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From:   Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:43:54 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] arm64: ipi_nmi: Add support for NMI backtrace
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
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On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 17:50, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On 2020-10-14 12:12, Sumit Garg wrote:
> > Enable NMI backtrace support on arm64 using IPI turned as an NMI
> > leveraging pseudo NMIs support. It is now possible for users to get a
> > backtrace of a CPU stuck in hard-lockup using magic SYSRQ.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h |  6 ++++++
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_nmi.c  | 12 +++++++++++-
> >  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h
> > b/arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h
> > index b2b0c64..e840bf1 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h
> > @@ -6,6 +6,12 @@
> >
> >  #include <asm-generic/irq.h>
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > +extern void arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(const cpumask_t *mask,
> > +                                        bool exclude_self);
> > +#define arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace
> > +#endif
> > +
> >  struct pt_regs;
> >
> >  static inline int nr_legacy_irqs(void)
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_nmi.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_nmi.c
> > index e0a9e03..e1dc19d 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_nmi.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_nmi.c
> > @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/interrupt.h>
> >  #include <linux/irq.h>
> >  #include <linux/kgdb.h>
> > +#include <linux/nmi.h>
> >  #include <linux/smp.h>
> >
> >  #include <asm/nmi.h>
> > @@ -25,12 +26,21 @@ void arch_send_call_nmi_func_ipi_mask(cpumask_t
> > *mask)
> >       __ipi_send_mask(ipi_desc, mask);
> >  }
> >
> > +void arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(const cpumask_t *mask, bool
> > exclude_self)
> > +{
> > +     nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(mask, exclude_self,
> > +                                   arch_send_call_nmi_func_ipi_mask);
> > +}
> > +
> >  static irqreturn_t ipi_nmi_handler(int irq, void *data)
> >  {
> >       unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
> >
> > -     ipi_kgdb_nmicallback(cpu, get_irq_regs());
> > +     if (nmi_cpu_backtrace(get_irq_regs()))
> > +             goto out;
> >
> > +     ipi_kgdb_nmicallback(cpu, get_irq_regs());
> > +out:
> >       return IRQ_HANDLED;
> >  }
>
> Can't you have *both* a request for a backtrace and a KGDB call?
> It really shouldn't be either/or. It also outlines how well shared
> interrupts work with edge triggered signalling...

Unfortunately, NMIs doesn't seem to support shared mode [1].

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/kernel/irq/manage.c#n1480

-Sumit

>
>          M.
> --
> Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...