x86/nmi: Perform a safe NMI stack trace on all CPUs
When trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() is called on x86, it will trigger an NMI on each CPU and call show_regs(). But this can lead to a hard lock up if the NMI comes in on another printk(). In order to avoid this, when the NMI triggers, it switches the printk routine for that CPU to call a NMI safe printk function that records the printk in a per_cpu seq_buf descriptor. After all NMIs have finished recording its data, the seq_bufs are printed in a safe context. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140619213952.360076309@goodmis.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141115050605.055232587@goodmis.org Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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