + + touch_nmi_watchdog(); } memset(global_cpu_snapshot, 0, sizeof(global_cpu_snapshot));