The rcu_dump_cpu_stacks() holds the leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock when dumping the stakcks of any CPUs stalling the current grace period. This lock is held to prevent confusion that would otherwise occur when the stalled CPU reported its quiescent state (and then went on to do unrelated things) just as the backtrace NMI was heading towards it.
This has worked well, but on larger systems has recently been observed to cause severe lock contention resulting in CSD-lock stalls and other general unhappiness. This commit therefore does printk_deferred_enter() before acquiring the lock and printk_deferred_exit() after releasing it, thus deferring the overhead of actually outputting the stack trace out of that lock's critical section. Reported-by: Rik van Riel <r...@surriel.com> Suggested-by: Rik van Riel <r...@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@kernel.org> --- kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h index cf8e5c6ed50ac..2fb40ec4b2aea 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h @@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ static void rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(void) struct rcu_node *rnp; rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rnp) { + printk_deferred_enter(); raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node(rnp, flags); for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu(rnp, cpu) if (rnp->qsmask & leaf_node_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu)) { @@ -380,6 +381,7 @@ static void rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(void) dump_cpu_task(cpu); } raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags); + printk_deferred_exit(); } } -- 2.40.1