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Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods
Date 2016-03-18 00:10 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 03:55:57PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> That said, RCU used to use NMI-based stack traces, but switched to the
> current scheme due to the NMIs having the unfortunate habit of locking
> things up, which IIRC often meant no stack traces at all.  If I recall
> correctly, one of the problems was self-deadlock in printk().
> 
> Have these problems been fixed?

Improved is I think the word.

Although I've butchered my printk() into absolute submission :-)

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Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace()  methods Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-17 20:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace()  methods Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> - 2016-03-17 23:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace()  methods Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-17 23:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace()  methods Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-18 00:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace()  methods "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-18 00:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace()  methods Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-18 00:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace()  methods Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-18 00:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace()  methods "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-18 01:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace()  methods Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> - 2016-03-18 01:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace()  methods "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-18 01:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace()  methods Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> - 2016-03-18 10:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace()  methods "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-19 01:00 +0100

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