From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>,
paulmck@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/nmi_backtrace: print out the CPUs which fail to respond to NMI
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 10:06:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ahAOi-XS63pWpOPG@pathway.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260521205326.06557d667beab85a21fd0a6f@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu 2026-05-21 20:53:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 22 May 2026 09:46:26 +0800 Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> > > It's a nitpick, but
> > >
> > > : /* Wait for up to 10 seconds for all CPUs to do the backtrace */
> > > : for (i = 0; i < 10 * 1000; i++) {
> > > : if (cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask)))
> > > : break;
> > > : mdelay(1);
> > > : touch_softlockup_watchdog();
> > > : }
> > > :
> > > : if (!cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask))) {
> > > : pr_warn("After 10 seconds, these CPUS still haven't responded to the NMI: %*pbl\n",
> > >
> > > Here we're hard-coding "10" in two places and in a comment. It would
> > > be nicer to do
> > >
> > > #define FOO_TIMEOUT 10
> > >
> > > then use that throughout.
> > >
> > > (bonus points for figuring out how to paste that "10" into the
> > > pr_warn() control string rather than using %d!)
> >
> > How about this followon patch?
>
> Looks great. But you missed the fun part!
>
> --- a/lib/nmi_backtrace.c~lib-nmi_backtrace-print-out-the-cpus-which-fail-to-respond-to-nmi-fix-fix
> +++ a/lib/nmi_backtrace.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
> #include <linux/cpumask.h>
> #include <linux/delay.h>
> #include <linux/kprobes.h>
> +#include <linux/stringify.h>
> #include <linux/nmi.h>
> #include <linux/cpu.h>
> #include <linux/sched/debug.h>
> @@ -79,8 +80,8 @@ void nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(const
> }
>
> if (!cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask))) {
> - pr_warn("After %d seconds, these CPUS still haven't responded to the NMI: %*pbl\n",
> - NMI_BT_TIMEOUT_SEC, cpumask_pr_args(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask)));
> + pr_warn("After " __stringify(NMI_BT_TIMEOUT_SEC) " seconds, these CPUS still haven't responded to the NMI: %*pbl\n",
> + cpumask_pr_args(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask)));
>
> nmi_backtrace_stall_check(to_cpumask(backtrace_mask));
> }
> _
With all the followup fixes, LGTM:
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Best Regards,
Petr
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-22 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-21 3:03 Feng Tang
2026-05-21 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2026-05-22 1:46 ` Feng Tang
2026-05-22 3:53 ` Andrew Morton
2026-05-22 5:02 ` Feng Tang
2026-05-22 8:06 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
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