rcu: Call touch_nmi_watchdog() while printing stall warnings
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 9 Jan 2018 18:38:17 +0000 (10:38 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 30 May 2018 05:52:39 +0000 (07:52 +0200)
[ Upstream commit 3caa973b7a260e7a2a69edc94c300ab9c65148c3 ]

When RCU stall warning triggers, it can print out a lot of messages
while holding spinlocks.  If the console device is slow (e.g. an
actual or IPMI serial console), it may end up triggering NMI hard
lockup watchdog like the following.

kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h

index fed95fa..8b3102d 100644 (file)
@@ -559,8 +559,14 @@ static void rcu_print_detail_task_stall_rnp(struct rcu_node *rnp)
        }
        t = list_entry(rnp->gp_tasks->prev,
                       struct task_struct, rcu_node_entry);
-       list_for_each_entry_continue(t, &rnp->blkd_tasks, rcu_node_entry)
+       list_for_each_entry_continue(t, &rnp->blkd_tasks, rcu_node_entry) {
+               /*
+                * We could be printing a lot while holding a spinlock.
+                * Avoid triggering hard lockup.
+                */
+               touch_nmi_watchdog();
                sched_show_task(t);
+       }
        raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
 }
 
@@ -1677,6 +1683,12 @@ static void print_cpu_stall_info(struct rcu_state *rsp, int cpu)
        char *ticks_title;
        unsigned long ticks_value;
 
+       /*
+        * We could be printing a lot while holding a spinlock.  Avoid
+        * triggering hard lockup.
+        */
+       touch_nmi_watchdog();
+
        if (rsp->gpnum == rdp->gpnum) {
                ticks_title = "ticks this GP";
                ticks_value = rdp->ticks_this_gp;