Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753534Ab1FEPcl (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jun 2011 11:32:41 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:36663 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751569Ab1FEPck (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jun 2011 11:32:40 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 17:32:18 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Arne Jansen Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Linus Torvalds , mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, efault@gmx.de, npiggin@kernel.dk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, frank.rowand@am.sony.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [debug patch] printk: Add a printk killswitch to robustify NMI watchdog messages Message-ID: <20110605153218.GA31471@elte.hu> References: <20110605110132.GB23463@elte.hu> <20110605111933.GA24592@elte.hu> <20110605113627.GA25724@elte.hu> <4DEB6F3A.3000109@die-jansens.de> <20110605133958.GA27812@elte.hu> <4DEB8A93.30601@die-jansens.de> <20110605141003.GB29338@elte.hu> <4DEB933C.1070900@die-jansens.de> <20110605151323.GA30590@elte.hu> <20110605152641.GA31124@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110605152641.GA31124@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.3.1 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 645 Lines: 23 one more thing, could you please add this call: debug_show_all_locks(); to after the WARN(), in watchdog.c? Please surround the whole printout portion by the spin_lock()/unlock() protection code i suggested, full-lock-state printouts are slow and other CPUs might start printing their NMI ticks ... With the all-locks-printed output we can double check what locks are held. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/