On Mon 2016-08-29 12:12:49, Chris Metcalf wrote: > When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, > the output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative. Suppress > messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just > emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN". > > We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new > .cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the > interrupted PC to see if it lies within that section. > > This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only > adds in the minimal framework for other architectures. > > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> > Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> > Tested-by: Daniel Thompson <[email protected]> [arm] > Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
This version works even with my configuration. Feel free to add Tested-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Best Regards, Petr

