[Crash-utility] [PATCH] Use only tasks on online CPUs for bt -a

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Mon Apr 26 17:53:52 UTC 2010


----- "Michael Holzheu" <holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
> 
> On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 11:56 -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > Sorry -- I take it back.  Running a test shows that it breaks "bt -a"
> > on Xen dumpfiles where the cpus are marked offline prior to dumping
> > the kernel memory.
> > 
> > I think this should be moved to the processor-specific backtrace functions,
> > which can just display "OFFLINE" or something to that effect.
> 
> Ok, fine. What about the following...

That's good -- queued for the next release.

Thanks,
  Dave

> ---
>  s390.c  |    5 +++++
>  s390x.c |    5 +++++
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/s390.c
> +++ b/s390.c
> @@ -603,11 +603,16 @@ s390_back_trace_cmd(struct bt_info *bt)
>  	unsigned long async_start = 0, async_end = 0;
>  	unsigned long panic_start = 0, panic_end = 0;
>  	unsigned long stack_end, stack_start, stack_base;
> +	int cpu = bt->tc->processor;
>  
>  	if (bt->hp && bt->hp->eip) {
>  		error(WARNING,
>  		"instruction pointer argument ignored on this architecture!\n");
>  	}
> +	if (is_task_active(bt->task) && (!(kt->cpu_flags[cpu] & ONLINE))) {
> +		fprintf(fp, " CPU offline\n");
> +		return;
> +	}
>  	ksp = bt->stkptr;
>  
>  	/* print lowcore and get async stack when task has cpu */
> --- a/s390x.c
> +++ b/s390x.c
> @@ -836,11 +836,16 @@ s390x_back_trace_cmd(struct bt_info *bt)
>  	unsigned long panic_start = 0, panic_end = 0;
>  	unsigned long stack_end, stack_start, stack_base;
>  	unsigned long r14;
> +	int cpu = bt->tc->processor;
>  
>  	if (bt->hp && bt->hp->eip) {
>  		error(WARNING,
>  	        "instruction pointer argument ignored on this
> architecture!\n");
>  	}
> +	if (is_task_active(bt->task) && (!(kt->cpu_flags[cpu] & ONLINE))) {
> +		fprintf(fp, " CPU offline\n");
> +		return;
> +	}
>  	ksp = bt->stkptr;
>  
>  	/* print lowcore and get async stack when task has cpu */




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