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This allows eg. the RCU stall detector, or the soft/hardlockup detectors to trigger a backtrace on all CPUs. We implement this by sending a "safe" NMI, which will actually only send an IPI. Unfortunately the generic code prints "NMI", so that's a little confusing but we can probably live with it. If one of the CPUs doesn't respond to the IPI, we then print some info from it's paca and do a backtrace based on its saved_r1. Example output: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: 2-...0: (0 ticks this GP) idle=1be/1/4611686018427387904 softirq=1055/1055 fqs=25735 (detected by 4, t=58847 jiffies, g=58, c=57, q=1258) Sending NMI from CPU 4 to CPUs 2: CPU 2 didn't respond to backtrace IPI, inspecting paca. irq_soft_mask: 0x01 in_mce: 0 in_nmi: 0 current: 3623 (bash) Back trace of paca->saved_r1 (0xc0000000e1c83ba0) (possibly stale): Call Trace: [c0000000e1c83ba0] [0000000000000014] 0x14 (unreliable) [c0000000e1c83bc0] [c000000000765798] lkdtm_do_action+0x48/0x80 [c0000000e1c83bf0] [c000000000765a40] direct_entry+0x110/0x1b0 [c0000000e1c83c90] [c00000000058e650] full_proxy_write+0x90/0xe0 [c0000000e1c83ce0] [c0000000003aae3c] __vfs_write+0x6c/0x1f0 [c0000000e1c83d80] [c0000000003ab214] vfs_write+0xd4/0x240 [c0000000e1c83dd0] [c0000000003ab5cc] ksys_write+0x6c/0x110 [c0000000e1c83e30] [c00000000000b860] system_call+0x58/0x6c Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.