debug lockups: Improve lockup detection

When debugging a recent lockup bug i found various deficiencies
in how our current lockup detection helpers work:

 - SysRq-L is not very efficient as it uses a workqueue, hence
   it cannot punch through hard lockups and cannot see through
   most soft lockups either.

 - The SysRq-L code depends on the NMI watchdog - which is off
   by default.

 - We dont print backtraces from the RCU code's built-in
   'RCU state machine is stuck' debug code. This debug
   code tends to be one of the first (and only) mechanisms
   that show that a lockup has occured.

This patch changes the code so taht we:

 - Trigger the NMI backtrace code from SysRq-L instead of using
   a workqueue (which cannot punch through hard lockups)

 - Trigger print-all-CPU-backtraces from the RCU lockup detection
   code

Also decouple the backtrace printing code from the NMI watchdog:

 - Dont use variable size cpumasks (it might not be initialized
   and they are a bit more fragile anyway)

 - Trigger an NMI immediately via an IPI, instead of waiting
   for the NMI tick to occur. This is a lot faster and can
   produce more relevant backtraces. It will also work if the
   NMI watchdog is disabled.

 - Dont print the 'dazed and confused' message when we print
   a backtrace from the NMI

 - Do a show_regs() plus a dump_stack() to get maximum info
   out of the dump. Worst-case we get two stacktraces - which
   is not a big deal. Sometimes, if register content is
   corrupted, the precise stack walker in show_regs() wont
   give us a full backtrace - in this case dump_stack() will
   do it.

Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/sysrq.c b/drivers/char/sysrq.c
index 5d7a02f..165f307 100644
--- a/drivers/char/sysrq.c
+++ b/drivers/char/sysrq.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <linux/sysrq.h>
 #include <linux/kbd_kern.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+#include <linux/nmi.h>
 #include <linux/quotaops.h>
 #include <linux/perf_counter.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -222,12 +223,7 @@ static DECLARE_WORK(sysrq_showallcpus, sysrq_showregs_othercpus);
 
 static void sysrq_handle_showallcpus(int key, struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
-	struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
-	if (regs) {
-		printk(KERN_INFO "CPU%d:\n", smp_processor_id());
-		show_regs(regs);
-	}
-	schedule_work(&sysrq_showallcpus);
+	trigger_all_cpu_backtrace();
 }
 
 static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_showallcpus_op = {