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Re: [PATCH v2] arm: Fix backtrace generation when IPI is masked

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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:05:12PM +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> Currently on ARM when <SysRq-L> is triggered from an interrupt handler
> (e.g. a SysRq issued using UART or kbd) the main CPU will wedge for ten
> seconds with interrupts masked before issuing a backtrace for every CPU
> except itself.
> 
> The new backtrace code introduced by commit 96f0e00378d4 ("ARM: add
> basic support for on-demand backtrace of other CPUs") does not work
> correctly when run from an interrupt handler because IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE
> is used to generate the backtrace on all CPUs but cannot preempt the
> current calling context.

This patch needs a little more work - what happens to the IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE
we've sent to ourselves?  (It fires after the interrupt handler for the
UART/kbd has finished.)  It ought to be masked out if we're going to
handle it a different way.

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[PATCH] arm: Fix backtrace generation when IPI is masked Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> - 2015-09-14 11:20 +0200
  [PATCH v2] arm: Fix backtrace generation when IPI is masked Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> - 2015-09-15 13:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2] arm: Fix backtrace generation when IPI is masked Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-09-15 13:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] arm: Fix backtrace generation when IPI is masked Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> - 2015-09-15 15:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2] arm: Fix backtrace generation when IPI is masked Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-09-15 15:50 +0200
  [PATCH v3] arm: Fix backtrace generation when IPI is masked Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> - 2015-09-15 16:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3] arm: Fix backtrace generation when IPI is masked "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> - 2015-09-16 04:50 +0200

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