panic: add option to dump blocked tasks in panic_print
For debugging kernel panics and other bugs, there is already an option of panic_print to dump all tasks' call stacks. On today's large servers running many containers, there could be thousands of tasks or more, and this will print out huge amount of call stacks, taking a lot of time (for serial console which is main target user case of panic_print). And in many cases, only those several tasks being blocked are key for the panic, so add an option to only dump blocked tasks' call stacks. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify documentation a little] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240202132042.3609657-1-feng.tang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Tested-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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