From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: scheduling while atomic & hang.
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 10:02:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130706080225.GA439@somewhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFx57XS4wYeEmukk8hMGxD4sVu0pz_BYppEeOdScJObXxw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 12:27:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > It would be nice to have a full-kernel-stack backtrace printout as an
> > option, which prints entries 'above' the current RSP.
>
> One problem with that is that it is likely to be mostly overwritten by
> the debug code that is about to print this all out - and any non-debug
> code may well be really old, just with a sufficiently deep stack trace
> to show up. Not to mention missing any irq-stack changes etc anyway.
>
> So it can easily be *very* misleading - I'm not sure how useful it
> would be as an idea.
>
> Linus
So if the unwider doesn't run with the same stak than the target,
it migh work. This can work with BUG for example But I believe that WARN
doesn't do a trap in x86.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-06 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-04 1:55 scheduling while atomic & hang Dave Jones
2013-07-04 2:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-04 4:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-04 7:49 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-04 17:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-10 20:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-07-04 18:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-05 6:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-05 7:19 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-07-05 10:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-05 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-06 8:02 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2013-07-06 8:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-05 14:38 ` Yet more softlockups Dave Jones
2013-07-05 15:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05 16:00 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-05 16:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05 16:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-05 18:20 ` Seiji Aguchi
2013-07-05 22:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-06 7:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-07 0:24 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-10 15:13 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-10 15:20 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-07-10 15:40 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-12 10:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 15:38 ` Dave Hansen
2013-07-12 15:45 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-12 15:55 ` Dave Hansen
2013-07-12 17:00 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-12 17:12 ` David Ahern
2013-07-12 17:18 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-12 17:40 ` David Ahern
2013-07-12 17:50 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-12 18:07 ` David Ahern
2013-07-12 18:22 ` Dave Hansen
2013-07-12 20:13 ` Dave Hansen
2013-07-13 1:40 ` Vince Weaver
2013-07-10 15:39 ` Vince Weaver
2013-07-10 15:45 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-10 21:54 ` Dave Jones
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