Commit 47712a92 authored by Nicholas Piggin's avatar Nicholas Piggin Committed by Michael Ellerman

powerpc/watchdog: remove arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace

The powerpc NMI IPIs may not be recoverable if they are taken in
some sections of code, and also there have been and still are issues
with taking NMIs (in KVM guest code, in firmware, etc) which makes them
a bit dangerous to use.

Generic code like softlockup detector and rcu stall detectors really
hammer on trigger_*_backtrace, which has lead to further problems
because we've implemented it with the NMI.

So stop providing NMI backtraces for now. Importantly, the powerpc code
uses NMI IPIs in crash/debug, and the SMP hardlockup watchdog. So if the
softlockup and rcu hang detection traces are not being printed because
the CPU is stuck with interrupts off, then the hard lockup watchdog
should get it with the NMI IPI.

Fixes: 2104180a ("powerpc/64s: implement arch-specific hardlockup watchdog")
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent 1af19331
......@@ -4,10 +4,6 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_WATCHDOG
extern void arch_touch_nmi_watchdog(void);
extern void arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(const cpumask_t *mask,
bool exclude_self);
#define arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace
#else
static inline void arch_touch_nmi_watchdog(void) {}
#endif
......
......@@ -393,25 +393,3 @@ int __init watchdog_nmi_probe(void)
}
return 0;
}
static void handle_backtrace_ipi(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
nmi_cpu_backtrace(regs);
}
static void raise_backtrace_ipi(cpumask_t *mask)
{
unsigned int cpu;
for_each_cpu(cpu, mask) {
if (cpu == smp_processor_id())
handle_backtrace_ipi(NULL);
else
smp_send_nmi_ipi(cpu, handle_backtrace_ipi, 1000000);
}
}
void arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(const cpumask_t *mask, bool exclude_self)
{
nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(mask, exclude_self, raise_backtrace_ipi);
}
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